Andrew Kimery
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It does, though I wish Apple would officially support eGPUs so we could avoid the hacks/workarounds/limitations required to make it work.
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If there is no chair throwing I will be extremely disappointed. 😉
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[David Mathis] “Any less expensive options? The price is a bit much. I mean I could by a third of a “new” Mac Pro low end model for that price.”
Yes, all of the new 10-series cards from Nvidia (1080, 1070, 1060, etc.,) will work.
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Would totally attend if I was going to be at NAB this year. Will it be streamed?
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I don’t think they mentioned it in the article, but Nvidia is releasing Mac drivers for all the Pascal/10 series cards, not just this new Titan card. The cMPs certainly do have more life left in them now.
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And on another related note, Nvidia announced that drivers for their new ‘pascal’ line of GPUs are available for 10.11 and 10.12 which means all those creaky cMPs out there can keep on keepin’ on!
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/nvidia-titan-xp-gpu-mac-support/
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This seems relevant to the topic at hand, “Microsoft Surface Beats iPad in Design, Productivity, and Accessory Use in New J.D. Power Study”.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/microsoft-surface-beats-ipad-j-d-power/ -
[andy patterson] “I think we may agree more than disagree. “
I think so too.
-Andrew
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[andy patterson] “If HP hypothetical did as I suggested am sure you would agree HP would get backlash beyond belief. Apple did get some backlash with the 2013 Mac Pro but many Apple users thought since it is Apple it has got to be good. I”
Moving from HP to Dell is a seamless move for the user though. Switching from Mac to PC (or PC to Mac) is much more of a hassle. If Dell or HP could make Apple clones I guarantee that they would’ve picked up a lot of business after Apple released the nMP. Scratch that, they would’ve picked up a lot of business around 2011-2012 when people were grumbling about the lack of updates to the cMP.
I’d say a lot of people moved away from the nMP (either staying with the cMP, buying an iMac, building a Hack or switching to Windows) because the fallout was enough to get Apple to publicly state they goofed and that they are working on a more flexible, upgradeable MP. How often has Apple done that?
Considering the hassle of switching platforms I think a more apt comparison is platform loyalty, not brand loyalty.
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[Shawn Miller] “To your point though, a lot of that research was more or less academic and without a lot of focus on market viability… they seem to be getting better about that.”
I hope they don’t swing into focusing almost solely on viability. Many times the ‘happy accidents’ come from research for the sake of research. I also like seeing MS showing off concepts and prototypes that came from their labs even if there isn’t a commercial viability on the horizon.