The real question is how many will be released before Jan/Feb when the majority of buyers receive them?
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Then you bought the wrong machine. You shoulda bought a gaming/office Windows PC, not a Mac workstation.
Leo
P.S. People also forget that Microsoft Office first appeared in a Mac, not Windows.
Thank you! Someone that realizes how impossible it is to do work on a Mac. Nothing even remotely resembling productivity software is available for OS X, and the only app that comes with OS X is Angry Birds. Maybe one day someone will create professional graphics and editing software for it! And if Apple is really lucky, Microsoft will make Office for OS X.
Nah, who am I kidding. My decision to use OS X obviously means I do jack-squat for a living, so I'll just be over here fiddling with my overpriced Angry Birds machine while important people do important things with vastly superior Windows machines.
Actually it's very reassuring, it means there's ongoing focused development in fixing problems, keep in mind that software is very complicated, it's practically impossible to release software with no bugs or problems.
I think they built a little more than just 7 units.
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Really?
Just buy a third party SSD and drop it in the other bay.
Oh wait, we're talking about the Mac Pro, not the Mac Mini. Sorry.
I can't help but think how sheltered these people are that are laughing at Apple releasing an update already. That's great. And they must not have had a situation yet where you are waiting on an update. Earlier this summer I bought an Asus G750 gaming laptop. I was headed back to school to take some AutoCad classes and figured a gaming laptop would run it about the best. Spent $1500 on the laptop, then upgraded the Ram to the full 32 Gb it would take and added a Samsung 512 Gb SSD to the second hard drive bay. It was a beast of a machine. And it ran great, when it was plugged in. The first couple weeks I had it, it just sat on my desk at home and was awesome. Then I had to take it to class and found out it's deep dark secret. Unplugged it would only run at .77 Ghz. I've had phone with faster processors. It was awful. I found the Asus forums and found out that it was a BIOS problem and we were all waiting on an update. These problems happen. It isn't an Apple thing. So it's good to see they are on top of it. There ended up being a BIOS update that solved the problem, but for 4 months I might as well have been lugging around a desktop looking for an outlet.
Victor
Victor
I'd definitely put windows on it, but how would games really perform on those workstation GPU's?
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Could just get an external HDD/SSD on one of the many thunderbolt ports? I mean isn't that what they are all for? Anyone that need such a powerful workstation obviously needs more than 256GB of disk space for any sort of work. even a big USB HDD would suffice for almost all storage in graphics or audio production. A 2TB USB HDD costs very little. I do mountains of audio production as a hobby. My teacher has a professional grade studio at his house with equipment worth €30'000+. He has a 2TB drive in his iMac 27" that runs it all, but still has multiple Firewire 800 drives all over the place! External drives are the norm in professional work. I think many consumers are not aware of this.
Even when he ran it off his old Power Mac G5 tower, he never added internal storage to one of the bays and instead opted for external solutions. It was easier for him as he wasn't very computer savvy but still needed to get the job done.
Windows 8.1 is no less friendly than Windows 7. :|
One good example is ... graphics drivers. You're likely to get quicker driver updates, and better ones. The machine I'm using is a good example. Intel graphics got OpenGL 4.1 support in December of last year while OS X only had a 3.3.
And don't get me started on how WiFi is actually faster on my Windows Partition.
I agree, we should all use our computers for what you want us to. You did pay for them after all.
I guess it depends on what 'business world' we're talking about. I get all my work done on the Mac. I installed Boot Camp to 'dick around' with Battlefield 4.
I'm glad that wonky perception exists though, as that always gives me another advantage over the competition.
Improves bits of Bootcamp?
Who on earth would sully this thing with a Windows boot partition?
Someone that also likes to game....
If the business requires it then the simple fact is they have not found the better and more cost effective solution for use within OS X. The solutions exist, just people are too lazy or stuck in their ways to go and find them.
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The Difference between the Onion and other news sources. The Onion admits it makes up the news and tries to make humour out of it. The rest deny the fact they make up news.
Normally this type of thing is a gross exaggeration; However, this time I wonder if it isn't close to being correct..
I hope you find many more opportunities to overcompensate for your self esteem issues in the future. Happy to help you feel bigger
Why not Windows 7? Or XP even.
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I probably play different games, resulting in me not needing Windows to launch any of them, but I can't stand the Windows MS Office. Where the **** did all the toolbars go?!
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Better for some things, and it depends on which OS you get. The one amazing thing Debian-based Linux has is apt-get. It makes we Mac users jealous.
I'm EXTREMELY disappointed at the newer versions of all the popular Linux OSs. I think the makers of the latest Ubuntu versions tried to copy Google Plus, Simple Finder, the Zune, the snuggie, Vista, and the Toyota Prius to make the most annoying OS ever while ruining the performance. Even LinuxMint has become slow on older computers and has a DVD-sized installation. They took the OSs made for nerds and tried to make them suitable for 10-year-old girls but failed even at that.
You really don't understand humour?
How sad.
Honestly, I would have thought it would have been obvious, but no... you have to spell it out or someone gets all sniffy about it.
For the record: I run a Windows partition on my Mac Pro and have done for years. As well as VMWare Fusion with countless different Windows VMs for various specified (and sometimes conflicting, hence different VMs) roles. I am subscriber to the (late lamented) Technet program. I actually DO understand why people would use Windows on a Mac because of the ubiquity of various de-facto industry standard software packages. It doesn't mean the situation has to escape humour though...
Sheesh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
It would be obvious if people didn't post the exact same thing here in complete seriousness. And people do all the time.
Let's not forget those of us who love Apple products now get routinely abused by those wielding Android devices. So yeah I tend to agree. But if we don't like it we leave it's as simple as that. The site has moved in a direction the owner and moderators are happy and comfortable with, and we have to accept that and make our own decisions.
You can't really be a pro-Apple person on here anymore and not cop a whole lot of abuse. But do the opposite on an Android forum or Windows site and you'll be booted off in no time.
New Mac Pro?
In the UK the 'New Look' Mac Pro looks more like a recepticle to recieve the ashes of a dead person - maybe that was the intention seeing as the Late Steve Jobs once thought of Mac Pro as a product ready for the scrap-yard!
Bad Humour is usually because of something that takes place when a 'Leading Light' of the Company (Apple) decides to roll back its good Apps to be replaced with 'Rotten Tomatoes.'
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Billy Trimble's reply concerning Bad Humour, I guess is valid, but seeing as I have a G4 Mac Pro and a G4 Imac (a decidedly inovative and well-designed Mac), as well as a Macbook Pro, I guess I too have a point when apps I buy for the latter Macbook Pro don't seem to verify the support it once did when 'Pages' and iWeb were great products to be proud of. Fortunately, I have a different view of my G4 PC Pro's than the current or not so current CEO of a Company that names after a fruit. Maybe the core is bad - but the shining exterior lives on!
In the UK the 'New Look' Mac Pro looks more like a recepticle to recieve the ashes of a dead person - maybe that was the intention seeing as the Late Steve Jobs once thought of Mac Pro as a product ready for the scrap-yard!
Bad Humour is usually because of something that takes place when a 'Leading Light' of the Company (Apple) decides to roll back its good Apps to be replaced with 'Rotten Tomatoes.'
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Billy Trimble's reply concerning Bad Humour, I guess is valid, but seeing as I have a G4 Mac Pro and a G4 Imac (a decidedly inovative and well-designed Mac), as well as a Macbook Pro, I guess I too have a point when apps I buy for the latter Macbook Pro don't seem to verify the support it once did when 'Pages' and iWeb were great products to be proud of. Fortunately, I have a different view of my G4 PC Pro's than the current or not so current CEO of a Company that names after a fruit. Maybe the core is bad - but the shining exterior lives on!