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  • Apple working on redesigned iMac, two Mac Pros, cheaper display for 2021

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    “The second variant, equipped with an Apple Silicon chip, could be about half the size and feature a design that ‘could invoke nostalgia for the Power Mac G4 Cube,’ Bloomberg reported.”

    I really liked the Mac Pro 2013. I didn’t purchase one because display size and quality are so significant for me and the iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) came onto the market just prior to my point of purchase, with no prospect on the horizon for a 5K display. I would purchase a full-size Mac Pro, but a more compact one built around Apple silicon would be magnificent!

    Apple, please build the Mac Pro 2022 in the USA! (Or possibly 2021, timed for an NAB 2021 release (October)).
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  • Trump expects Apple to build manufacturing plant in Texas

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    How much more vexing are the sassy dismissals that tell the public to rejoice at the prospect of cheaper cars and TV sets, which they can no longer afford, and advise them to seek jobs growing soy beans or servicing bank accounts. This, remember, is a replay of the advice John Bowring gave the member states of the German Zollverein in 1840: grow wheat, and sell it to buy British manufacturers. This was a sublime example of economic good sense; but Germany would have been the poorer for it. Today’s comparative advantage, we have seen, may not be tomorrow’s.
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    David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), 521.
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  • Trump expects Apple to build manufacturing plant in Texas

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    American taxpayers and military personnel bear the greatest burdens for keeping the world safe for commerce. If Apple accorded their humanity the respect they do green initiatives, then this would already be done, even if heavy with robotics.

    My money awaits a Designed in California/Made in the USA Mac Pro!
    Why not let China do the shitty jobs, like mass production in cityfactories, by people who were told by the government what trade to learn.

    Let the US do the things they are good at. Manufacturing isn’t one of those things.

    Why pay extra to let Americans do stuf they don’t like and are not good at?
    I’ve worked in a fish processing plant before. I expect that making Mac Pros would be a significant step us from racking fish for the freezer!

    Not all of my neighbors have “design minds” and yet they still possess a personal culture of industry. We should support them with the same passion that we do other humanitarian goals.

    Tim took to Alabama the message that we not accept that “it can’t be done”, and then he gave a commencement speech at Stanford talking about “accepting responsibility”. Let is be so!

    Apple is excellent at what they invest themselves in. They can succeed here too. They will if they Think Different about their neighbors who put their lives on the line to sustain the worldwide commerce wherewith Apple profits so immensely.
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  • Apple's new Mac Pro is being manufactured in China

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    “It has sometimes been said, that slavery is necessary, because the commodities they raise would be too dear for market if cultivated by freemen; but now it is said that the labor of the slave is dearest” (Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography).

    “as yet our manufacturers are as much at their ease, as independent & moral as our agricultural inhabitants, and they will continue so as long as there are vacant lands for them to resort to; because whenever it shall be attempted by the other classes to reduce them to the minimum of subsistence, they will quit their trades and go to labouring the earth” (Thomas Jefferson to John Lithgow, January 4, 1805).

    Supporting freemen is high among my priorities and thereby my budget is prioritized to pay them, to support human rights. I expect better of Apple’s management who live safely ensconced amid liberty while foregoing the opportunity to support their neighbors who bear significant burdens of this liberty but who aren’t among the worlds top “design minds,” neither have available to them “vacant lands … to resort to.”
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  • Mac Pro's lessons learned will trickle down to all 'Pro' products, says project lead

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    jumpcutter said:
    No one asked for a 6K monitor anyway. 
    I did, and more! In 2015 I wrote Phil Schiller asking for an 10K display: sufficient for 8k images plus palettes, toolbars, and windowing. (I also asked for “it to work with a VESA mount or a standard base”, and Apple delivered beautifully!) 

    In March of 2000 I purchased the original Cinema Display, an outlay of $4,000, and reaped vastly increased productivity. Users of the Apple’s 6K Pro Display XDR will reap a similar harvest. $4,000 in 2000 works out to $5,900+ in 2019; come this fall it should be almost exactly equal to a $4,999 display and a $1,000 stand! :-)

    In time, with Thunderbolt 4, larger “Retina” displays and higher frame rates on 6K will likely become available, and if so, then I’ll be cheering!

    (I work with maps and 10,000x10,000 pixel film scans (56mmx56mm), and with any luck Hasselblad will release a 100+ megapixel square format camera).
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