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polymnia said:

I’ve got a T3 & a T5. love them. never going to buy a portable disk bigger than this format again. 

blastdoor said:

digitol said:

Ugh! Such a Love/Hate relation with Apple. It's clear Apple wants to go the direction of tablets and phones only. However, until an ipad can do EVERYTHING a mac pro can do . . . (where is my Xcode) then I will always be somewhat at odds. A very wise man once said "PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by one out of X people.”

One funny thing about that truck quote is that trucks are actually pretty popular. Ford and GM have almost entirely stopped making cars, at least for the US market. Of course, what's even more popular than trucks is the SUV -- something in between a truck and a car. 

42 years.

That is how long the Ford F-150 has been the top selling vehicle in the US.
Selling almost the same number as 2 & 3 combined...the Chevy Silverado & Dodge Ram.

1, 2, 3 - trucks.

commentzilla said:

hmurchison said:

Nope. 

Based on past history of just abandoning anything that takes a modicum of effort 
it would be unwise for those who are not of the Apple Sheep cloth to put much faith 
in Apple being consistent with any product at this level.    You only need look at 

5.  OS X Server turning into a toy 

Apple’s spent their money on AI companies and other ancillary technologies but they haven’t spent much effort 
into growing their Pro apps beyond routine small features and maintenance updates. 

I’d trust Apple if I had a few workstations to purchase but I’d be wary with committing to anything more than that. 

All of OS X Server's functionality is still there via the command line. In fact, it's in every copy of MacOS.

This is not true.


"Starting with macOS Server 5.7.1, Apple no longer bundles open source services such as Calendar Server, Contacts Server, the Mail Server, DNS, DHCP, VPN Server, and Websites with macOS Server. Customers can get these same services directly from open-source providers. This way, macOS Server customers can install the most secure and up-to-date services as soon as they’re available. "

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

ElCapitan said:

lkrupp said:

ElCapitan said:

lkrupp said:

Well written as usual. Unfortunately the crowd that incessantly clamors for the slotted tower of olden days at a consumer level price will not be convinced even though they have had the Hackintosh option for years now. It’s a shrinking niche as pointed out but that niche is angry and vocal so we have to put up with all the bullshit about it.

And that was the village idiot comment of the day!

Apparently the shoe fits on you. And I see your fellow choir members have already started to chime in, beating the dead horse again and again. 

Actually I think most are done beating that horse after Apple threw every macOS Server user out to fend for themselves on other platforms.
The only bit they threw at people was a mediocre "migration" paper that did not even cover some of the most important services. 

Current trash-can users probably feel the same way too. – If they still exist.

Timmy should be ashamed of himself, and they way the company have handled a large number of customers who used to be all-Apple shops. 

The last "golden age" of business & Macintosh was really 2002-2012.

We adopted the Xserve, Xserve RAID, Final Cut Pro hit its stride. OS X Server was robust & capable. Workstations were highly capable and upgraded routinely. Apple had a concrete answer to the frustrations of "creatives" in a Windows environment. 

We had a decade of adoption & delight & plans for business growth along with Apple, and then over the past 7 years have watched support be pulled out from under that foundation that was built for a decade.

Now we sit with 100s and 100s of TBs of fibre arrays, an aging 2012 MacPros loaded with 128 GB of RAM & dozens of internal TBs of storage. Cylinders that, while weren't server material, made great workstations. A "Server" that we had to stop updating a few years ago because Apple decided the majority of server tasks are not necessary, and now the monumental task of either budgeting for the expense of migrating to something brand new.


The frustration stems from businesses investing in what seemed like a commitment, but what turned out to be a fling. 

flaneur said:

Really, Andrew, “stereoscopic?” You are abusing t0at term. There is no separate left/right information in that dog portrait.

Maybe Apple is doing it too in their marketing of this pseudo-stereoscopic portrait mode, but there’s no reason for you to join them in mangling the meaning of the word.

What word are you going to use in a year or so when we really have stereoscopic, separate left/right images that are being presented to each eye separately in Apple’s iGlasses?

You are correct, there is no separation left & right, but if Apple is actually using both lenses, there would be separation up & down.

But the reason Apple & others do this isn't for stereo, it is to mimic the low depth of field inherent & compressed background inherent in a nice 80 mm f/1.4 portrait lens....think the new phone is expensive

And, for basically 2019 consumer equivalent of a 80s/90s 110 film camera, phone cameras are breathtaking! (coming as a professional photographer who still smells fix on their hands & shoots stereo images almost daily)