Apple doesn't want people like you using their laptops and promoting their brand. They want trend setters, they want the creative class. They want people who wear Elie Tahari jackets and sit in hotel lounges and coffee shops tapping away on MacBooks both in real life, and on the big screen. The creative class sets the standard for what the consumer class wants. By having the creative class on lock down, they create icons of cool who use Apple products; whether in music videos, tv shows, etc... and this makes people want to go out and buy iPhones, and iPads, and buy their media using iTunes.
They don't want to be known as a nerd platform; they'll take the hip web 2.0 founders and engineers, but not the magic nerds, the WoW players, and the guys who aren't at fashion events on Tuesday night and complimentary screenings on Thursday.
Now you may think this is offensive or closed minded, but its Apple's brand identity, and they have never tried to hide it since they went i with the first iMac others tend to project their idea of what Apple should be, or once was, but who's running the company. Black t-shirt steve jobs, not Woz.
What you think may be a big market, may only be 3-4000, in the country, maybe even in the world at most, maybe 50,000 is tiny. And they're not going to risk complicating their product line to support a class of user that is not their target market. It's the same way Fratelli Rosetti doesn't make a high end running shoe they don't care if you're running. It's not what they do. There are not that many people who spend 12k/year on laptops I mean, not even the best photographers in the world do that. And as part of their target market, I honestly can't imagine what anyone would need with a higher end graphics card. My performance limitation comments from my previous post stand. If you need the card and will plug it in to run it, I don't understand why you're on a Mac Laptop if you need robust mobile high end 3d visualization a Mac is the wrong device at least get a 17 and stick some custom silicon in the xpressport before you complain, or get on a Nehalem and use a portable graid.
Sure, when you create a false dilemma about WoW players versus film producers, sure, you've got more. But all of LA, all of NYC, and all of everyone who wants to be any of those people, is a huge market. When you take into account the entire ad industry, all of hollywood, all of the music, and entertainment industries, writers, producers, directors, editors, photographers, designers, etc.. not even close. You're talking about a global market in the hundreds of millions.
Just because you want to project your idea of what Apple could or should be, doesn't mean Apple has any responsibility to live up to it.
I think they're just fine, my bank account thinks their stock price is doing just fine, and the entire world seems to think they have their **** together.
I don't think SJ is losing any sleep about his choice in graphics cards, and you didn't address my point about going a day without power, either on a plane or a shoot your movie studios and film producer notes show how clearly you don't understand the market Apple is catering to. I didn't realize what a limitation laptop battery life was until after college.
The only only thing I can see this gfx card having a problem with is high end 3d work, in which case, you should be on a workstation or you're going to be hindered no matter what.
This whole thread is silly.
