Dan_Dilger

gatorguy said:

English is not your first language obviously. 

rob53 said:

"It was the lack of any modern manufacturing culture, including the schools and apprenticeships needed to train specialized mechanical engineers. " I continue to say that this is the biggest problem and liability corporate American and the United States in general has. Because too much emphasis is placed on generalized testing, pushing students to worthless degrees like MBAs and JDs, and not enough emphasis is placed on teaching students starting in kindergarten how to use their hands and brains to build things is what's causing the USA to fall behind other countries in manufacturing. Americans are lazy and want an easy desk job without getting their hands dirty. Schools need to bring back the arts as well as vocational education. There's nothing wrong with being a plumber, contractor or laborer, except in the minds of lazy people who were never taught how to use a hammer, saw or even a paint roller. I can't see someone wanting to become an engineer is they've never been given the chance to play with toys they've made instead of simply watching TV or exercising their thumbs on their phones. Parents needs to introduce their kids to building things instead of simply buying prebuilt toys. I started out building my toys, learned how to work on a car, basically taught myself electronics and computerized systems (I'm older so we didn't have the classes kids have now) and was taught woodworking by my grandfather, which I really enjoy. 

Before everyone blames Apple for going to China to have things built, look in the mirror and ask yourself whether you have the ability or desire to do it. For many on this forum the answer will be yes but ask your family and friends the same question and I bet the answers will overwhelmingly be NO.


DED: what happened to your https://roughlydraftedbeta.com website? Is it in production?

gatorguy said:

LOL... somehow Google and/or their products makes it's way into every DED article whether it's related or not. In this case not. Whaddaboutism at its finest. 

Otherwise it's a good article. Nothing is black and white. 

MacAwesome1984 said:

I read about 1/4 of this article then paused to scroll down to see how much more of this diatribe there was, reading an additional paragraph here and there. Dude, are you Bi-Polar? Having "Just Another Manic Monday?" Holy S***. None of this article has anything to do with Mac Pro Performance or review after giving one a test drive, which is what I was hoping for, good or bad. This article talks mostly about Google Android Failures and Inside Apple decisions you have know real knowledge of. This endless rant reminds me of a Famous Clip a Bill Gates Shouted in a during an Employee Meeting at Microsoft: “You Never Understood the First Thing About This!” Yet another blowhard who gets to write a never-ending mantra of Psychobabble. Ewan Spence of Forbes is another one. Where and how these guys get to write for major publications has got to be about wealth and connections and nothing more.

longpath said:

"By the same token, that also means that there are all manners of other potential niche Macs that Apple is purposely not shipping because they would not strategically advance any goal. So the appearance of Mac Pro is not evidence that other "wishlist Macs" are similarly in the pipeline, such as a scaled-down version speculatively aimed at "pro-ish" consumers, or one aimed at gamers, or crypto miners, and so on."

Respectfully, what do you think the most recent revision of the Mac-Mini, especially when coupled with an e-GPU, is? The same CPU that was tailor made for render farms (which we are buying a bunch fo specifically for our render farm) is already "pro-ish", and capable of scaling upward if your requirements also include a stout GPU.

That past Mac-Minis may have been lackluster performers is not an indication of the capabilities of the most recent model.