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They would need to install Windows for product design.
Eisenhower? Hmm.
I don't think Cook would be building Interstate highways. Toll roads more like.
And new product innovation would consist of underground toll tunnels! No way for 'em to escape.
Apple's obsession with making computers ever thinner seems to have trumped all other considerations.
I prefer the MBA to the super-skinny Macbooks with butterfly keyboards, and I prefer the early 2015 MBP to the current MBP. I especially don't care for the butterfly keyboards.
I haven't figured out a good use case for the Touch Bar almost two years after its introduction. To me, Apple replaced something useful - the row of physical Fn buttons - with a gimmick. I hope the rest of you are having a better experience with it than me.
I like the form factor (weight and footprint) of the current Macbooks and MBPs, but that's about it.
For my use at home, I used to get a new MB/MBA/MBP every two years, and every new one was thrilling, and a joy to use. But I'm still on my early 2015 MBP. Everything Apple's released since then feels to me like a lateral move, at best.
My employer provided me with a late 2016 MBP with Touch Bar for use at work. To me, there's no joy in using it the way there was when I acquired new Mac computers prior to 2016.
I prefer the MBA to the super-skinny Macbooks with butterfly keyboards, and I prefer the early 2015 MBP to the current MBP. I especially don't care for the butterfly keyboards.
I haven't figured out a good use case for the Touch Bar almost two years after its introduction. To me, Apple replaced something useful - the row of physical Fn buttons - with a gimmick. I hope the rest of you are having a better experience with it than me.
I like the form factor (weight and footprint) of the current Macbooks and MBPs, but that's about it.
For my use at home, I used to get a new MB/MBA/MBP every two years, and every new one was thrilling, and a joy to use. But I'm still on my early 2015 MBP. Everything Apple's released since then feels to me like a lateral move, at best.
My employer provided me with a late 2016 MBP with Touch Bar for use at work. To me, there's no joy in using it the way there was when I acquired new Mac computers prior to 2016.
Apple keyboard is short (magic keyboard) and at first time pretty weird for me. The only keyboard i love is 1990 era PC IBM ..
OSX is idiot on memory management, the love cache ? To make it simple, buy more ram . On normal linux 4 GB is par enough to run an os.. In windows 8 GB is pure enough.. for MAC, you need average 8 ~ 16 GB to have normal linux 4GB and windows 8GB. The only way to free RAM in MAC, is to open all program simulative and close it .. Weird but it the true way.
What good about OSX ?
1. Lesser virus for me..
2. Just for work, never-less.
3. You can brag at big conference you have Apple Laptop
*** i only show off my ACER laptop ..
.. Because i buy imac for WORK not to show off.As the owner and daily user of a Series 1 Apple Watch, I can reliably inform you of the FACT you are totally and utterly Wrong! It is not slow or horrible to use in the slightest and has got faster and faster with each OS update. So sorry to burst your opinionated bubble on this one but it is a totally incorrect opinion.
Eisenhower? Hmm.
I don't think Cook would be building Interstate highways. Toll roads more like.
And new product innovation would consist of underground toll tunnels! No way for 'em to escape.
https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/impact-and-legacy
You don’t have to be seen to be doing something to actually be doing something. Tim is the steady hand that Apple needs at this point in time.
Well, my entire ecosystem is Apple, maybe if they stop making good Macs I’ll try diferent ecosystem entirely...
Their loss if some people thinks alike...
Their loss if some people thinks alike...
Cook seems to forget that most iPhone users are also Mac users. Without the Mac there’s less incentive to buy an iPhone.
Agree 100 percent, though to be fair, the reason Apple is on the verge of being a trillion dollar company is...iPhone.
Almost 500 comments for a serious article that dropped on a Friday (buried with the rest of the weekend news).
If this dropped on a Tuesday the MSM might have covered it.
I await Apple's PR spin next week. "We love the Mac, we'll update it once sometime this century", etc.
If this dropped on a Tuesday the MSM might have covered it.
I await Apple's PR spin next week. "We love the Mac, we'll update it once sometime this century", etc.
Is slipping? They’ve completely fallen over.
For 30 plus years, I used nothing but Apple computers. Last December I gave up waiting for Apple to offer a user upgradable computer; and built my own 8-core 7820x Capture One Pro photo editing Windows 10 workstation for $1,950. It has plenty of internal storage, data ports and good ventilation to keep everything cool.
I don’t regret it one bit, and I’m wildly happy I no longer feel handcuffed by Apple’s lack of interest in their desktop computers. If Apple didn’t chince out on ports and limiting their MBP to 16GB of ram, I might have considered that as an option.
The only computer that Apple could offer now that will tempt me back is a triple height Mac Mini (mini tower) with the 6-core 8700k, up to 64GB of user upgradable Ram, user upgradable dual NVMe slots, 8GB Radeon RX 580, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and 4 USB-C ports. ...for $1,600 USD.
That’s a photographer and graphic designer dream machine, and I have zero hope it will ever happen. Apple would rather have Windows/Intel cannibalize Apple’s product line-up than cannibalizing their own iMac line-up.
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Rogue Amoeba developer Quentin Carnicelli, who works on Mac software like Airfoil, Audio Highjack, Loopback, and Fission, this week penned a critique of Apple's Mac lineup and the company's recent lack of Mac updates, and that missive has been gaining some attention from Mac fans.
Using MacRumors' own Buyer's Guide, Carnicelli points out that it's been more than a year since any Mac, with the exception of the iMac Pro, has been updated.
It's been 375 days, for example, since the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air machines were last updated, and it's been 437 days since the Mac Pro saw the price drop Apple implemented as it works on a Mac Pro replacement.
The Mac Pro has not seen a hardware update since December of 2013, more than 1600 days ago. Apple has promised its professional users that a high-end high-throughput modular Mac Pro system is in the works, but we thus far have no details on when it might see a release.
The Mac mini, Apple's most affordable desktop Mac, has gone 1338 days without an update, with the last refresh introduced in October of 2014. While Apple has made promises about a refreshed Mac Pro, no similar statement has been provided about a future Mac mini, aside from a comment from Apple CEO Tim Cook stating that the Mac mini continues to be important to Apple.
According to Carnicelli, the state of the Mac lineup is "deeply worrisome" to him as a person who works for a Mac-based software company. Customers are, he says, forced to choose between "purchasing new computers that are actually years old" or "holding out in the faint hope that hardware updates are still to come."As Carnicelli points out, Apple could reassure its Mac users with updates and speed bumps to its Mac lineup on a "much more frequent basis," calling the current lack of updates "baffling and frightening to anyone who depends on the platform for their livelihood."
Apple in 2017 refreshed much of its Mac lineup (iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and MacBook) at its Worldwide Developers Conference, but this year, Apple opted to focus instead on software, with no new Mac hardware announced. With no new hardware in June, based on past release history, we could be looking at an 18-month upgrade cycle this time around, as pointed out by iMore's Rene Ritchie, with new Macs making an appearance in September or October.
Some of the blame for Apple's lack of updates can perhaps be placed on its reliance on Intel, and in the past, some Mac refreshes have been pushed back due to delays with Intel chips. This is likely one of the reasons why Apple is planning to transition from Intel chips to its own custom made Mac chips as early as 2020.
MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, and MacBook Air upgrades are not in the dire state that Mac Pro and Mac mini upgrades are in, but increased attention on issues with the MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards has left Apple customers eager to see those machine updated, especially as Apple has not acknowledged these keyboard issues despite their prevalence in the media.
"Apple needs to publicly show their commitment to the full Macintosh hardware line and they need to do it now," writes Carnicelli.
Carnicelli's comments on the state of the Mac lineup came just before Apple released a new Mac advertising campaign. Called "Behind the Mac," the campaign highlights creators who use their Macs to "make something wonderful."
The first ad spots in the series focus on photographer and disability advocate Bruce Hall, who uses his Mac for editing photographs, musician Grimes, who uses the Mac "from start to finish" to write all of her music, edit music videos, and more, and app developer Peter Kariuki who used his Mac to code the SafeMotos app, which is designed to connect passengers with safe motorcycle drivers in Rwanda.
These ads, while inspiring, may be seen as too little too late by those who have grown frustrated with Apple's Mac lineup and have come to see the lack of updates as an indicator of a lack of commitment to the Mac.
Article Link: Popular Mac Developer Slams Apple for 'Sad State of Macintosh Hardware'
Thank you Mr. Carnicelli. That was spot on.
Im patiently waiting for the mac pro. Either that or I will build an x299 hackintosh.
What, exactly, is "this point in time"? Steve's been dead almost seven years.
A steady hand was good seven years ago. Continuity. I get it.
But now? Seems like an effortless way to coast into irrelevance.
You seem to be confused. -I- have not praised Steve Jobs. -You- are impugning a "noble motivation" that was really nothing more than marketing-speak. The original Macintosh was designed that way to make it virtually impossible to upgrade (although RAM upgrades were possible if you had that long T-wrench - and I did). How can you ignore Jobs' statement when GC made the first internal HD for the Mac? "That's impossible; we made sure that couldn't be done."
I don’t know a single company that has or is planning to replace their computers with iGadgets.
They are good for what they are. They make good performing chips for a good price. But NVIDIA and Intel still beat them in all out performance. And AMD's solution to CPU performance is throwing cores at the problem like Intel was throwing clockspeed at the problem back in the Pentium 4 days. Intel's architecture is superior and AMD can't touch Intel's single threaded performance.
Here's how Apple rules the world:
Hardware is a commodity. MacOS is a superior operating system. Release it to the world so that anyone can buy a copy and install it on their own PC, ala Hackintoshing. Game over.
Hardware is a commodity. MacOS is a superior operating system. Release it to the world so that anyone can buy a copy and install it on their own PC, ala Hackintoshing. Game over.
That's one nice thing abut Windows - you can basically build your own and don't have to wait for a company to give you exactly what you need.
The integration between Mac hardware and software is one of it's greatest strengths. I have no desire to get back into the compatability nightmare that is PCs.
It's about time the Mac users community stood up and told Mr. Tim Cook his Apple computers stink. I have been an Apple Mac platform user since they first came out with the home computer back in 1979. My first Apple was the Apple II that was actually an Apple I with 8k of memory and no ROM auto-start and the old 6502 machine running DOS or a version of it. It was exciting to use this new technology and had the love and craving to want to explore what makes it work. However they have killed that creative feeling off with their crappy marketing of endless useless apps. I don't know how again Apple Board without a visionary the likes of Steven Jobs ends up failing. Tim Cook is just another billionaire focused totally on Stock price not the products except for the iphone and iOS thinking that all anyone wants today. Their companies decision to close off the computers to end users is total crap and they deliberately engineer or lack of good engineering build these system to prevent any and all end users allowed to change out parts for third party and they do so by making it near impossible to gain access even to install a new HD the end user risk damaging his equipment and or void their subsidized warranty. These days it takes a Class Action Lawsuit to get Apple to stop some of their protectionist practices. This will harm their user base eventually and diminished the platform. Is Apples ability to create and invent become so stale that they need to prevent end users from opening their systems and seeing what's inside. I currently have an Apple iMac 27 2011 machine I paid 3000 for install 32 gigs of ram and changed out the HD for a larger 2 terabyte. But it came at a cost since opening up the machine case and seeing how pathetic it is to just swap out a HD the flat ribbon cables that if you sneeze when removing they you risk damage. When I went to an Apple store to see the existing line of computer I became depressed and told the sales women what I though. See responded back by saying that " People today don't care about upgrading they just want a machine that Surfs the Web". I just shook my head.
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While we all would like to see new Apple hardware, including those mention plus a new Cinema Display, we tend to forget that Apple makes over 80% of its hardware revenue from iOS devices, so they're not incline to worry so much about the other hardware. I do think this fall will bring a lot of new hardware in addition to new iPhones/iPads.
Never going to happen. Final Cut Pro is optimized for AMD.
AMD’s Ryzen2 line-up has closed the gap quite a bit with single core performance.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...erformance-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1136/
Will be interesting to see what Intel launches later this year, when AMD is finally pushing back with legit CPU offerings a LOT of people seem to love.
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