danvm

applesauce007 said:

vonbrick said:

sog35 said:

Surface is such an overhyped BLAH product line

Oops...you forgot something:

<OPINION>Surface is such an overhyped BLAH product line</OPINION>

There.  That's better.

Nope.  <FACT>Surface is such an overhyped BLAH product line</FACT>
That's why it's not selling.

Microsoft had plenty of time to build a tablet OS for ARM and they chose to take the easy way out in selling tablets with cooling fans.

After iOS 11 is released, PC/Desktop sales will really start to decline and Microsot will become just a Cloud company.
Time will tell.

SpamSandwich said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

danvm said:

SpamSandwich said:

The downside of the "equally matched" PC is you're stuck with Windows.

One of my customers have been working in huge projects with Autodesk Revit in Windows and Dell Precision for years, with no issues at all.  And I'm sure many other users have the  same experience.  Can you give details on why using Windows is a downside?

Ask the Windows users if they want to go to macOS. See if they think that's a downside.

Exactly. I have relatives who used Windows for much of their careers and they've never expressed a desire to go back after buying Macs.

SpamSandwich said:

The downside of the "equally matched" PC is you're stuck with Windows.

DuhSesame said:

danvm said:

DuhSesame said:

AppleInsider said:

The tablet comes in configurations with Intel Core m3, i5, or i7 processors, its i5 allegedly the first ever with fanless architecture. 

Yeah, except that fanless i5 was formerly known as core m5.

lol, Microsoft, lol.

From what I have read, the Surface Pro have the Intel Core i5-7300U, which has a 15W TDP, different from the Core m5 that has a 4.5W TDP.  IMO, it's amazing how MS went fanless with a device so small and thin as the Surface Pro.

I believe that 7300U will be the top-tier i5 option, while the "fanless" i5 will be the former m5 chip.

macxpress said:

danvm said:

macxpress said:

lkrupp said:

rogifan_new said:

Neil Cybart from Above Avalon put up a post saying the Mac is Apple's achilles' heel. Basically arguing that the Mac is a barrier which prevents Apple for giving enough attention to what comes next. John Gruber disagrees. Ben Thompson says Apple just needs to ship a damm tower and not be precious about it. I don't agree with Cybart about the Mac being a "major vulnerability" for Apple. But I also don't agree that Apple isn't shipping a new Mac Pro this year because they're being too precious about it's hardware design. I think the fact Apple didn't exist the Pro market means they're working on something bigger here. Otherwise they could've just brought back the cheese grater and been done with it. Apple doesn't put resources on something for nothing.

Hopefully Apple will consult with real pros (not the ones here) to get their input. Alex Lindsey (Lucasfilm, Pixel Corps) pretty much spelled out his desires on last week’s MacBreak Weekly show. He wants a 2U configuration with the ability to swap out HDDs/SSDs and GPUs. Yes, he wants a rack mountable Mac Pro, not a cheese grater.

Thats an interesting concept...I'm to sure that will meet most users needs, but perhaps they could offer this as a BTO. Not everyone has a rack sitting next to them. I could see that option working as a Mac server again should one need it. I'd love to see a rack mountable Mac just for that use alone. 

I can maybe see where Alex is going with that. You could create a small rendering farm with a couple (few?) rack mounted Mac Pro's. Whether or not this meets the needs of the average true pro I'm not sure. I'm not a pro so I can't honestly say. 

rogifan_new said:

Neil Cybart from Above Avalon put up a post saying the Mac is Apple's achilles' heel. Basically arguing that the Mac is a barrier which prevents Apple for giving enough attention to what comes next. John Gruber disagrees. Ben Thompson says Apple just needs to ship a damm tower and not be precious about it. I don't agree with Cybart about the Mac being a "major vulnerability" for Apple. But I also don't agree that Apple isn't shipping a new Mac Pro this year because they're being too precious about it's hardware design. I think the fact Apple didn't exist the Pro market means they're working on something bigger here. Otherwise they could've just brought back the cheese grater and been done with it. Apple doesn't put resources on something for nothing.

I'd rather Apple make it right and not just slap a bunch of parts together with an Apple logo on the side of it. If you want that, then go get an HP or a Dell. There's a reason why Apple takes as long as it does to engineer a Mac, or any product for that matter.  People like Neil will be the first to bitch too if someone Apple released has a major issue simply because Apple rushed a product out the door just to say we upgraded the Mac Pro. You're better off to do it right the first time, not the second or third. 

If you think that HP "just slap a bunch of parts together", I suppose you have no idea what Z workstations are.  They have the Z2 Mini, a workstation similar in size to the Mac Mini, all the way to the Z840, with two CPU / 44 Cores and 1TB of RAM.  They even have an All-In-One workstation, the Z1 G3.  Slapping a bunch of parts together doesn't gives you a system like the Z840,

Best of all?  HP don't wait 3 years to update their systems and have no issues with thermal design.  Compare that to what Apple does with their Pro desktops, and you'll see which one is doing the right thing. 

But in the end...it still runs Windows.