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New Mac Pro Commercial!
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[Marcus Moore] ” But you have to market and sell your products until you’re ready to make the switch.”
My point is how you market and whether it stretches the truth to all but the truest of believers (but who here would qualify as that :). Apple marketed the Power PC as the fastest most powerful PC on the market when it was a relative clunker to what was more cheaply available on Wintel.
David
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[Marcus Moore] “But you have to market and sell your products until you’re ready to make the switch.”
Of course, but I’m sure you count yourself as a savvy consumer who understands that it’s b.s., but what about those who aren’t quite as savvy? Screw ’em?
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[Walter Soyka] “But… isn’t Public Storage or any self-storage vendor kind of the physical equivalent of “the cloud?””
Yes.
Excuse me while I go clean the egg off my face.
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Truth is truth- I don’t subscribe to that kind of sliding scale thinking.
Unfortunately going down the rabbit hole of the relative speeds of nearly decades old processors is hopefully something neither of us have time for. Is there an easy way to qualify what you’re saying?
I’m only familiar with Apple’s slides from the G3-G5 days showing performance vs Intel equivalents.
Stuff like this-
https://www.architosh.com/features/2004/g5-interview/2004-interv-g5nem-1.phtml
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It’s the ad agency that should check for egg-on-face, not you! I thought the joke was funny, I just found the ad to be quite ironic.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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In what regard? It’s not that the machines didn’t work.
There’s loads of people who bough pre-Intel machines (myself included), and those machines worked fine for years- and were supported up until Lion in mid-2011. 6 years after the Intel switch announcement.
The G5 desktop stuff was working great, but as portables became a larger and larger share of the market, they had to ditch. IBM just couldn’t do what was needed.
It’s honestly too bad that it’s a one-horse race for processors. Who’s pushing Intel now?
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I wonder if they used any off the CC product offerings in making of this commercial. That would be ironic.
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[Marcus Moore] “It’s honestly too bad that it’s a one-horse race for processors. Who’s pushing Intel now?”
Intel’s competition is adjacent: NVIDIA and AMD with GPUs, and Apple, Freescale, Samsung and TI with mobile processors.
In other words, it may not be Intel per se but rather the desktop CPU itself that has competition pushing it.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Marcus Moore] “Unfortunately going down the rabbit hole of the relative speeds of nearly decades old processors is hopefully something neither of us have time for. Is there an easy way to qualify what you’re saying?
I’m only familiar with Apple’s slides from the G3-G5 days showing performance vs Intel equivalents.
Stuff like this-
https://www.architosh.com/features/2004/g5-interview/2004-interv-g5nem-1.pht...”
My gawd, man. You just jumped down the rabbit hole. Me, I prefer Mark Twain, “..lies, damned lies, and statistics.” But I do remember the TV commercials.
David
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True enough. There’s of course all these rumours bout A-series process Macs. And I don’t doubt for a minute that just like with IBM almost a decade ago- Apple has those in their labs, in case Intel stables, or if Apple gets to a point with a A12 or A15 that there’s no longer any benefit to sticking with them.
I’m sure Apple would love not to have their Mac refresh cycle dictated by Intel’s roadmap. But I have no clue as to the relative power of today’s A7 chip vs an i5 or i7.
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