darkpaw

I wish Apple would put quite a bit of money behind artists normal people actually like. We aren't all teenage girls.

Maybe Apple could add a feature to never include Ed Sheeran in any playlists ever. It's getting a bit tedious trying to listen to a curated playlist that changes every week, but it always has a song by him in it.

I don't like him, I cannot stand his music, and I have no way of telling my Music app to just skip over his stuff.

I have the ASUS PA328 32" 4K UHD IPS Display, one number below the PA329 reviewed here, and I connect it to a Late-2013 Mac Pro.

The monitor will not display an image via DisplayPort when I start up the Mac. I have to use HDMI on boot until I am logged in and staring at my desktop.

If I boot the Mac before I attach the HDMI cable, then the monitor will not recognise that I've just plugged a cable in, so I have to reboot the Mac (which is difficult to do when you can't see anything on the screen). I have to hold in the power button for 10 seconds and hard boot it.

After booting, if I leave both the DisplayPort and HDMI cables attached, the mouse stutters. If I switch source input to DisplayPort and leave both cables attached, I will see the image, but the mouse stutters.

This monitor or the Mac Pro can't cope with two cables being plugged in from the same source, so I have to remove the HDMI cable.

Then, if I reboot... repeat the process all over again.

The speakers are fine, but the controls for changing volume are annoying. They are not tied into the Mac, so you can't just use the volume keys.

I wish I'd known all this before I spent £800 on it. They may have fixed some of these issues with the PA329, but I doubt it.

What this article seems to ignore is that we need Macs to write apps for every single iOS device out there. Without the Mac there would be no iOS, and if Apple keep paring down their offering, people won't be able to write apps because they won't want to be forced to buy something they aren't 100% invested in.

Some people prefer laptops for app development, some prefer desktops. Some need the cheapest Mac (the Mac mini) because they have a great app idea but don't have $1000 to try it out, and some are writing huge apps that need the raw processing power of a Mac Pro. It's not just "professionals" who buy the Mac Pro. Lots of people like to have the best they can afford. Not everyone is an uninformed consumer who just buys the low-end iMac because it was on display.