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9secondkox2 said:

Apple and...BEER BASH? Seriously?

oookayyy...

Not sure I'm following what you're getting at, but they do Beer Bash at WWDC every year.

Using the point the iMac is faster than the Mac Pro -- It wasn't when the Mac Pro was introduced, nor is the newest iMac always faster than the 4 / 6 core machines all the time. It depends on the application(s). The Mac Pro was mainly built for video studios, rendering studios, sciences / mission critical studios, etc. Apps that use OpenCL, the Mac Pro will mop the floor with the current iMac. In addition, when talking parallel computing, the Mac Pro can still often come out ahead. In addition, comparing apples and oranges here. The Mac Pro can be considered more mission critical with the Xeon CPU and ECC RAM. 

Apple has not abandoned the Pro market. Blanket statements do not help anyone. There are plenty of professionals that use these machines and Apples software to build films, production tv, education / science software, CI servers, and render intense models. Just because Intel has not had a valid CPU update, does not mean Apple has abandoned these machines. These machines do not sell in high numbers, nor are they meant to. They are meant for very specific audiences. When Intel stops playing around with energy efficient CPU architectures and goes back to server CPU updates, we'll get a refresh. 

I will agree that the GPUs have fallen behind from where they should be, but I'm sure Apple will come up with an update this year. Especially now that Thunderbolt 3 is here and a single bus can support a 5K display.

Yes according to the law.. VirnetX has a patent(s), and it was willfully (according to the courts) infringed on by Apple.

But the real story here is how horribly broken software patents are in general. Software patents put a large dampener on technological progression / innovation. The system needs a rework, and a rework quite soon.

These patents are 12-14 years old..

https://www.google.com/patents/US7921211
https://www.google.com/patents/US7490151
https://www.google.com/patents/US7418504
https://www.google.com/patents/US6502135

Sure would like to know the differences between the AVH-4200NEX and AVH4100NEX. I know they left my AVH-4000NEX in the dust with firmware updates. Hope they don't do the same with the 4100 I just got my wife.