iFixit Shares Mac Pro Uncasing and First Impressions

[redheeler]

My gold standard for a well run tech website is ArsTechnica.

Take a minute and pick out an article of interest to you and read its discussion thread.

The quality of the responses is several orders of magnitude above the dross here at MacRumors, plus they have effective comment sort options that allow the reader to quickly filter out the troll-o-sphere.

I learn more about current tech in one visit to ArsTechnica than I have in the past decade here at MacRumors.

This is an Apple-focused site. People have strong opinions regarding Apple. Not sure what else to expect.

Oh, and here's a nice top comment from the site you linked:

"I love the fact that you can also grate your cheese for nachos at your desk"

The cheese grater jokes are so overused and not funny, wonder why the mods there haven't deleted it. What a haven for trolls.

 

[diipii]

It looks like this computer is destined to be the focus of everything that is silly and precious about the Appleverse and the comic book characters who buy them.

 

[Abazigal]

If you think MacRumors is a haven for trolls, then you clearly haven't been to many other sites on the internet...

I can understand a website like Linustechtips or the android subreddit being biased towards Apple because they wouldn’t understand Apple as well. So if they think that Apple is turning into a services company, or is removing the headphone jack to sell more adapters and wireless earbuds, or some other misguided notion based on a fundamental lack of understanding as to how Apple’s design-led corporate culture works, I won’t hold it against them.

I would expect the people at macrumours to be more enlightened in this regard. After all, many people here claim to be long-time Apple fanboys who have been using their products the longest, and so you would expect them to understand Apple the best, yet the picture I am seeing is the exact opposite.

Dismaying to say the very least.

 

[bobob]

Not sure what else to expect.

Glad to hear you're satisfied with the level of discourse here.

 

[RimasM]

iFixit's workflow for this video:

Step 1-- Decide on a clickbait thumbnail

Step 2-- Content for the video:
???????????????

Step 3: Publish!

🤪

4. Profit 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[Lalatoon]

What they did with the cheese was funny but Apple fans hating iFixit for it is much more funnier. This kind of attitude is really amazing.

 

[nikaru]

Two girls that appear to not have a clue. Sitting on the floor like if playing with dools. iFixit should get a bit more professional about this type of content. Lame.

 

[Kabeyun]

If you think MacRumors is a haven for trolls, then you clearly haven't been to many other sites on the internet...

MR threads don’t get better by lowering the bar.

 

[Tech198]

Looks kinda spacey inside too.

 

[newyorksole]

So why are you laughing?

Laughing at the people that think it’s funny.
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I dunno. I guess it's different for everyone. I'd simply call it being a little goofy and feeling/expressing a little joy. And not giving two trucks what others think. LIfe's much to short to take everything seriously.

There’s goofy and then there’s running a joke into the ground. Idc what anyone thinks. We’re just all here expressing our opinions Lol. We agree and we disagree.

 

[Keebler]

If I go to Apple's landing page, I miss all the moaning and whining on MR about cheese on a computer. One would be forgiven for thinking iFixit was clubbing baby seals. I mean we got somebody claiming a computer was disrespected and another trotting out the feed the poor tired trope. People are unnecessarily up in their feels.

lol Well said! Sadly 'tis the world we live in where everyone is offended by someone or something. If someone doesn't like this computer or the price, it's fairly simple - don't buy it. Minds just hurt understanding that one

 

[ArrayDecay]

That thumbnail makes me want to cut the cheese, not grate it.

 

[az431]

The overall mood of this thread:
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iFixit triggered the heck out of MR commenters.

Is there anything that doesn't? Even Apple donating money to the Red Cross triggers anger.

 

[Kabeyun]

Faux-outrage makes people say crazy things.

The pitiful part is that to them it’s authentic outrage.

 

[Macpro2019]

I like how this mac pro would "cheese grate" complainers' self esteem when they know they wanted one but couldn't afford it

 

[citysnaps]

Two girls that appear to not have a clue. Sitting on the floor like if playing with dools. iFixit should get a bit more professional about this type of content. Lame.

People having zero capacity for a bit of joy and levity in their lives should try and not take themselves so seriously and find some happiness.
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The pitiful part is that to them it’s authentic outrage.

Spot on. It's the internet today.

With a lot of very unhappy people not feeling good about themselves and where they are in life. And mustering up some super-aggrandized outrage gives them a tiny bit of power that's otherwise lacking in their lives. For the next 30 minutes.

 

[Onelifenofear]

actually grating cheese on the mac pro is such a weird flex. really unnecessary.

people that say weird flex is such a weird flex.
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I kinda hate iFixit.

We get you disagree with the “repair-ability” of Apple products, and yes, some things shouldn’t be soldered onto motherboards as it is hostile to consumers and a money grab by a company that is at the premium end of the market and doesn’t need to pull such tacky schemes.

But a low repair-ability score on AirPods? This is foolish and annoying. The sealed case and soldering is inherent nature of the product.

I just think iFixit have an anti-Apple agenda which is both philosophical and driven by revenue and page views.

or they are just giving something a score based on it’s ability to fix. There reason for being is to give a score out of 10. To not do that is pointless.

 

[B4U]

I see a mac, and some cheese in the thumbnail.
Guess this video is about mac & cheese?

 

[borntrouble]

Good lord, what have we become.

 

[sgtaylor5]

So long as iFixit cleans the cheese off of that Mac Pro, I'm fine with it all. It's just a video.

 

[lunarworks]

People having zero capacity for a bit of joy and levity in their lives should try and not take themselves so seriously and find some happiness.
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With a lot of very unhappy people not feeling good about themselves and where they are in life. And mustering up some super-aggrandized outrage gives them a tiny bit of power that's otherwise lacking in their lives. For the next 30 minutes.

This community is one of the most joyless and miserable communities I've ever been a member of, and I've been on the net since 1995. It's getting as bad as newspaper comments sections. It's actually pretty unreal, and I honestly wonder how it got this way.

Just last week I had someone tell me that Apple should ditch anything it produces for creativity, because no one wants to use their hardware for creativity, and I was like... Apple was FOUNDED on creativity.

 

[BigDO]

Vapid video from an irrelevant site.

 

[redheeler]

I can understand a website like Linustechtips or the android subreddit being biased towards Apple because they wouldn’t understand Apple as well. So if they think that Apple is turning into a services company, or is removing the headphone jack to sell more adapters and wireless earbuds, or some other misguided notion based on a fundamental lack of understanding as to how Apple’s design-led corporate culture works, I won’t hold it against them.

I would expect the people at macrumours to be more enlightened in this regard. After all, many people here claim to be long-time Apple fanboys who have been using their products the longest, and so you would expect them to understand Apple the best, yet the picture I am seeing is the exact opposite.

Dismaying to say the very least.

It took Apple three years to stop selling flagship MacBook Pros with a flawed keyboard and cooling system, four years to update the Mac mini, and six years to update the Mac Pro to a model with a price tag that is rudely shoving a lot of long-time tower Mac users out the door. On top of that, Apple discontinued the AirPort line (which many members of this forum have praised, myself included), has yet to introduce an Apple-branded and consumer-focused 5K display, and ruined MacOS Server. So of course people, long-time Mac users especially, are going to complain about the direction of the company. It has changed, with consequences that are not hypothetical, not made-up - they are real.

 

[boswald]

Am I the only one who's tired of the cheese grater jokes?

 

[brdeveloper]

It's funny reading people feeling like joking about Apple products is like doing a personal insult against themselves. Come on... we all love Apple products, but feeling offended because someone grated cheese on a Mac case is more than reasonable brandism (or perhaps brand nationalism). Really don't know the reason. Four or five years ago Samsung and Windows trolls used to invade this forum and make all sort of jokes against Apple. We then returned the insults and everything was back to the normal. Let's now grate carrots and beets.