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  • Apple debuts new $5999 Mac Pro with up to 28-core Xeon processors

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    docno42 said:
    dcsimages said:
    Just for context, my first Mac was a 33mHz Quadra 950 with a 400 MB hard drive, 16 Mb ram and 1Mb vram for $7500 ($9600 when it first came out)
    The IIfx maxed at $10,970 which is almost $22,000 in today's dollars, started at half that which is still twice as much as this box.

    lols at people freaking out over $5K computers.  My Mac Plus with external floppy, ImageWriter II and accessories was almost $4K in 1987 dollars.  Almost $700 for a 40mb (megabyte!) external SCSI hard drive...  yeah, people are spoiled!
    It doesn't matter how much logic one uses.  The kiddies on this forum doing all the whining were most likely not born yet during these days or were still in diapers.  Add to that the entitled free-for-all that the Internet has allowed people to believe that everything should be free, or practically free that anything costing any kind of money is blasphemous and/or greedy.
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  • Apple debuts new $5999 Mac Pro with up to 28-core Xeon processors

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    davgreg said:
    netrox said:
    Love how amatuers complain about the costs of Mac Pro... it's for Professionals making lots of money... not for amatuers living on a few hundreds. 
    Not true.
    There are people who need workstations that are not rolling in money. People like scientists and engineers.
    The Pro market extends way beyond the media business.

    This is another nice engineering exercise but leaves a gaping hole between the Mac mini and this. A version with something less than an 8 core Xeon CPU could be offered for substantially less.
    Wrong.  It is true.  This workstation will be used by companies as tools.  They are a tax write-off and depreciation. 
    Scientists and engineers work for companies... again... tools = tax write-off and depreciation.

    You are implying that this machine is meant for you when it is clearly not.  

    There are perfectly acceptable solutions RIGHT NOW to accommodate less folks.  iMacs and iMac Pros, Mac Minis... they suit the other 98% just fine.  You're also implying that Apple will not evolve those current non-Pro desktop lines.  For all you know, the next iMac may have a 8-12-core CPU, or more...

    Just stop.

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  • The Apple Pro Display XDR brings 6K to the Mac for $4999

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    vukasika said:
    $5000 Display LMAO!!!!
    Please show me a competitor's monitor with the exact same specs, color calibration, display size, TB3 ports, screen coating for less and see if you're still laughing.
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  • Apple's iPad is the king of a declining European, Middle Eastern tablet market

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    I still remembered years ago being at a client site and the owner asking me to help some techs connect their iPads to the corporate WiFi network.  These techs were complaining that the WiFi network was complete crap and would not allow the iPads to work.  Even I was intrigued by this and wanted to help.

    Turns out these "iPads", were Chinese knockoffs that the techs bought online from some sketchy Chinese vendor brand new for $30.  They were running some shitty Android OS and the UI was an exact knockoff of iOS but going anywhere deeper than one level on the settings panel showed immediately that it was not an Apple product.  The screen was similar in response to a palm pilot and required a hard, physical touch/drag to use.  

    The OS was so incredibly bad, the CPU (whatever it was) was so agonizingly slow that it was pure torture to use.  WiFi just would not work on this piece of junk.  

    After showing the techs my findings, I told them they were on their own.  The fact these techs believed these Chinese knockoffs were actual iPads was a testament to their stupidity and failure of our educational system.  Fortunately, I had my iPad at the time and I showed them mine next to theirs and asked them how would they ever thing theirs would pass off as the real thing.

    They attempted to contact the company.. in China of course, and the company said they would have to send the units back to them and were not responsible for shipping charges.  Shipping one would cost more than the actual unit.  

    I was able to get one tech to fess up and he admitted that the only reason he bought it was because he couldn't afford a real iPad.  I understand people not having money, but I told the tech that had I charged him for my time in troubleshooting his $30 piece of junk, he could have purchased a real iPad that worked on the first try.

    These Chinese iKnockoff vendors have zero shame.  It's crap like this that makes me happy that someone - anyone - is taking a stand against China for once.
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  • Fresh App Store monopoly lawsuit arrives after US Supreme Court ruling

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    rcfa said:
    About time!
    Can’t mix walled garden with selective access, or else it turns into regulating speech and commerce in a time where things increasingly happen on the smartphone.
    No single company can be allowed to be gatekeeper to an entire market.

    Have you always been this ignorant, or was it acquired?
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