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Posted 05 December 2012 - 07:46 AM
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I am truly disgusted with Apple’s shift in priority from computers to consumer devices. Mr. Galbraith's following sentence really says it all about this lame 'update': "Who wants to spend $3800 on a system that begins its working life a year and half behind current technology?” Though I’ve been waiting nearly a year to buy 4 high end systems for my advertising and video production firm, I will NOT be buying any of these ‘new’ Mac Pros. I’ll instead keep waiting for what Apple should have delivered by January of 2012 — a truly serious machine with Thunderbolt, USB 3 and an SSD drive. Of course, the ever-changing needs of our business may very well force me to buy 4 or 5 comparable Windows or Linux machines long before Mr. Cook delivers his “really great” new Mac Pros "later next year.” Yeah, it looks like both Apple and Microsoft are pushing out serious developers and video editing professionals with this rush to mediocrity. Windows 8 is a piece of junk on top of Windows 7. And Apple has totally screwed up Final Cut Pro X and everyone is livid with them. Then the one machine that would be run FPCX or After Effects is old technology. The Xeon processors they're using were released in 2010. The better stuff is the Sandy Bridge Xeons released in 2012 (Xeon E5-2630 for example), which have more cores, more ... well, everything. I'm going to buy a PC with Windows 7 with Dual Sandy Bridge Xeon processors, and an NVidia card, 32 gigs of RAM, etc etc. for about $5k (that includes two SSD drives). Apple has shown its arrogance once again and shown that it truly becoming not a technical company, but a consumer-driven lowest-common-denominator caterer. They should spend a couple hundred million continuing to support their power users. We MADE Apple in the beginning. They OWE it to us. They can afford it, easily. They have tens of billions sitting around and they can't put out a great, kick-ass workstation? Pathetic.
This thread is pretty damn funny. I don't spend much time worried about Mac products because I see them for as "app" devices than solid computers. Sure, you have the iMac Pro with the mid-tier i7 processor, but its graphics card is meh, and its expandability (HDD/SSD/ETC.) is inconvenient at best. So I can't help but laugh when I see people upset over Apple not including "Thunderbolt" technology as if its the "old tech" that makes the Mac Pro not worth the $3K or $4K.
I remember the days (as you mention) when creative technology dependent firms not only had a reason to use Apple products, but did so with pride very well. But it's hard to imagine anyone creative enough to run a profitable business not having ditched Mac products long before the Final Cut debacle. This last weekend I spent a little over $1K and put together a Win 7 machine that's 30% faster than any Mac sold at this moment, runs the Adobe suite, Vegas, Avid, and all the incredibly helpful, free, open source software that will never find its way into the Mac OS. There isn't a single bit of software that I see Apple holding a monopoly over anymore. In fact, it's far more the reverse. I have an iMac only so that I can work with the people still living in the rusty old FCP 7 world or in the shiny amped up iMovie world, but I never turn my Mac on for anything else. The Win 7 OS is solid, fast and I have no complaints.
It's unbelievable that people would spend $3K on a computer-- even if it had the "Thunderbolt technology and a top of the line processor. These people are the last of the lemmings, ready to jump off the cliff but with last second doubts. Apple is now an information delivery company built around incredibly expensive devices that cater to "apps" not programs.
And the PC I just built used Mac compatible parts, so while I'm not condoning it, nor planning on it, I could also use the Mac OS on a PC that would run OSX faster than anything Apple has ever put out to date and 1/3 the price. Of course, there are a million "but you don't get this/that," but, really, I'm not a Mac hater, just someone who needs a fast computer who sees no reason to spend a ton of money on inferior hardware.
