ChrisCarneval

sog35 said:

Sure Bob..............
Except the last quarter (Oct-Dec2016) was the biggest quarter for Mac sales in Apple's history.

maybe take at least those seriously:

Macworld "Pros have been dissatisfied with Apple of late, and it’s not hard to see why. The so-long-in-the-tooth-it-qualifies-as-a-fang Mac Pro hasn’t been updated in more than three years, but still commands a hefty price tag. And last fall’s new MacBook Pro added the splashy new Touch Bar while seeming to skimp on practicalities like RAM and processor power."

The Verge "Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers"

The heat must have reached even Cook as he felt the need to tell his employees that Apple is committed to the Mac and that ‘great desktops’ are coming.
Which he said again at your beloved earnings call where he even addressed the pro users themselves.

They clearly know they have let down a lot of the pros.
The question is if they care enough about them now to give them what they need.

Metriacanthosaurus said:

ChrisCarneval said:

ronmg said:

greenmeenie said:

Apple has foresaken the Mac Pro, not updating it in over 3 years. Not to mention the Mac mini & iMacs. They've also discontinued their cinema displays & airport & time capsule. All they seem to be really focusing on now are their iOS devices. Their annual iPhone updates are huge events. And they seem to be touting their iPads as laptop replacements. So I seriously doubt Apple will just quietly drop the new iPad pros(including a new 10.5" bezel-less model) without holding a huge event. No way. The event will either be at the end of March or on April 4th as recently rumored. 

My God, the whining!! The majority of 'pro' users can get a 27" 5K iMac fully loaded with 4 GHz i7, 32 GB Ram, 1 TB Flash, and 4 GB Video for $3,600, add multiple screens and external hard drives, and be just fine. Apple doesn't care about the EXTREME pro users because there are maybe a thousand of those in the US - hardly enough to dedicate development time toward. So buy a fully loaded iMac or move to Windows.

Yeah, stop the whining.
Buy the almost 2 year old overpriced hardware or switch to windows.

Your "fully loaded" iMac was last updated in october of 2015 yet it still costs the same.
The GPU in that machine is a joke, the CPU is fifth gen, not even sixth, we are at seven right now, flash is overpriced as usual and forget futureproof because it doesn't even have usb-c yet.

Clearly Apple doesn't give a shit about not even mid level pro users any more or they would update their fucking desktops at least every year.

So don't give people crap about complaining because they have every reason to.
And for your suggestion to move to windows I have done that because I need a workstation and this is beyond anything apple sells right now.
BUT I would love to come back to OSX.

At the end of the day, the people who complain are Apple lovers, not haters.

Get a fucking grip on reality. There is nothing wrong with the existing Mac's to choose from, regardless of when they were last updated.

I am sure that's why every professional who is (for now) dependent on macs is so darn happy with the way Apple handles the mac, right?

ronmg said:

greenmeenie said:

Apple has foresaken the Mac Pro, not updating it in over 3 years. Not to mention the Mac mini & iMacs. They've also discontinued their cinema displays & airport & time capsule. All they seem to be really focusing on now are their iOS devices. Their annual iPhone updates are huge events. And they seem to be touting their iPads as laptop replacements. So I seriously doubt Apple will just quietly drop the new iPad pros(including a new 10.5" bezel-less model) without holding a huge event. No way. The event will either be at the end of March or on April 4th as recently rumored. 

My God, the whining!! The majority of 'pro' users can get a 27" 5K iMac fully loaded with 4 GHz i7, 32 GB Ram, 1 TB Flash, and 4 GB Video for $3,600, add multiple screens and external hard drives, and be just fine. Apple doesn't care about the EXTREME pro users because there are maybe a thousand of those in the US - hardly enough to dedicate development time toward. So buy a fully loaded iMac or move to Windows.

Yeah, stop the whining.
Buy the almost 2 year old overpriced hardware or switch to windows.

Your "fully loaded" iMac was last updated in october of 2015 yet it still costs the same.
The GPU in that machine is a joke, the CPU is fifth gen, not even sixth, we are at seven right now, flash is overpriced as usual and forget futureproof because it doesn't even have usb-c yet.

Clearly Apple doesn't give a shit about not even mid level pro users any more or they would update their fucking desktops at least every year.

So don't give people crap about complaining because they have every reason to.
And for your suggestion to move to windows I have done that because I need a workstation and this is beyond anything apple sells right now.
BUT I would love to come back to OSX.

At the end of the day, the people who complain are Apple lovers, not haters.

Why on earth would someone want a usb-c connected single spinning slow harddisk? Isn't the whole point of usb-c that it is fast?!

I can already hear the voice in my head telling me: "Warning! Hazardous radiation levels detected!"