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Is there such thing as "Cooks Law"? It would state that Mac Hardware is always at least 2 years behind PC hardware in processing power and 4 years in graphics.

"Your Galaxy 8 will self-destruct in 3-2-1."

sflocal said:

wozwoz said:

Nice review

>  iMac Pro now has four (Thunderbolt 3) ports

And there immediately is the first problem with the iMac all-in-one design:  if you have four Thunderbolt 3 connections + USB thingies in and out ... + ethernet etc ...  the wires going into this thing will start looking mayhem on your desk, elevated from the back of the monitor. That's another reason why a modular design, like the R2D2 Mac Pro is just a better design for the pro market. You can have all the wires either on the floor, or at desk level to the side ... and just a single cable running to your monitor.

Your ignorance really shows here.  Not even worth the effort.

Come back when your business depends on doing real work instead of playing "Candy Crush".

wozwoz is not wrong. I have done more 6 million dollars worth of architectural fees on Macs. Your crass comment and insult adds nothing to the discussion. https://imgur.com/JbwHSSM

The iMac Pro is great AIO, but doesn't fulfill every pros needs, even Apple has stated that.

There is a difference between a shovel and a hammer. I need both.

I love my iPad Pro, but I need a Mac desktop to do a lot of other things. Apple refuses to combine to combine a Mac and an iPad... like a Surface Pro, which i understand, but I hope they keep updating Macs or my business is in trouble. 

Hoooooray!!!!! I still need Intel Macs for work though. A consumer ARM chip would be cool.

Just stick a mother board in that thing and we have an new Mac Pro. That simple.

You may need the new Mac Pro to watch it because of all the fun, and we know how little fun is in the Mac lineup now.

Yup no one goes to work and comes home and ever wants to play a game, especially mac users. Consoles are better anyway, wink, wink, wink. The human eye can only see 30fps. And no one works on movies, content creation or VR/AR. Everyone wants to pay the expensive Apple tax on hardware and then be told it is not fast enough to run "games." Macs are not toys.

The Direct X monopoly is one reason and Apples refusal to provide solution to it. As well as underpowered hardware, mouse acceleration, and lack of hardware choice (modularity, glossy slow refresh monitors). Apples insistence to use energy as a design limitation in its products, because it wants to provide smaller, thinner, greener machines is really a design flaw.

The Mac Pro was over 900w and was reduced to 350w in the trash can. I feat of engineering that should not be overlooked, but inconsequential nonetheless because energy is not the scarcity they should be designing for.

Not supporting gaming is really the same reason pros left, but on the other side. With gaming comes or goes content creation and that is really what apple has lost, and I think Apple just realized it. The upcoming technologies that people are using for games, movies and interfaces such as VR and AR won't be created on a crappy iMac running integrated graphics (same price point as some reasonable PC hardware). The mistake they are making is assuming that because it is such a small market it does not matter. They could just open the OS to the other hardware manufacturers and not reinvent the wheel for the pro market, the hardware already exists, why wait 18 months.

I know we are going to get some convoluted thunderbolt system that is 3 times more expensive and will be outdated in 18 months. I solution searching for a problem. Apple should stick to their expertise of creating hardware for Pokemon-Go and let the OS run on some real hardware for new technologies that are being developed.

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nolamacguy said:

xzu said:

chia said:

maury markowitz said:

- the lack of USB on the front means you are constantly spinning your machine around, or leaving it pointed cables-forward, which kind of defeats the entire purpose of making the front look clean

- 4 USB simply isn't enough. I am constantly pulling one to make room for USB keys and such. This would be better if the Apple keyboard had a USB3 hub, but it's not.

What's the problem with buying a USB hub or two together with an extension lead and leaving everything plugged in place?

Expansion http://imgur.com/5P0suqc

Design decisions to emphasize size and silent running allowed me to place it on my desk rather than under it... probably not as important as expansion. You can't see the raid attached under the desk or the 2 power strips running the entire operation. More than one person has mistaken it as a trash can and dropped something into it. 

if more than one person you work with thinks all that crap is plugged into a trash can that's inconviently sitting on your desktop behind your monitor...then your org needs help. the sort Apple cannot provide. 

Fair enough, my clients are not the brightest. But it looks like a trash can from the front, my point being it is not the most aesthetically pleasing design. http://imgur.com/rlPdoDL