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  • High-end users on 'Why I'm buying the new Mac Pro'

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    Apple did ‘nail it’.
    You can never have enough cpu (compute) cycles per second. Even 3 orders of a magnitude machine can be brought down on its knees in an instance.
    Funny no one mentions the real motivation to buy the pro ... it will do very well as a bitcoin maker (certainly when the FPGA can be programmed).

    watto_cobra

  • Apple Pay goes live in the Netherlands

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    Would be nice if other banks follow, say Rabobank for example.
    lostkiwi

  • Editorial: Apple's WWDC 2019 was far more than just the Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR

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    macgui said:
    techsavy said:
    Really? A 1000 Dollar monitor stand that has two adjustable accesses? I can buy 4 ergotron monitor arms for that same price and they have full mobility. Along with that it looks like the monitor attachment looks unique to apple, what a surprise. I hope the new Macs come with a stand already because this is ridiculous.
    Well, to be fair, up/down, tilt, and landscape/portrait. And I'm betting the build quality is far and away much better than any Ergotron arm.

    Sure the Ergotron is cheaper. You might say cheap. I've owned two and got rid of them because the build quality wasn't what I wanted. Sure, it was good enough, if I was on a tight budget, but it was far from a precision bit of kit.

    Who needs precision in a monitor stand? Maybe nobody needs it. But if it's available and somebody is willing to pay for it, it's a choice.

    But I am wondering - does it come with any stand, a basic one? In another thread, I believe Mike W said it does. This article says or implies it doesn't.

    I agree it should come with a basic stand as do all other monitors. But Apple might be offering the VESA adapter so as to roll your own arm/stand solution. I hope that's not the case.

    Maybe TwelveSouth or somebody will make an easel for it. Apple's VESA port is probably proprietary so counterfeiting a stand for it could be problematic.
    Mac Pro and monitor is aimed at the high end professional market, even a chair costs way more than $1000  for this segment and cost isn't an issue overall; quality is though, and I expect Apple delivers in this aspect.
    AppleExposedStrangeDaysJWSCwatto_cobra

  • Editorial: The new Mac Pro is overkill for nearly everybody, and it hit Apple's own target...

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    I really like that Apple has a rack mounted system again Xserve 2.
    I also like the insane amount of memory (2TB) that can be configured, this will make it a true performance beast. 4TB SSD seems small in comparison and is absolutely needed for high performance because 2Tbps ethernet is an order of magnitude slower ...
    I also like the use of an FPGA, I hope its possible to configure that from software ...

     

    watto_cobra

  • Editorial: The new Mac Pro is overkill for nearly everybody, and it hit Apple's own target...

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    pakitt said:
    This new Mac Pro is for “Pixar”, and the such. By that I mean the true professionals out there that need all this “beef” to do whatever they need that an iMac Pro cannot do. And have the money for it. 

    I am more interested about people like “NASA”: will macOS be the right OS to support their needs? An OS that is anything but “Pro” and hardly has a Finder fit for the 21st century?...

    Although based on Unix, macOs is far from being a Linux-like OS.... 
    Try spotlight, that will work.
    macOs isn't based on Unix, its Mach.
    It does have a compliant bash shell which is seen by many as Unix.
    And (to help you a bit) Linux users like bash too. 
    watto_cobra