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Apple Confirms New Mac Pros and iMacs in 2013-Forbes
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[Chris Harlan] “[Michael Hadley] “They are on record as promising to deliver new iMacs and MacPros in 2013. It doesn’t get any more official than that.”
Bull Schlitz”
So it went from a “likely release in 2013” to “being on record promising to deliver”.
It’s has all the characteristics of an abusive relationship. Along with all the promises that everything will be better, soon, and twisting words to fit expectations. Anyone remembers the Lemmings commercial?And so the saga continues (now hitting play on track Imperial March of Star Wars soundtrack).
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[Walter Soyka] ”
Apple would not have approved this verbatim, as there is no such computer as “the Mac” (the error I noted above). We can therefore assume that this is not an official statement. Elsewhere in the story, they say that “new desktops are in play.””Didn’t we just get off this crazy roller coaster? Didn’t anyone learn their lesson? We had word with utmost confidence that we were going to see a new Mac Pro on Monday, that Apple was going to update every model save for the Mini. There was so much utter crap swirling around the last two weeks that so many bought into and now that’s all proven to be a lie. And now here we go again, with the same level of substantiation, and people are still spreading this crap.
I should seriously put the Brooklyn Bridge up for sale on here. I bet I’d get a lot of interest.
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[Thomas Frank] “It is a 50/50 chance here.”
Just like it was a 50/50 chance that Apple was TOTALLY going to update the Mac Pro and iMac line at WWDC?
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Proof? for a 50/50 chance? Proof implies an absolute. And what most people are espousing here is that there is no absolute. Certainly not from an anonymous source. What’s your proof? Come on. What’s yours?
Tim
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[Thomas Frank] “[Gary Huff] “People are quoting Pogue and some anonymous forum poster as if they are speaking the gospel truth, and I’m not going to spread b.s. no matter how interesting it might be.”
And where is your proof? It is a 50/50 chance here.”While there might be a 50/50 chance that their will be a MacPro in 2013, the fact that anonymous postings are pure BS is 100%.
The best definition of BS that I know is “language used without concern for truth in order to manipulate” which means that BS may be true or not. A lie is concerned with truth in that it is trying to be the opposite, BS doesn’t care about the truthfulness of an utterance, just what the effect of that utterance will be on an audience.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Walter Soyka] “HP evaluated “strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG), including the exploration of the separation of its PC business into a separate company through a spin-off or other transaction.””
I hadn’t actually read that before, but one thing jumped out at me. A quick command-F on “explor” confirmed: 14 times that explore or exploration was used, plus another 3 for “evaluate.”
The first person to email me “I found it!” when Apple does a similar press release, I will buy a new pony.
Wait, why did HP explore and evaluate such things? “To drive higher value solutions to enterprise, small and midsize business and public sector customers.” You may not like gubmint and hate HP because they want MY TAX DOLLARS for their stinking Windozers…but hey: they explored and evaluated ideas to support bidness as well as gubmint.
Nevertheless, Apotheker’s head rolled the following month. The next month!!! That’s obviously not the only reason, but I’m not sure how much more decisively HP could have rejected this unless they’d ACTUALLY cut off his head and rolled it.
And in fairness to Apple, stuff like this is why Apple doesn’t pipe up about what it’s thinking about. No matter how quickly you walk them back, people are still going to beat you up for false moves.
And also as Tim Cook pointed out, if you tell people what you’re going to do, THEY MIGHT DO IT FIRST. On one hand, that’s nonsense. On the other hand, he’s exactly right. I imagine that a lot of things that will show up in a new Mac Pro will show up elsewhere first. LOL
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[Michael Hadley] “Or, like most of us, you can tough it out “
Most of us? I’ve seen a lot of high end movement over the last several years to the much faster PC environment. Only thing keeping me behind right now is ProRes. Its been a long time since Apple’s high end was in such disarray. Frankly, its shameful. You know, a joke. The only thing they have going for them currently is that they’re an island, and getting to the main land can be a little difficult. Apple does make some great products, but their current line of workstations suck.
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Corporations always talk about their future products. That is how they raise money and keep their stock prices up. Apple in in the unique (cash) position right now to not have to deal with those things. I’m not sure what shareholders meetings you have been attending but let’s assume for a moment that corporations only supply “vague blandishments” about future products. The fact remains that those vague blandishments most often emanate from the mouths of corporate executives with titles who are quoted for attribution. The fact that Apple does not have to be bothered with such trivia at the moment in no way means that other companies out there are immune from doing so. Talking about what’s new is how they survive.
Tim
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Well, you are right. I did conflate “likely” a bit from the Forbes article. But I would be flabbergasted if they did not know come out with new boxes in 2013 (and early 2013 at that) given these new very public, very prominent pronouncements. (Remember, they said nothing public about MacPros prior to this. It was all just rumors and blog sites).
If nothing happens next year, I’m out as far as video editing systems go.
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[Chris Harlan] “their current line of workstations suck.”
They suck on ice. They suck squared. You would think they would do something just to avoid the embarrassment of listing them at those prices. It can be definitively stated that at this point in time Apple makes the worst workstations, dollar for dollar, to be found in the known universe. One might think they would care. Apparently one would be wrong.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf
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