prismatics

StrangeDays said:

loopless said:

Our company is a heavy buyer of Dell workstations and laptops. Without exception that are unmitigated pieces of junk that barely last 2 years. The number of failures we have with Dells is tragic and they are just poorly designed built to a price throw away crap. Compared to the amazing longevity of Apple hardware there is no comparison. Just helped a friend replace his perfectly functional 2008 MacBook Pro. My 2014 27” iMac is a joy to use.

Yup. My enterprise client buys us Dell laptops and they’re historically junk. The one we just replaced sat on my desk and rarely moved, yet the flimsy plastic buttons on it failed — the damn power button scraped away and then started getting stuck under the plastic surface of the keyboard. Pathetic. It was big, heavy, janky, and ran hot, noisily blowing its fans all the time.

The latest one is better, but not nearly as good as my MBP. Something that irks me is the 15 or so McAfee background services running on it constantly, driving up the CPU cycles sometimes 25%, and routinely blowing the fans. 

It’s a shitty ecosystem, years behind MacBooks. 

At least my Dell doesn't have a silly keyboard or some silly bling bling tech that stops working after 2 months of actual use that is too expensive / time consuming to replace.

MacBook and the desktop products have become some kind of HALO Products for the mindless who have to buy the iPhone "Pro" because it makes them feel less like a mindless content consumption sheep sitting on instagram and facebook all day.

Of course Apple has a technological advantage, but that advantage is almost no longer present. OpenGL Support is dropped, major creative / professional software developers start to move to either linux or windows as their first development target platform and the macOS API madness / T2 shit / deprecation of general purpose computing through non-affordability (Mac Pro) / jokingly stupid things that simply don't work (hardware and software bugs) is driving professionals away. Of course you guys will defend it, but fact is that it's becoming hard to justify to develop professional tools for macOS when macOS is becoming a content consumption platform or some kind of garbage iOS fork not compatible with general purpose computing.

harry wild said:

All Apple needs to do is:  Switch back to old keyboard, go with 10th generation Intel CPU and loses the bezel thickness.  All are very easy to do since it up to the supplier to make the changes.  Apple does nothing!  LOL!

There is no difference between 10th gen and 7th gen. These are stickers meant to mislead the unenlightened into thinking Intel has any value left for their product

With some other irrelevant overheating intel processor and shit graphics right

A very effective way to even better manage thermals would be Threadripper. Double the performance, half the heat.

blastdoor said:

Wow $7k to upgrade to the 28 core Xeon -- Intel's prices are crazy!

The 64 core AMD Epyc costs $7k; the 32 core version costs $3400. 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen/4

Thats for the 2P, for the 1P the price is just 4.5k.