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Despite what you may have heard, don't write off the iMac just yet
The imac has always been an entry level computer for starters. It’s a college computer, a kids computer and office computer.Only briefly did Apple toy with the idea of maxing it out for pros and enthusiasts and it turns out most preferred a headless mac ALA mac mini or mac studio because no pro or prosumer would want to replace their monitor every time they upgrade their computer.Anyone complaining about the cables is being ridiculous. Between the mac studio or mac mini and the monitor there is ONE cable and the monitor serves as your hub. You can hide the box easily under the desk or on a shelf.Why would you complain about a 1/8” audio jack on the imac or random USB cables when you have thunderbolt? Literally every accessory at this point is available with thunderbolt or USB-C. Upgrade. You’ll be thankful you did.
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Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...
Corporate/ keynote writers are not and never have been part of the WGA William. Get your facts straight before you spout off nonsense.
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The new Apple Silicon Mac Pro badly misses the mark for most of the target market
Here's what's being ignored though. I have to throw out a new tower ever few years. A $7,000 tower EVERY 2-3 YEARS? No thanks. Anyone inclined to purchase a new Mac Pro Tower definitely need to be able to upgrade RAM and video cards on a machine that costs that much. Otherwise just buy a studio and a really nice TB chassis for your cards and call it a day for $5-6k. Hopefully your TB expansion chases will still be compatible when you replace the studio. If not you'll still save $$$mfryd said:
An interesting assertion.entropys said:Apple destroyed its high end pro market years ago and every now and again remembers to insult it.
The fact is that there isn't a single unified "high end pro market". At the high end, there are a wide variety of needs.
The new Mac Pro seems to provide a lot of computing horsepower. That's something useful to many high end users.
For those editing video, the Mac Pro processor has built-in hardware encoding/decoding engines, and supports multiple high resolution video screens. Real time editing/playback of multiple 8K streams is nothing to sneeze at.
The Mac Pro supports PCI cards for the import/export of video using professional industry standards (such as SDI).
The Mac Pro is available in a rack mount configuration which is extremely helpful in certain professional deployments (Broadcast TV control truck, portable video editing truck, shippable temporary editing stations, server farms, etc.).
The Mac Pro is limited to only 192GB of RAM. However, it has faster memory bandwidth than computers with memory slots, and fast SSD storage for fast virtual memory swapping. This is enough RAM to serve the needs of a great many professional workflows. While the old Mac Pro could handle over a TB of RAM, I suspect that the vast majority of them were configured with 128GB or less.
The big issue that people are complaining about is the lack of support for external video cards. Apple's built in graphics are quite impressive, but there exist video cards out there that are faster. So the market that's excluded here is that portion that needs more than what Apple provides, but can get by with what third part cards can provide. A large part of that market is video gamers. I don't think they are generally considered to be part of the "professional" market.
Another market segment looking for the fastest GPUs are those mining for crypto currency. These people generally are buying commodity computers, and not Macs.
The bottom line is that the "pro" market is only a very small percentage of the total Mac market. Only a small percentage of that pro market needs more than 192GB of RAM and/or third party GPUs.
So while it's true that the Mac Pro is not ideal for every professional who wants a Mac, it certainly meets the needs of most professionals.
Literally the only advantage the new Mac Pro offers is PCIE in a chassis which tends be more reliable and perform better than connecting the same PCIE cards of TB. That's it. The new tower is a complete mystery if they couldn't include upgradeable ram and video cards. IF Apple didn't want to work with NVIDIA or AMD or couldn't come up with a way of upgrading RAM they shouldn't have bothered with the new tower and left it as the only intel model. The market the tower was intended for was better served with x86 for at least the next few years. This feels like a rush job.
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Final Cut Pro said to be available for Apple Vision Pro at launch
I couldn't imagine how uncomfortable this would be at the end of a 10 hour edit day. Previewing your work perhaps, but actually editing all day? No thanks. Maybe a few edits here and there for simple social media post, but we're working on a documentary or serial for TV workflow? I have serious doubts and expect some serious caveats.
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Apple Silicon Mac Pro does not support PCI-E Radeon video cards
As long as all you need is TB4 Bandwidth at 4GB/s. The PCIE slots on the Mac Pro have almost 32GB/s. For high speed IO there's little comparison.keithw said:Sonnettech has a complete line of PCIe/TB4 external chassis for PCIe cards. This would allow the necessary I/O without investing in a Mac Pro. I've been using a Sonnettech eGPU enclosure for many years with my 2107 iMac Pro. It houses my AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, which (I believe,) still provides better Metal performance than even the highest spec M2 Ultra. I guess we'll see with the benchmarks...
