nadriel

wood1208 said:

If Apple made decision to move to non-butterfly keyboard than why wait. Do it in Fall 2019 Macbook Pro/Air upgrade. Anticipation, later in a year Intel's 10nm processors based upgrade is expected. Only reason it get pushed out to 2020 is because Apple is making major upgrade to MBA/MBP including moving to ARM.

More likely. Keyboard switch will be with new design iteration, so with MBP likely next WWDC. MBA is late year baby so it might be this year and the basic MB has been long ignored. 10nm intel would be nice to have ASAP.

Apple won’t be moving to ARM this year, next year or the year after that with Macs. Whatever geekbench tests give with ARM processors, they can’t really compete with x86_64 architecture with more complicated instruction sets, since geekbench very likely doesn’t do that complicated testing schemes. ARM processor with all the x86 instruction sets would be an x86 processor with different memory management...

But it as always there are workarounds and with Apple’s resources they might get to ARM macs, but not next year. 

viclauyyc said:

maestro64 said:

Does anyone know where these will be made, I am assuming it will be stateside. This will also explain why the internet world did not have insight into the spec of the machine prior to the announcement. US manufacturers know how to keep their mouths shut.

Given the price of the Mac Pro, I will not be surprise if it is made on Mars.

Does anyone know how much is a max out Mac Pro will cost? Not that I can afford it. 

Apple does, the rest of us can guess. Maybe 10k for just the custom top GPU. 

Without feeling too much like googling for you I’d guess the top end is around 55-60k

top end enterprise stuff cost a lot. Doesn’t matter whose the seller. If it is rack mountable you can easily go over 40 k for the whole potato.

I could see my department investing on one or two of those. Since the old crunchers are getting a bit inadequate. 

I would replace papers with Mendeley for managing papers and handling references. And it’s free.

mactex or any other latex typesetter for writing the papers on Mac. And I prefer texpad on iOS since it can typeset offline. It does cost tho

Notes, voice memos and any word processor for note taking. Vim works too.

Then the tools that I need for the research: programming skills (C, python most commonly), Mathematica (if you want free look for sage, or all the packages it uses) and a whiteboard. I don’t use Xcode, but I could. I just don’t like the environment compared to vim with syntax highlighting. I delved into OS X from Linux during studies, since it's a good working environment and still has the roots in Unix-like world I was accustomed to.

And I want to give a shout-out for homebrew and git!