Marcus Moore
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Agreed. These guys are great to listen to, even on topics I’m only marginally interested in.
Their MacPro discussion covers a lot of ground. Why it’s taken this long? What it could be? Why Apple is investing the time? I caught this part of the ep live and can’t wait to hear the rest as I toil away on motion graphics.
Read Marco Arments recent blog post as a primer for his most recent thoughts-
https://www.marco.org/2013/06/05/future-mac-pro-rumor
This was in response to the recent “really different” report from REDUSER.net. MacRumors tried to tie together that with the Facebook rumour of a locked down machine from a few posts down- but to me the two reports are fairly contradictory on a basic level.
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[Bernard Newnham] “Try doing that with your iMac.”
Or don’t. I don’t have time to play computer mechanic. Editing keeps me busy enough.
I’ve been running my business off a mixture of laptops and now an iMac for several years, waiting for a reason to move back to a tower since I moved off my Q5 Quad in 2008.
I keep the hardware for 2 years (usually a good duration to see a real bump in performance), then avail myself of the machine’s astounding resale value and move up. I’d say it probably costs me $1,000 per year [maybe less] to do this. Insanely little to invest relative to what I bring in annually.
I don’t see anything wrong with what you’re doing, but it’s not in everyone’s interest to be a tinkerer. I sure as heck don’t feel like I’m being “taken”. I’m making a but-load of money off the back of this $2,500 2011 iMac.
Regrets. Zero.
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Yup. We’re definitely at an inflection point for hardware- but then again not everyone is going to need to be producing for 4K in the near term. Theatrical, yes. TV, any show that wants to have legs in 5 years should at least be considering 4K post. Corporate and commercial have lifespans short enough that 1080 delivery will be fine for at least a few more years.
Until a 4K delivery system hits [when h.265 gains traction] there’s not much fire behind the display push. Though it is somewhat satisfying to see the entry price of 4K drop so rapidly in just the last 2 years. By the end of next year, you’ll probably be able to get a good-sized 4K display for a couple grand. Much faster than 1080 took to reach reasonable pricing.
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The only thing that bothers me now is that the 4K oriented Thunderbolt2 is not scheduled for later this year. Either that may add weight to a later time-frame for the MacPro launch.
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While I’d agree that the MacPro is probably one of the worst deals in computing today (2 year old hardware at unreduced price); I’ve yet to see anyone prove that any given iMac is that far out of line with a comparably spec’d PC [not including build your own, which is always cheaper, but it not within everyone’s ability to execute or maintain]. $200 to $500 on a multi-thousand dollar machine is usually where I see these comparisons end up. And I’ll happily pay that every 2-3 years for OSX, the Mac’s build quality, reliability, and resale value.
All I’m saying is that at this stage it makes no sense for Apple to be expanding it’s professional offerings, as the use-case for those products continues to shrink. As the chipsets improve, more and more of the market is served very well by what an iMac offers [I’m using one now, and will be until I can evaluate whether the MacPro is worth the investment]. If Apple is going to have one “Pro” desktop, it’s not going to be a machine that’s half a MacPro. MacPro users want what the MacPro offers [CPU and expandability-wise], otherwise those customers wouldn’t be on that product.
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Absolutely it was. I’m just saying Apple has set the precedent. And I think there would be much less impact to taking the existing MacPro off the market for 2-3 months than there was for the much higher volume iMac. I mean, who’s buying the existing MacPros at this stage anyway?
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Or, you know… wait for the machine to ACTUALLY be announced so you know what it really is.
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I don’t think it’s “a lot” of people asking for the mythical MacMiniTower (xMac)- just a vocal minority. And really, it would just be splitting an increasingly small slice of Apple’s computer market. Apple isn’t going to have 2 products in this space, and I think there would be way more people upset with a ONLY a xMac available than a more substantial MacPro.
There’s no meaningful market for a machine between a high-end iMac and a base model MacPro.
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Well, iMacs were announced in October and weren’t available until December/January really. I think Apple stands to loose relatively few sales with a pre announcement vs the goodwill of a announcement and a sale date.
Even if it’s not the machine some people want, at least they’ll know for sure what they’re options are.
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I’m not giving it any merit. Until we get multiple reports with similar specs, I think everyone’s speculation is equally dodgy. And considering how relatively few hands have been on this thing, I think Apple’s ability to keep things under wraps is substantially higher than the average Apple product.
So getting excited/upset about these rumours is folly.