John Siracusa perspective on Mac Pro Successor

[Oliver Peters]

[Jeremy Garchow] “While Apple did have a server line, they don’t anymore.
They got out of big data.
The offered replacements? A MacMini, and a MacPro. “

Oh, I quite agree. And Jobs famously said enterprise customers were a PITA to deal with. Success in the consumer space, attitude and less of a need for true “heavy iron” has moved them into a different direction.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “And Jobs famously said enterprise customers were a PITA to deal with.”

Actually, it was the people using the devices didn’t have any say on what they used, and the people that made the decisions on what to use were confused. Essentially, the users couldn’t vote for themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1srU6Z77jfc

[Chris Harlan]

Priceless. I plan on using the opening of this any time someone tries to convince me that Apple really, really, really cares about the Mac Pro.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Oliver Peters] “OTOH, Apple quite prominently promoted its G5 as the fastest computer and was very instrumental in promoting the use of multiple Xserves in computing clusters. “

I’ve mentioned Apple promoting the G5 as the fastest personal computer on Earth a couple of times already. “Personal” being the key word but even with that stipulation I still think they ran afoul of consumer protection laws in Europe and had to pull the ads.

By big iron I was thinking more along the lines of SGI’s Octane boxes or propriety/custom hardware in high end rigs. Basically systems that couldn’t be bought off-the-shelf. Apple’s various ‘desktop revolutions’ (publishing, music production, DVD authoring, editing, color correction, etc.,) helped cut off big iron products at the knees by showing that desktops can now provide ‘good enough’ performance for a fraction of the price.

[Michael Phillips] “And don’t forget the ad where it was illegal to export a Mac as it was too fast according to national security standards or something to that effect.”

I don’t remember that but I do remember when the PS2 when came out it had to get a special import/export exemption as, at the time, it qualified as military grade tech.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Here is the equivalent of a halo car in the computer world:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-from-09-is-now-obsolete-will-be-dismantled/

[Chris Harlan]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Here is the equivalent of a halo car in the computer world:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/worlds-fastest-superc...

“

Apparently a little too much sizzle in that core. One of the 22 most powerful computers in the world, but not worth the cost of the power it takes to run it! Amazing.

[Nicolas Horne]

[Craig Seeman] “one Pegasus Raid and AJA IO XT”

just what i did last year, while waiting for a new mac pro :-/