aussiepaul

Thanks for the article but I think the whole Aperture vs Lightroom comparison misses the mark.
The real question is, why does Apple develop what is seemingly a good solution, then decide to kill it off or seriously cripple it aka Final Cut, Photos etc.?
Why does Apple only seemingly cater to the lowest common denominator these days?
Will Apple's new corporate "only if it makes significant money" management style hurt or hinder the company long term?
Where are the hardware and software solutions we users actually want?
Aperture died a long time before it was officially retired, at least a couple of years without any meaningful updates from my recollection...
Aperture could have been so much more.  I always envisioned them expanding the "lessons" concept of GarageBand to interactive editing demos by professional photographers with Aperture.  Photos is a joke by comparison.  Apple has seemingly no interest or talent in App development these days.  It's a concern isn't it?
Don't get me started on what happened to Nik after the google buy out.  Damn shame, their U-Point technology was really ground-breaking compared to anything in Aperture.

If you want to compare hardware on the two machines, why on earth don’t you just run the Mac in  Boot camp?  All you are doing is testing software.  This might be valid but only after you complete hardware comparison first.
I can’t think of any professional who would choose to run premiere or other poorly optimised software on the Mac.
I reboot into Windows when needing to run work software.  That duality is really the only reason I’m still supporting Apple.
the graphics performance and lack of optimisation of many programs on Apple is just too poor to justify it as my main OS for work these days...
BTW can you please compare Floating Point performance between the two graphics chips?

In response to a previous article and this one, AI is drinking too much Apple cool aid...

With the exception of the 13" quad core, these are not major upgrades at all...

The machines are good, yes.  But there remain three massive issues which won't ever be fixed:
 1. Extremely poor built in dedicated graphics (for a pro machine) (could someone tell me what the double precision FP performance of a Radeon 555X is!?)...  Probably not even 100M FLOPS...?
 2. CPUs which cannot hold even base frequency under constant load (is this the first laptop that Apple has shipped which cannot hold base frequency under full CPU utilisation)?
 3. Price.  It's no longer price competitive, especially once you start paying apple taxes for necessary add ons like dongles and extra SSD storage.

I'm so disappointed.  I have lost so much faith in Apple's Mac team under TC.  Things started going downhill pretty badly after Bob Mansfield left.  I recently bought a 13" 2017 non touch bar laptop to tide me over until these upgrades were available, and now I don't know what to do.
All of my long term Mac friends are leaving the platform because of cost (especially for SSD storage, it's insane, most people don't need 3GB/s write speeds, but they do need/want more storage in a laptop)...  The pricing is just insane.

Apple just doesn't listen, it never has and probably never will...  It's time for TC to go and concentrate on saving the world from intolerance.  Let's please get someone in there who understands the Mac and is not just some logistics guy.  Laptops are not going anywhere any time soon.  But Apple is slowly bleeding its core users.  And when developers all end up buying competing laptops, then the precious iOS will suffer too.

What's sad is that Apple is basically dead in Education and science now...

Can't imagine why anyone would be so stupid as to let google run their home/network.

Soli said:

daringdeveloper said:

How do you think a person working for Apple would feel when the company they work for expresses "values" associated with one political cause
and therefore get pressured into following the "company values" against their own conscience? Or alternatively get ostracised by colleagues
when they try to freely express their opinion?

OK, so how exactly does that work? Apple says we "we have values," and we support equality for women, different races, nationalities, LGBTQ rights, freedom of religion, the disabled, and all the other civil rights Tim Cook believes people are entitled. In your scenario this will offend some misogynistic dickhole who now feels, as you put it, ostracized that he can't express his hate filled views to his colleagues, which may or may not be in one of the aforementioned categories because of Apple isn't run using an antediluvian business model. You say this is hypocritical because it doesn't respect his values. Boo-fucking-woo, go work for Uber.

Nailed it.
i do wish Tim would spend more time making the Mac great again, though...