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Tim Cook Says Apple is 'Very Committed' to the Mac and to 'Stay Tuned'
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well, we'll see what happens when the lineup becomes fresher.
they've shown us they're committed to cloud with a pretty good system (especially if compared to .Mac
) and they've now shown us they've been working on advancements in wireless connectivity (W1 chip)..i personally think we'll see better wi-fi and bluetooth (as well as easier to use/connect) on mac in the near future.
Agreed. My MacBook Pro has wifi issues and blue tooth issues all the time. Hearing that we're going all wireless is like when they say we're going paperless. Each time I hear that I have to fill out three more forms.
As pointed out much earlier in this thread, Mac sales actually represent about 12% of Apple's revenue. It's approximately as much as the iPad brings in for them. This is billions of dollars and I don't think anyone counting the beans at Apple is going to be a-ok with 12% of their revenue going away...
People also forget that if each of these businesses were stand-alone business they would be multi-billion $ companies.
Makes sense that mac sales would be so low. If I neglected a whole product line and section of my customer base that carried my company for decades, I'd have very little sales in that product line to.
well, we'll see what happens when the lineup becomes fresher.
they've shown us they're committed to cloud with a pretty good system (especially if compared to .Mac
i personally think we'll see better wi-fi and bluetooth (as well as easier to use/connect) on mac in the near future.
I just hope they don't pull the Mac mini 2014 update on us, by crippling the MacBooks and Pushing people towards iPad pros....with similar performance levels .
I hope they update the time capsules , my current ones are great , except for the time machine functionality , it beats engineering principles on how slow it is to backup....
I was working in the HD industry when SATA Express concept came up. SATA 3.0 had clearly hit its limits, and Intel wanted to simplify motherboard and IO designs. The proposal was to remove SATA from motherboards and have Hard Drives designed to natively use USB 3.0/3.1 directly in the drive. The idea was that it would simplify everything, no need for a SATA controller and overcome the limitations of SATA 3.0. Essentially USB 3.1 is both better performing and more versatile. Removing SATA was going to allow Intel to advance USB 3.0 and 3.1 more quickly and have more busses on a motherboard.
Long story short is it came down to Seagate and Western Digital refusing to follow the approach. They felt they had too much invested into designing and verifying SATA interfaces and that it was a competitive advantage against upstart SSD manufacturers like Micron, Intel, Samsung and SanDisk.
From that SATA Express was born, which essentially pairs SATA 3.0 with PCI Express. It is an unfortunate result of corporations protecting their cash cows instead advancing technology forward.
The future Apple & Intel were working towards is PCIe NVME/USB3.1/TB3 as the only interfaces on the inside of a computer. That is not to say a manufacturer could not place a 3.5" or 2.5" drive bays with drives connected via USB 3.1.
In other words I don't want the Express portion of SATA Express to die, just the SATA portion
The funny part is I think the industry will go that way anyways as flash prices continue to drop, we just would have gotten their faster had SATA been killed. SATA/SAS will live in external raids connected via Thunderbolt/FiberChannel or NAS.
I've liked having all my HDD in a NAS in the basement.
Asking for a "legitimate rumour" is a contradiction in terms.
Here we go, again.
Most apps like Maya, Nuke, Vray, VUE etc are all multi threaded and take full advantage of machines with multiple CPU and cores.
VUE is not single core / high clock speed software. It is extremely processor intensive and can benefit from as much power as you can throw at it.
It's amazing that ....well since ....2013 , Apple has not sorted these BT issues out ....with their own hardware , connecting to its own devices . Kind of says it all how commited they are to the desktop user .
I thought my machine was faulty , until I saw posts from other Mac Pro users having BT issues
there's obviously not enough use cases yet to judge any improvement apple may have made when designing their own chip instead of third party.. the analyst quips seem interesting so far though:
"Analyst Patrick Moorhead said it’s likely Apple removed a lot of the interference and clutter associated with the Bluetooth standard. Standard Bluetooth is plagued with connectivity and pairing problems. ”Bluetooth is trying to do too many things at once,” said Moorhead."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aaronti...t-wireless-chip-for-new-airpods/#4973ad0c7240
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i'll reply to you in that other thread about this..
maybe tmmr
I write software for mac os and iOS machines to communicate with our custom medical devices over BTLE. iOS is rock solid but the MP -- frustrating AF. I reboot so often it's like wfw3.11. My MacBookPro11,2 does not have this problem at all.It's amazing that ....well since ....2013 , Apple has not sorted these BT issues out ....with their own hardware , connecting to its own devices . Kind of says it all how commited they are to the desktop user .
I thought my machine was faulty , until I saw posts from other Mac Pro users having BT issues
Edit -- Ha, wfw3,11 -- sorry if NOBODY knows the reference. I'm old.
Exactly. It's also a herd mentality....the herd is saying that Apple's current computer lineup is old and not powerful enough, despite the fact that it's plenty powerful for what 99% of these clowns do on their computers. It's odd that most people would list durability as something they value in a Mac, and yet apparently a 2-year-old Mac is "garbage" and "useless" according to some of these jokers.
* I know there's the odd genuine professional in here, who has a specific and valid reason why you want a new Mac Pro, but you'll just have to exempt yourself from this generalisation.
Don't bother. You're just going to repeat what you have been pitching the last few times and will still be wrong.
My theory is that Apple discontinued the Mac Pro sometime last year and are just waiting to sell off the inventory in their warehouse before that announce it. The problem is they have been wait to sell the last 20 units for almost a year now....Yes! Come on Mac Pro refresh
My theory is that Apple discontinued the Mac Pro sometime last year and are just waiting to sell off the inventory in their warehouse before that announce it. The problem is they have been wait to sell the last 20 units for almost a year now....
Ha ha. Especially for 2012 tech at 2016 prices
i'm only wrong to you because you have your fingers in your ears.
meanwhile, you're spreading some serious misinformation around that thread/forum.
Sounds like Tim Kook's M.O.My theory is that Apple discontinued the Mac Pro sometime last year and are just waiting to sell off the inventory in their warehouse before that announce it. The problem is they have been wait to sell the last 20 units for almost a year now....
As apple continues to stall for time on Mac product refreshes, I wonder if they realize rather that Mac consumers and professionals are tired for the Apple Mac hobby approach.
mac products need a refresh at least yearly like the IOS products and Etc.
Apple is driving away their customers
mac products need a refresh at least yearly like the IOS products and Etc.
Apple is driving away their customers