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Amazon doesn't need to justify their decision to anyone but shareholders. They don't have to sell anything in their store they don't want to. For any reason. It doesn't even have to be a good one. And if you insist on badgering them to explain their reasoning, understand you will get an unsatisfying PR response.

However, if a product is compelling enough, and customers ask for it over & over, the store will likely consider carrying the product (or developing the app).

And here we are.

loopless said:

rob53 said:

tipoo said:

That's...Honestly not as high as I expected it would go! The tower Mac Pros and Power Mac G5s could get well into decent car territory. 

My only wish is it was more configurable, I need a lot of CPU for my big data workload, but Vega Pro is a wasted cost, while someone training Metal 2 neural nets would go max GPU. Hope the Mac Pro provides that ability to min/max different components. 

Maybe you need to look at your data workload and see if a change in program will allow you to use more GPU computing power. Most of the supercomputers are using GPU processing anyway so I'd look into your workflow and see what can be changed.

 
Wrong. Many algorithms are not suited to GPU computing. GPUs are not the be all and end all for HPC. Most HPC clusters are vanilla Linux box’s without GPUs. 

And...most people don’t write their own software. So configuring a machine to match the kind of software I need to use is more realistic than me refactoring Photoshop to better use my GPU. 

Someday (cue dreamy harp strumming) I’ll be able to buy a MacPro and drop in a card that the Adobe engineers have optimized for the modern features of Photoshop & Lightroom. Isn’t that nVidia these days?

anyway, until then, the iMac Pro a helluva stopgap measure. 

Wasn’t the SE/30 the original Pro all-in-one?

i know it was a long time ago. 

The SE/30 was the machine on which I first learned Freehand & Page(Rage)Maker. 

I love how they just got this one in before the buzzer went off on 2017. Seems to be the typical Apple Pro Machine launch script now. 

grifmx said:

nice computer. it's Pro, until you get a bad drive, and have to scramble to rent another machine to meet a deadline while it takes days to a week at Apple to replace a drive, which should be a 5 minute job, if they'd put a drive access door on the back! "THOU SALL NOT INSTALL YOUR OWN RAM AND DRIVES" -APPLE

Easy solution: buy two  

k2kw said:

The real question is if this can be done much cheaper than FaceID.   If it can and if it is as secure as TouchID then its better than FaceID.  This is better because you wouldn't need to have a big, ugly notch.   FaceID will be scene as the Betamax of authentication.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you do not have an iPhone X. Face ID is better than Touch ID. 

Exhibit A: no authentication touch necessary to open a banking app, sign in to pay or sign in to an account. 

Once you you remove the authentication gesture, you’d be surprised how low friction security becomes.

More like the Netflix of authentication.