frank777

I don't post here a lot anymore, but I just read 8 pages of this thread. The level of malcontent here with the new Pro is off-the-charts crazy.

Listen, it only makes sense that Apple is kicking off the Pro by catering to those with sky-high budgets. It's just good business and ensures they capture all the money on the table. In addition, they're launching a new TV service. Having a new, must-have system to be mailed out to a producer who signs on, is probably worth it as a deal-sweetener.

In 12-18 months, they'll debut a trickle-down system with an i9 (or better yet, multiple ARM chips) for the publishers, illustrators and coders.
That's good business too. (The only question is whether the iMac Pro survives. I really don't see a need for both.)

Take heart, people. Years of grumbling about the state of the Mac brought us back the cheese-grater (whatever Apple says, it's just a modernized cheese-grater) that we all asked/begged for. That the Display and Stand are so ridiculously priced out of reach is actually the best sign that a more mainstream system catering to the non-video pros is going to follow.

sportyguy209 said:

Affinity has knocked it out of the park! This is what many Adobe users (and former users) have been looking for. Not only excellent stand alone software that can be purchased, but the workflow is incredible! I wonder how long it will take Adobe to implement a similar concept into their software.

I own all three of Affinity's programs: Photo, Designer, and Publisher. This is a strong software trilogy to compete against Adobe's Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign for those who don't like, or accept, their rental model.

I bought Photo, though I liked Pixelmator's UI better. But Pixelmator's team has had a decade and can't seem to get CMYK up and running.
Affinity got it right, but I still haven't left Photoshop because I've had issues adjusting to Photo's UI.

As it moves forward, this trilogy should become a real contender.

The team I can't figure out is Quark. They had all the pieces necessary to build a low-cost entry-level family of apps to get people interested again, and they kept banging their heads against the same brick wall for decades. This is what Jobs meant when he said Apple needed to accept the loss to Windows and move on to the Next Big Thing. The results speak for themselves.

rain22 said:

Will have to check it out. Although, anyone using an app like this is most likely sending it to a printer - so unless you are adept in pre-press and have your PDF files perfect, your printer will have to have it as well. 
Will have to see if industry embraces it.

The industry does not need to embrace it. This isn't 1998.

There's this cool thing called a Press-Ready PDF file, which is how everybody in the industry sends their work to a printer.

macronin said:

Just like it says above, this is from an article about possible Mac Pros, this article was about a month or so before WWDC 2013...

Thunderbolt Pro is what whomever created the image is calling TB2...

Okay, I get it. Didn't realize the image was from that far back.

macronin said:

This was from a speculation article about a month or so before WWDC 2013...

Thunderbolt 4 was weird enough. What is Thunderbolt Pro?