Even if it's 1%, at 6.5 million subscribers that's 65,000 mac pro sales.
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Even if it's 1%, at 6.5 million subscribers that's 65,000 mac pro sales.
A popular TechTuber who makes a living with their Mac will be very happy to spend some of their hundreds of thousands or millions on Apple’s newly released Mac Pro. But if they’re a smaller celebrity, they probably won’t make enough from YouTube to afford it.
Wow, you are really bitter, aren't you? Those reviews aren't for you. If you're buying a Mac Pro you already know what you need and a video review isn't going to change your mind. These videos are for consumers the same way that Bugatti lends a $3.5 million Chiron to Motor Trend for a review. It costs them the cost of shipping. It's to build brand awareness and sell a few iMacs and Macbook Airs. Everyone does it, and it works. That's the benefit. But you know that.
These youtube reviewers are pros in every sense of the word, even if you don't like the content they produce. She literally sat there on video editing for hours. What else do you want from a pro? As for the value of the insignificant followers, she probably pulled in five figures with that video alone because people that aren't arrogant and bitter like her and everyone else that got one.
If you don’t want or need MacOS, you can probably save money buying a PC. That’s been true for decades.
That said, Lenovo, Dell and HP all have Xeon workstations that costs in excess of $100k. There’s a reason people buy them, but it doesn’t sound like it’s anything you personally need. But others do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
very well said.
as a long time apple fan, the rabid ´bois are the worse thing to ever happen to others that simply love technology and its usefulness.
the lack of any logical thinking, , unlike you, is what puts me off of these days.
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That’s nothing. In Hong Kong it starts at $45,999!!!
What you call trashing is actually bursting the fantasy world that the rabid fanbois love to live in.
are you seriously expecting that nobody should say anything about apple insane price gouging, like asking 400 for small wheels on a computer that starts at 6K?
Of course not. Many have less experience than the TechTubers they’re raging against. They have no understanding of why pros buy machines like this.
ooohhh, so edgy!
seriously, none of the mainstream OS´s are perfect, neither magical.
Pro: With this Mac Pro, I can bill an extra $2,000 a month.
Non-pro: but but but $400 wheels
Pro: This XDR monitor saved me $15,000 compared to the competition.
Non-pro: but but but $1,000 stand
Xeon workstations exist for a reason. Lenovo, Dell and HP all make them too, and some cost more than $100,000.
They’re not for you, but I’m assuming you’re very upset with those machines as well.
Could they use Thunderbolt with AMD? I thought that’s Intel.....
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Exactly. This machine is not meant to be purchased from your personal checking account, just like front row Lakers tickets and NFL skyboxes aren’t. These are all corporate purchases and they are priced accordingly.
its not that hard, guys.
I have seen my fair share of criticism surrounding Apple since I joined the ecosystem in 2011.
Time has a way of proving the haters wrong.
Not really the point. The Mac Pro is both a super high end machine and also something to be used to show off Apple's engineering prowess, not unlike the super high end cars of mass-market auto brands.
Sure, it's demanding. Practical? No.
Last year RED revealed that they had worked with nVidia to optimize Redcode for decode on RTX cards, so you really just need a 2080ti or above for smooth playback, and you can get more performance with multi-GPU. I think the SDK has already been integrated into Resolve as RED released it in April. Also, the size of files doesn't really matter so much in this case. The highest data rate on any of the DSMC2 bodies is 300MB/s—that would be realtime. Unless the 8K bodies are different than my RED they all record files in 4GB chunks anyway.
I suppose if you want to realtime switch 8K multicam in an edit the Mac Pro could do that well, not that anyone in their right mind would actually do that, but it could. Youtubers going overkill on a multicam 8K shoot is more ridiculous and spectacle than a real workflow though. Hell, most films are shot around 4.5K or less these days on Alexa Mini.
I don’t know who those people are, because pros certainly use stands. Those who need one will buy one.
I suppose Apple could have included the vesa mount in the box and charged $5,200 for the monitor, just as they could have included the stand and simply priced the monitor at $6,000.
But doesn’t it just make more sense for someone to buy the one they need, since you can’t use both at once. Otherwise, you’re paying extra for something you’re just going to toss in a closet.
What's there to defend?
If you are already using a reference monitor in a studio, chances are that it's already attached to a VESA mount. In this case, you don't need to do anything more; the monitor is ready to use out of the box as is.
If you know you need a stand or a VESA mount, then simply purchase one together with the monitor. If you elect not to buy a stand knowing fully well that you need one or because you think it will give you ammo to complain about it online, I think that says more about the buyer than anything else.
Even with the stand, the final price is $6k, way less than the $43000 monitor it was designed to replace.
Still a steal either way.
Since the majority of comments here are sniping at those accessories, she clearly identified a target segment.
Already making my 16 inch MacBook Pro look bad...I'm waiting for an updated iMac Pro though- I'm ready to upgrade from my 2015.
A notebook from the same generation is normally always slower than desktop.
So now we are critiquing their business practices? Are you serious? That's totally off base. Who cares WHY they have the workflow, or how they could do it more affordably or more practically? You can find fault with anything. The point is, they edit 8K video all the time and produce hours of content every month. They are the definition of the types of creators that can use and afford these machines and Apple was right to send them review machines.
At least they use them the way they are intended. Remember the days when early access went to guys like Walt Mossberg and David Pogue who wouldn't do anything more taxing than loading Safari and MS Word?
So watch that instead. I don't see iJustine holding a pink (cmon, you know it would be pink...) gun to your head forcing you to watch her.
She is professional as well. 6+ million subscribers and Apple giving her 30,000$ worth of merchandise prove just that.
It's just that her target group is different that MKBHD's and I'm ok with that.
She is more sentimental, spontaneous and yes, naive. Fact is she's selling and that's what is all about.
No one said MacOS is perfect.
Far from that.
But still I prefer it, and I think windows is garbage.
I just popped over to YouTube and this review was waiting for me. This guy put the machine in the hands of audio pros. I can't wait to hear what complaints there are for this.