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  • Hands on: Apple Pro Display XDR

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    zoetmb said:
    Wow....$1,000.00 for just the stand??? I'm glad I do not require such a high tech monitor, but I can appreciate those that do......If you can afford $5-6K for a monitor...what's another grand for the stand?
    Not everyone buying something expensive is in the "price doesn't matter" crowd and just because you buy one expensive thing doesn't mean one can afford another somewhat less expensive thing because the first expensive thing might have already tapped you out.  

    Let's say someone feels they really need a very high quality monitor because they're doing pro stills or video or other design work and need color accuracy (not that we yet know for sure that this monitor is color accurate - we just know it supposedly "looks good").   So they can't necessarily really afford it, but they believe they need it enough to invest in it anyway and they "find a way".   Another $1000 for the stand could be a big hurdle.   And while I realize the stand has some nice tech built into it, I think Apple thinking $1000 for the stand was going to be readily accepted displays (sic) an increasing amount of tone deafness, which I think has been a disease at Apple  for some time now.   The executives at Apple who make these kinds of product/pricing decisions are so highly compensated, that they've lost all touch with how people and (small) companies live in the real world (IMO).  

    Having said that, I do wonder how many of these towers and monitors will wind up on the desks of the "rich" who don't do anything but ordinary tasks on their computers.   But if that leads to enough sales to make this viable for Apple to do, great.  


    It's the other way round. Not including the stand in the fixed priced of the monitor, which would make it $6k, is actually a decision that benefits consumer. Apple is giving us a cheaper option. The keyword here is you 'don't have to' get Apple stand.
    watto_cobraStrangeDayscgWerks

  • Mac Pro versus iMac Pro: how to choose the best pro Mac

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    rain22 said:
    This is Apples worst selling computer since the Cube - and for very good reason. 

    I can hardly trust someone who lie with something like this.
    StrangeDaysEsquireCatsfastasleep

  • Three days with Apple's new Mac Pro: incredible speed that will accelerate with time

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    kevin kee said:
    as well as the 24-core configuration with the Vega II Duo video card, the Afterburner card, and 192GB of RAM worth $22,199.

    Let me sink that in in a second...

    Okay, I want it but I don't need it for my use. It is a beautiful machine that demand to be respected with real hard tasks, not sitting on my desk while I am checking email and stuffs. I don't think the machine will like that at all.

    iMac Pro is still my best option and the best 'consumer' Mac available right now.

    But define "best consumer" Mac? I looked at the iMac 5K and iMac Pro and decided 5K was best for my use cases, as a consumer and software dev. It's an awesome machine, and with 3.6Ghz 8-core i9, 2TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 8GB Pro Vega 48, I could have paid more for the iMP but the returns didn't really make sense for me. IMO this is the best consumer iMac and the one I'd recommend to any consumer without knowing more about their use cases.
    The highest base-built for iMac 5K is actually pretty decent: 3.7GHz 6-core processor Turbo Boost up to 4.6GHz, 2TB storage, Retina 5K display vs the lowest base-built for iMac Pro: 3.2GHz Intel Xeon W up to Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz, 32GB RAM 1TB SSD, Retina 5K display. The only reasons I will go for Pro is for higher upgradable RAM and CPU, the slightly better GPU, I get SSD with the base built, bluetooth 5 and better ethernet. But that will cost me double than the highest base-built 5K.

    At the moment I have 3 options if I go for decent built:
    1. 27 iMac 5k starting from A2799
    2. 27 iMac Pro 5k starting from A7299
    3. Mac Pro starting from A9999* (tower) +A8499 (monitor)

    *although for Mac Pro, it will be better upgrade all in.
    watto_cobra

  • Three days with Apple's new Mac Pro: incredible speed that will accelerate with time

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    hodar said:
    Yes, it will get faster - but this is not due to any major accomplishments by Apple.

    This is largely due to the work being done by very bright people at AMD/Intel/nVidia - who are enabling Apple to benefit.  It would be interesting to benchmark the price/Performance of the A-series chips from Apple in a desktop/server application, against AMD/Intel/nVidia and work in that direction.

    But, currently - to give credit to Apple, is akin to giving credit to the cock that crows every morning at sunrise.
    And that is the problem right there: not enough credits to Apple when it's due, all blames on Apple when it's not.
    StrangeDaysn2itivguybadmonkpscooter63mwhitetmaycornchipwatto_cobraguscat

  • Three days with Apple's new Mac Pro: incredible speed that will accelerate with time

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    as well as the 24-core configuration with the Vega II Duo video card, the Afterburner card, and 192GB of RAM worth $22,199.

    Let me sink that in in a second...

    Okay, I want it but I don't need it for my use. It is a beautiful machine that demand to be respected with real hard tasks, not sitting on my desk while I am checking email and stuffs. I don't think the machine will like that at all.

    iMac Pro is still my best option and the best 'consumer' Mac available right now.

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