I'm not trying to say that those aren't important users either, but from the context of the article and considerations for how likely a user of a given type of machine would need to have built-in 3G/4G type radio. As it is, Apple doesn't even include WiFi in the base configuration of the Mac Pro, even though it's standard on every other Mac.
I agree.
We're taking this way out of proportion. All I was responding to was the supposition that taking a Mac Pro on location is not done, when it's not that uncommon.
I'm not trying to compare it to a portable computer per se.
We're taking this way out of proportion. All I was responding to was the supposition that taking a Mac Pro on location is not done, when it's not that uncommon.
I'm not trying to compare it to a portable computer per se.
But that the original point, that Mac Pros aren't portable machines so they wouldn't need to have a WWAN card included.
But that the original point, that Mac Pros aren't portable machines so they wouldn't need to have a WWAN card included.
I'm not saying that they would need to be included. Bluetooth doesn't NEED to be included as so few people use it, but these days, as the price for including it has dropped so much, it is included. Wifi still has higher costs involved to it's not in the Mac Pro as standard.
Then again, most people don't use Ethernet, but that is included. Or optical outputs.
Some of this doesn't really make sense, but it's done one way or the other.
WWAN is still new, we'll se what happens a year or two from now.
If you are being pedantic, then yes it can be moved, but so can a mainframe or a house for that matter. The Mac Pro is a desktop PC and a large one at that. It's not meant to disconnected from it's peripherals and carted around town. It has no battery so it can't be used without being plugged in. I'd say that for all intents and purposes it "isn't remotely portable".
Not pedantic. I misread Mac Pro as MBP in the middle of a thread dealing with portable and mobile computers.
Now that I read it right, while I agree the Mac Pro isn't classically portable in the ready computing sense, many pros do move them and use them where they have generator power but no network jacks. So yes, it is still quite portable.
Back to your original comment which I misread. You are the one who blindsided the thread with putting wireless carrier cards into desktop machines. The post you responded to talked about about portable Macs, like a potential Mac tablet and used the Kindle as an example of how it could be done. Then YOU go off and denigrate the comment by citing a desktop machine as being not portable. So I don't feel so bad about reading right past Mac Pro when the whole context of the thread made MacBook Pro fit so naturally into what you wrote. Much more in context that what you actually wrote -- which can be seen to be as much of a mistake as I made!
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I'm not trying to say that those aren't important users either, but from the context of the article and considerations for how likely a user of a given type of machine would need to have built-in 3G/4G type radio. As it is, Apple doesn't even include WiFi in the base configuration of the Mac Pro, even though it's standard on every other Mac.
I agree.
We're taking this way out of proportion. All I was responding to was the supposition that taking a Mac Pro on location is not done, when it's not that uncommon.
I'm not trying to compare it to a portable computer per se.
I agree.
We're taking this way out of proportion. All I was responding to was the supposition that taking a Mac Pro on location is not done, when it's not that uncommon.
I'm not trying to compare it to a portable computer per se.
But that the original point, that Mac Pros aren't portable machines so they wouldn't need to have a WWAN card included.
But that the original point, that Mac Pros aren't portable machines so they wouldn't need to have a WWAN card included.
I'm not saying that they would need to be included. Bluetooth doesn't NEED to be included as so few people use it, but these days, as the price for including it has dropped so much, it is included. Wifi still has higher costs involved to it's not in the Mac Pro as standard.
Then again, most people don't use Ethernet, but that is included. Or optical outputs.
Some of this doesn't really make sense, but it's done one way or the other.
WWAN is still new, we'll se what happens a year or two from now.
If you are being pedantic, then yes it can be moved, but so can a mainframe or a house for that matter. The Mac Pro is a desktop PC and a large one at that. It's not meant to disconnected from it's peripherals and carted around town. It has no battery so it can't be used without being plugged in. I'd say that for all intents and purposes it "isn't remotely portable".
Not pedantic. I misread Mac Pro as MBP in the middle of a thread dealing with portable and mobile computers.
Now that I read it right, while I agree the Mac Pro isn't classically portable in the ready computing sense, many pros do move them and use them where they have generator power but no network jacks. So yes, it is still quite portable.
Back to your original comment which I misread. You are the one who blindsided the thread with putting wireless carrier cards into desktop machines. The post you responded to talked about about portable Macs, like a potential Mac tablet and used the Kindle as an example of how it could be done. Then YOU go off and denigrate the comment by citing a desktop machine as being not portable. So I don't feel so bad about reading right past Mac Pro when the whole context of the thread made MacBook Pro fit so naturally into what you wrote. Much more in context that what you actually wrote -- which can be seen to be as much of a mistake as I made!