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How many people in this forum stayed with Apple or left?

Are you staying with Apple or did you leave?

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pat500000

pat500000

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I'm curious as to how many of us in here left/stayed/or using both mac and pc.
Based on seeing people in here talking about GPU and other stuff like ventilation/design and etc...
Since I don't see much people talking about actual rumors relating to mac pro 2016, I just want to test the water and see where people are at for the moment.

Edit: ignore the yes and no part and please read the remaining part of the answer.
Just a reminder: "till I die" is extreme loyalty and "no matter the situation" is lesser situation...the ones who have potential to seek pc computers.
 
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I suspect that in this poll there will be more trolling than "real" answers.
 
brand said:
Yes and Nope are not valid responses to the question Are you staying with apple or did you leave?
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Just humor me. I'm just testing this poll out.
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Morpheo said:
Always been a Mac user and always will be, even after I die. ;)




..."What's Mac Pro?". LOL
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When I put "till I die" I meant as in fanboi for life. The one with "no matter the situation" part is referring to loyal to Apple but isn't extreme.
 
i actually use both there is still some software that will not run on a mac like "creo" or "catia" and for smartphones i also use both.
 
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koyoot said:
I suspect that in this poll there will be more trolling than "real" answers.
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Even if there more trolling comments.. I'm just testing how far they are sticking with Apple.
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brand said:
Yes and Nope are not valid responses to the question Are you staying with apple or did you leave?
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Yeah I messed that up. I'm not sure if I can delete that.
 
brand said:
Yes and Nope are not valid responses to the question Are you staying with apple or did you leave?
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pat500000 said:
Even if there more trolling comments.. I'm just testing how far they are sticking with Apple.
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Yeah I messed that up. I'm not sure if I can delete that.
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That is exact reason why I said that there would be more trolling than anything.
 
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koyoot said:
I suspect that in this poll there will be more trolling than "real" answers.
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nah i don't think there will be more trolls than people with real answers after all this is an apple forum. so i think we will see more "
Nope, I'm with apple till the day I die" and "
nope, I'm with apple no matter the situation."

i put my money on it.
 
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I left Apple and bought a Graphics Heavy PC workstation for work

BUT I also just picked up a cheap dual CPU 4.1 as it was loaded with RAM (64Gb) had a decent PCIe SSD in it. and I had a spare GTX980 knocking around to give it a graphics boost.

And most importantly it was cheap!

Will I use it for work. Probably not unless the PC goes Titsup, but its there as a backup and I hated seeing the office without a great big Alu Doorstop in the corner.
 
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As a retired mechanical engineer and just an observer hobbyist builder I have great sympathy for those professionals stuck in the Apple ecosystem with few options for an upgrade path.

I have used about every OS under the sun including the Sun Unix workstation and after using OS X over the past three years I can appreciate the reliability and polish of the system but I can not appreciate solder and glue of most of the machines.

I hope Apple takes care of its' professionals but as an independent observer I think Apple bends you over and shoves it right up your ass.
 
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Crosscreek said:
As a retired mechanical engineer and just an observer hobbyist builder I have great sympathy for those professionals stuck in the Apple ecosystem with few options for an upgrade path.

I have used about every OS under the sun including the Sun Unix workstation and after using OS X over the past three years I can appreciate the reliability and polish of the system but I can not appreciate solder and glue of most of the machines.

I hope Apple takes care of its' professionals but as an independent observer I think Apple bends you over and shoves it right up your ass.
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It's disgraceful how the company treats Mac Pro users as of late.
 
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Yes, and a rmbp but I'm considering dumping it for an iPad when it finally kicks the can.
 
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I'm going to stick with the Mac as my interface until I stop using computers altogether. I still use remote servers running linux or some flavor of unix for large compute jobs, but the keyboard and screen will always be on macOS until I give it all up.
 
PC desktop and Macbook Pro combo works for me. I considered updating to a newer Mac Pro but ended up passing.
 
Pakaku said:
PC desktop and Macbook Pro combo works for me. I considered updating to a newer Mac Pro but ended up passing.
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I have rMBP and Minis. I had long ago a Mac Pro but find myself going down the path you are realizing presently. I just can't see Apple's "vision" where non iMac computers are concerned. I see for now, a PC in 2016 landing on my home office desk.
 
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I have a Hackintosh for my workstation (work and play) and an Apple laptop for travel. I still prefer Apple's laptops over other offerings, but I cannot have a workstation with limited upgradability.
 
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flat five said:
what's the difference between:

• I'm with Apple until the day I die
• I'm with Apple no matter the situation

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Day I die =Mac Pro extremist
No matter the situation= loyalist but have potential to switch to Pc.

Basically I'm describing it as level of loyalty to the company.

By the way...I like your new icon. Lol
 
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