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  • My girlfriend works for a major finance corporation. She has been advised that they are going to phase out the Blackberry/IBM laptop combi for iPads/iPhones. And the Apple Store is down for updates.....what could it be???
    in Apple preparing to introduce Sandy Bridge iMacs early next week - sources Comment by zeph May 2011
  • I wish Apple would not reserve top-spec for the large display models. I need the power, but prefer the smaller display. Ah well, not gonna happen. I'll just wait for the next Pro.
    in Apple preparing to introduce Sandy Bridge iMacs early next week - sources Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Maybe the idea is horizontal placement?
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Someone over at MacRumors did a mock-up based on 9to5's speculation: I'm all for smaller, as long as it keeps cool and quiet. And a lower base price would be good. Yeah right.
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 It is one thing to have a low opinion of somebody else, it is a vastly different thing when you express a low opinion of yourself. That is what I was concerned with in the first comment. I don't have a low…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 There are lots of things I don't know. That being the case I don't run around calling myself an ignoramus. etc.etc.etc. If you aren't in the audio workstation market then why bring up the subject an…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • OK, I've been doing some reading and this article also suggests that most apps do not multi-thread efficiently: http://macperformanceguide.com/Revie...ere-Cores.html I'm gonna do some more reading, but so far I have not seen any evidence tha…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I say that with the qualification that some software isn't, never will be and doesn't benefit from threading. However the vast majority of apps available on Apple platforms use some amount of threading, eith…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil There was a time when Apple would sue, win, and subsequently bankrupt a company for doing any design even remotely close to theirs. Where the heck have those days gone?! Laugh all you want, but the H…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by ClassicGuy Guess you didn't read my post about Handbrake... So that makes one. What else?
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 To which I have to say you don't understand the market! Seriously the machines are being sold to people that make use of those cores. They either use specifically written software or write their own. Sp…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph April 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by MacTac I seem to recall Apple coming out with Boot Camp. Followed by products by VMWare and Parallels. If even Apple has acknowledged a need to sometimes use Windows Apple better pay attention to the needs of its custo…
    in Does no one care about iMacs anymore? Comment by zeph March 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The biggest problem with Windows is the design - aesthetic and technical. While I agree on the aesthetical bit, I think that technical argument has become moot. Where OSX scores is efficiency and stabili…
    in Does no one care about iMacs anymore? Comment by zeph March 2011
  • Did you post it upside down and mirrored on purpose?
    in OSX 10th anniversary today? Comment by zeph March 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Noisy? You're remembering the G5s, not the Mac Pro. I can't even hear my Mac Pro's fans over the hideous grinding of my hard drives. Thing's dead silent when not writing to/from them. Need me some multi-te…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph March 2011
  • OK, just read on another forum that the Xeon 3.2GHz W3565's price came down just last month. Perhaps Apple will address this when they buy them at the new prices. Right.
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph March 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by WelshDog I agree. And that is where the Midi Mac that people have been thinking about for over 10 years would fill in nicely. An xMac would not be necessary if Apple would just price the single-CPU MacPro fairly. …
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph March 2011
  • ThB or TBolt would do.TB also means 'talkback' in audio-land. If the next iMac update is gonna be as major as last month's MacbookPro's, it may tick a lot of boxes for me. Just hope that they'll make top spec available with the smaller display as…
    in Does no one care about iMacs anymore? Comment by zeph March 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by WelshDog I priced out the current Z800 with 12 cores and it came out a little higher than the equivalent Mac Pro. So I disagree that they cost too much. The dual-processor models may be on par with the Windows comp…
    in The Mac Pro is Dead Comment by zeph March 2011
  • Quote: Originally Posted by rnb2 The iMac, easily - even if the profit on the non-display portions of the machine are the same, they probably make $200-300 on the display. Not so sure about the display mark-up. The 21" may be overpriced, but…
    in Does no one care about iMacs anymore? Comment by zeph March 2011