Q: What is the point if a mid-tower when Macs are not made for hardware customization?
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Q: What is the point if a mid-tower when Macs are not made for hardware customization?
So why does an application icon that already appears on the dock, get listed in the Launchpad grid again?
Shouldn't it work like this: (excuse the horrible Preview.app work)
Just like on iOS?!
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Well obviously it would be hardware approved by Apple. Think of a mid-tower like a Mac Pro but half the size.
bring on the ios scrollbars, and transparent title bars please. that looks so 1994 on the macs.
quote of the century. wait til windows 8 breaks compatibility with tons of apps you'll realize all the legacy crap thats been in windows all those years
Point: Mac Pro's are made for customization. A mid-tower would use a non-Server/Xeon based Intel Processor, but a faster chip than the current iMac's. It would allow for the same customization of graphics, optical and HDD's as a Mac Pro w/o costing a fortune. This was what the PowerMac used to be until Intel became the processor of choice for Apple.
Basically, a ~$1500-2500 tower depending on customization that would suite professionals very well without being an over-extended Server based Mac Pro.
This would leave two options for Mac consumers:
1. An all in one iMac that is not expandable/upgradable but would suite the needs of the average consumer
2. A mid-range tower that is customizable without Xeon processors (perhaps a smaller shell) and would allow professionals to utilize their own displays or Apple displays should they develop a full range professional display line
3. A Mac Pro for workstation, heavy hitters who need serious power where money isn't a factor
Many professionals have been begging Apple to produce 2.
You my friend have just 100% summed up what I was thinking...
I already uninstalled the Mac App store from my 2 Macs (I don't want Apple to cheat out developers out of their revenue).
I've purchased 5 Macs over the last 7-8 years, and I've already more or less concluded that my next compter won't be made by Apple... Like you, the math doesn't make much sense anymore, and if Apple turns the Mac into an idevice, it'll just make the value proposition that much worst.
Very very sad....
I already uninstalled the Mac App store from my 2 Macs (I don't want Apple to cheat out developers out of their revenue).
I've purchased 5 Macs over the last 7-8 years, and I've already more or less concluded that my next compter won't be made by Apple... Like you, the math doesn't make much sense anymore, and if Apple turns the Mac into an idevice, it'll just make the value proposition that much worst.
Very very sad....
So why does an application icon that already appears on the dock, get listed in the Launchpad grid again?
Shouldn't it work like this: (excuse the horrible Preview.app work)
Just like on iOS?!
I rather have a launchpad then a folder or many folders full of apps.
Just the application folder to me is getting annoying but maybe is just me.
So why does an application icon that already appears on the dock, get listed in the Launchpad grid again?
Shouldn't it work like this: (excuse the horrible Preview.app work)
Just like on iOS?!
I can think of two reasons off the bat.
1) consistency of user experience. If you delete the active ones do the others way or stay in the same place?
2)Multiple App instances. I'm sure anyone else can a test to this big complex software always has bugs you manage to find at the worse possible time and mostly for some reason just after you've opened a file from a different project to do something quick while forgetting to save the mainline project. Bang crash both lots of work gone back to the last save/backup. Having an instance of say my CAD program for each project then problem solved, plus opens some really cool options for organising your work. Like Mission control would cluster the open files for each project together. I could sleep an app configured just for that project and come back to it at any time like I never left. Then I'd want page for Mission Control so each page would collect the all the app and files for that project.
Sorry getting carried away yes I realise multiple instance thing is well old but it's just always seemed more trouble than it's worth but with what we know of Lion I can know see it could really be of value.
I'm going to date myself by saying I had a "copy" of AutoCAD last time it was on the Mac. I wasn't a big fan then and still not convinced what all the hype was about the Mac has always had better options. I also had a license for a Mac based CAD program which suited me much better and had me productive in short amount of time. So Mac's have been a part of my productivity since 4xCD drives.
Also still also amused by this idea that iOS is just for consuming, Look at all the really cool stuff that is there already for the iPad. Every productive person I know keeps looking at that platform and wishing for that day it's tied in to there work horse to open up new productive options.
No. They are most certainly not made for customization. They are work stations. You get the configuration for the job and you stick with it.
And sadly the market for that is nearly gone. There are consumers, iMac or Mac mini users, and professionals, Mac Pro users.
That would cut into Mac Pro sales.
Not really, the gap is one of the reasons that Mac Pro sales are off so badly. Even amongst professionals (people using the Mac for the generation of income or as a work machine...however you want to call it), not everyone needs a full blown "work station" that costs $10K whether it is a Mac or a PC.
Even amongst professionals, the multi-core, multi-CPU machines are falling into disfavor because much of software being used simply does not make effective use of the hardware. It can be a little like driving a half million dollar Cobra in 30 mph city traffic and then complaining that it overheats and 'makes tea' (boils over).
I can tell you that photoshop web sites are moving away from recommending Mac Pros for the majority of (professional) photoshop users simply because of the mismatch of actual performance of available hardware configurations.
All this is on top of the Adobe's delays in bringing 64-bit Photoshop to the Mac Platform which caused quite a few defections to the PC Platform which are unlikely to come back, if at all, until their hardware is in need of replacement again.