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22july2013 said:

Two of you said or implied that my aesthetics is bad. You might be right, by your standards of beauty. But if there's one aesthetic expression I have lived by, it is "function is beauty." If something is amazingly functional, I consider it beautiful. A pregnant woman looks beautiful to me. Another reader in this thread, Evilution, explained how his speakers don't work properly. No matter how pretty they may look to him or you, I would consider them ugly. Because they don't function well.

22july2013 said:

Of all the square footage in my house, the most premium location is the 24 by 6 square inch rectangle in front of my keyboard. I am not giving that space up easily. If a speaker mounted on top of iMac instead, that wouldn't be a problem. I can't see any technical reason why it couldn't mount on top. It would have to make a little gap for my iMac's camera, but if there were smart, they could include a lever that let me cover and uncover my camera for security reasons. Most of the time it would be covered.

mwhite said:

GeorgeBMac said:

Trump is creating a war against China and Chinese companies (as well as Iran) to distract from the exposures of his own corruption and criminality.

Unfortunately it won't be he who suffers but America and Americans. 
Meanwhile the rest of the world is sliding away from the U.S. as Trump elects the failed "go it alone" strategy of the Bush Administration where the only countries who support his policies are those who have been bullied into it.

This is unlikely to end well.
Particularly now that the U.S. has to sell a Trillion dollars of bonds a year to finance Trump's Taxscam.  The U.S. is vulnerable -- especially as China has already loaned the U.S. over a Trillion dollars.  Frankly, we need them more than they need us.

BS.....

lkrupp said:

bitmod said:

Rayz2016 said:

lkrupp said:

I personally predict that whatever the new Mac Pro turns out to be it will be trashed viciously by the self-agrandized techie crowd. These types want to be able to saunter into a Fry’s or Micro Center, pick out some weird peripheral, stick it into their “Mac Pro” and have it work. That doesn’t even happen with self-assembled PCs but it will be a requirement for any new Mac Pro. You just watch and see.

AI Pro:
 I have no intention of ever looking inside this machine, but I want it to be bristling with SCSI ports and USB A to X. I want to be able to pick up an untested Gobsmak 800 1TB Graphics Card from Honest Don's Hardware Shack and stick it in the case because I read somewhere that's what real pros do.

Apple's real pro customer:
I want this machine to do stuff I need it do, and then do more stuff when I need it to do more stuff. I'm too busy to care how you do it, just as long as you do it.

...said the guy with an iPhone, so he really understands pros.
Name 1 company or individual that fits your profile of this ‘real pro customer’... 

Alex Lindsay of Pixel Corps and he has said almost exactly that on MacBreak Weekly many times. And he’s a real, real pro, having worked at Lucasfilm and then started Pixel Corps. Lindsay regularly criticizes Apple over their pro hardware (or lack thereof) but he stated he doesn't have the time to be swapping out graphics cards and fiddling with drivers. He has actual work to do and he wants Apple to produce a pro machine that does the job and is maintainable/upgradeable... EASILY. AI pros, on the other hand, would like to fiddle and experiment and argue over which graphics card can complete a task 5 milliseconds faster than another card. And no, the AI pros are not real pros because if they were they wouldn’t have the time to post on a measly tech blog trashing Apple all the time. They’d be working their asses off to meet deadlines and complete customer projects on time.