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Peperino,
I'll admit I've only been a music editor since 1999 starting with Yamaha Music and then many other companies and well known artists, so please excuse my lack of knowledge, skill, and real world use. I've only personally bought maybe 8-10 Macs since that time. I'm not a banker, but each one of us are xxx. LLC corp and that whether you see it that way or makes you a business owner. I'm not just an editor or engineer, first and foremost, I'm a musician who has earned his stripes. Together that constitutes the Kevin xxx company, whether I want it to be or not, although the most successful of them not just understand, they take it seriously. Look around you at successful businesses in general. Do you see them (other than Sears, and K Mart) trying to make old paradigms that everyone else passed up work? No, they are forward looking companies, who consider expenditures such as these (They'd consider this expenditure chump change in reality) a simple cap expenditure, (well for this they'd use Apple pay, click done) because you can't be like sears, and not invest in your future, unless you like where they're headed. for God's sakes, grow up and stop thinking with your little brain. If all you can do is find reasons not to succeed, then welcome to mediocrity, hope buying your formal wear at Wallmart, just makes you giggle with pride. Back more than a few decades ago, I bought two basses, which by garage band standards was Wow! That's so cool. I never cared what anyone thought of me, my only intention was to rise above, but I had not learned that you cannot rise, driving a moped to a Cadillac event. The night before our biggest gig at that time, we were rehearsing and my moped took a crap on me. Being frustrated because it wasn't the first time, in the middle of a song, I raised the instrument over my head and did a Pete Townsend with it, face down on the concrete, snapping the neck in half. (omg that act felt like the chains of prison were snapped right off me) The band was like wtf?? I was exhaling, free from that mediocrity around my neck. My best friend ask, "Kev, what are you going to do?" I looked at him and said, I'm not going do anything. WE, you and I are leaving first thing tomorrow morning and we're buying the instruments we deserve. No more excuses, and no more second class. That next morning he bought a '70 Les custom in all real gold and a 100 watt Marshall stack. I bought a '70 precision, and that killer Acoustic 360 amp and that monster folded bottom. We played all day, trying to get a feel but when we stepped on stage, they came alive, and the possibilities of our imagination became instantly real and expressed by the honesty and purity of the sounds. Hell we had just turned 18, lol without a lick of credit, but guess what? The music store's finance manager had seen us and knew us, and gave us that credit, because she knew this purchase wasn't about feeding our egos, it was about everything to do with expressing our music with a higher purpose and passion, which was evident in every note we played. WE obviously weren't the slumped shoulder trollops that shuffle their way through the gates at Guitargit, lol i.e. Guitar Center. But here's the lesson: You absolutely kill possibility, passion and dreams when you put negative, arbitrary limits on yourself and that s***s contagious to anyone who works with you or has to be in that place with you. Because whether you believe or not, those around know, and can feel those chains suffocating their own creativity.
There is a reason I don't talk about the Mac Pro specifically, and that is because $5,999 doesn't deserve a thread this long, but it speaks volumes about your character and whether you believe you can, or even want to succeed or not. I'd bet you my house, you'd fork that amount up for your idol's guitar on auction tho. It tells us where your priorities lie and how much we can trust you.
I spent a number of years managing the electronics test lab for NTS, one of the two largest labs the Military and NASA use for qualification, failure analysis, and engineering. This lab began in the garage of one of the three founders, cleaning satellite fuel tanks, in their Mil-spec certified clean room garage. They did what they needed to do and impressed these agencies, so much that they gave them enough work and bumped up the 3 man lab quotes so could buy a lab. That's what pursuing excellence by exceeding most others work ethics will get you. Fast forward to the mid 90's. These agencies and the president himself offered these two largest test labs a military base, fully functional...for one dollar. We got McClellan AFB in Sacramento, the only test facility on earth where you can stress test a fully functional 747, elevated by only the test rig, bending, stretching, twisting, you name it. For a buck! Now that is trust and faith in action. Why? Because knowing we could never afford that facility, but without a doubt knew we had the wherewithal and would succeed by our never accept failure attitude and the creativity it requires. Exactly what those agencies not just need, but require to minimize casualties from poor engineering. Btw, we were the lab the discovered the O ring in the '86 Space Shuttle disaster. Morton Thiokol as with anyone who manufactures mil grade or NASA parts are required to support the structure and also environmentally control their storage at 70 degrees, +/- 2, and 50% humidity +/- 2. We found the rings thrown in a pile in a shed without doors. See what small mindedness and greed get you, and cost others?
Raise the bar and quit thinking small even if you are right now, because businesses invest in the future not in the past dumb dumbs. I don't talk it, I live it. You might the wonder why I retired 11 years early
. It's your life and you alone are responsible for it. Clue...I didn't get here crying about the color of the sky, I created wings so that sky could lift and take me here, before the majority. Exchanging excuses for gratitude is the key. Just...get over yourselves, you're embarrassing to watch. We use less than 10% of our brains, it's possible to use more, it only requires believing. Yes toto, we gotta believe
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Tring to provide finance options is ridiculous. You sound like a banker more like an Apple user.
Is like, i use to buy a BMW, but now if you want to buy a Lamborghini you can finance it.
WE DO NOT NEED A LAMBORGHINI. We want an updated product that is intended to replace the old Mac Pro.
The new Mac Pro are replacing the server types, not the old Mac PRO.
Why would i want to buy an 18 wheeler truck if I only need a car?
Why do we need to be forced to buy a Lamborghini when we only want to buy a BMW?
"We want an updated product that is intended to replace the old Mac Pro." You actually mean, I don't want to improve or grow, and I'm whining cause Apple is pushing that possibility at me. It's not an 18 wheeler, it's just a car with a better engine and better options. If you want the same ole', buy the same ole. This ain't your grandmas Buick.
Edit: I can relate though. When Apple blacklisted my 9,1 iMac I was pissed, until I realized that Apple was just moving forward in tech. So I ordered a new iMac, and OMFG, I felt like a third grade school girl whining about my poor antiquated iMac. This new one just obliterates it. Am I crying now. Actually I'm singing it's praises and being very grateful for their push. Thank you Apple... Enough said.
