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In regards to the eMate 300: that was probably Apple's most successful Newton product, so saying "Apple stopped selling it because its production wasn't sustainable." is not really correct. Apple stopped selling it because Steve Jobs wanted to focus the company on the core business, which was doing poorly because Apple had, upon ousting John Sculley, started licensing the Mac OS to clone makers in a race to the bottom. It's the Mac business which is more like the Chromebook business, not the eMate. It was nice to see it mentioned, though. There's a documentary coming out about Newton soon. You should Google it. ;-)

Well, if everyone can get over the fact that you (obviously) need a bazillion gigabytes of RAM to do anything useful with a computer, Apple have been consistently delivering products for professionals (except photographers, you guys are still dead to them). The only real problem with the Mac Pro "trash can" and the (horrific!) new MacBook Pro is the price tag, and I think everyone here knows it. These are very capable computers, up to almost any task you could throw at them. In the software realm Apple has been quietly updating Final Cut and Logic, so love them or hate them, they are moving forward.

The FCPX team has really hit their groove. Final Cut has become such a great product (I'm an editor and I now use it every day, having transitioned from FCP7->PremiereCS6->FCPX), it's such a relief for a dedicated Mac user like me (who is "meh" about iPhones) that Apple is continuing to work on excellent Mac software, despite a few bumps on the way.

It's a great computer, the only problem I have with it is the price! I think that that's probably really the problem for most people, even if they pretend they have high philosophical reasons for not buying it.

To comment on those who are critiquing altivec88 and as a fellow Pro Mac user, the issue is not that he can't run his business with the 2013 Mac Pro, but that the uncertainty of whether he should be using Macs in a pro environment at all is causing pro's a lot of stress, myself included. We can't tell if we should be waiting a few weeks when we need to add or replace a workstation, for Apple to finally give us a reason to happily continue using mac towers, or sadly switch to Windows when we need a new machine with high-end specs. Deep down we know that it isn't really that hard for Apple to do these things, so they probably just don't care anymore, and that makes pros everywhere feel... :-(