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Hello All, i am the OP of: https://petersphilo.org/#post-71 https://petersphilo.org/#post-71 Just wanted to add a couple of things: Pro hardware can exist and

Hello All, i am the OP of: https://petersphilo.org/#post-71 https://petersphilo.org/#post-71 Just wanted to add a couple of things: Pro hardware can exist and has existed at Apple for most of its existence, please look back at the post and comments for evidence.. My point was not that Apple should choose between 'pro' hardware and consumer/boutique hardware, in fact, Apple has a long tradition of keeping both happy.. Maybe Apple really isn't interested in the Mac any more, or even in developers. But who makes the apps, the games, etc.. Why not keep power users, keep their 'street cred' as the 'creative platform' and make a little (a lot, actually) scratch on the side... Old geezer cries out: Can't we all just get along?

pjmlp 10y ago
Developers on Mac were always using the same computers as everyone else. I don't remember having a Mac Classic Pro or a LC Pro and so forth.
- dasil003 10y ago
  Very odd your selective memory. You don't remember the Macintosh IIfx?
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    No. Back in those days the Mac was almost nonexistent in Portugal. There was just one official importer, Interlog, and buying anything Mac related meant traveling to Lisbon. So the first time I actually programmed on a Mac was in 1994, on Classic and LC models. The only ones available on the university campus on a single room! I think there were around 10 there. The remaining ones were located in the IT department, used by the secretaries and a few teachers.
    - dasil003 10y ago
      Ah! Boa tarde, então ;) So you were using education-targeted macs, but there were always pro-level computers from Apple ever since the very early days (Lisa, Apple IIGS, Power Mac G3, G4, G5, etc). It's only once they discontinued the cheese grater Power Mac that things started to get pretty bad for users who need expansion and massive power.

pjmlp 10y ago

Developers on Mac were always using the same computers as everyone else. I don't remember having a Mac Classic Pro or a LC Pro and so forth.

dasil003 10y ago
Very odd your selective memory. You don't remember the Macintosh IIfx?
- pjmlp 10y ago
  No. Back in those days the Mac was almost nonexistent in Portugal. There was just one official importer, Interlog, and buying anything Mac related meant traveling to Lisbon. So the first time I actually programmed on a Mac was in 1994, on Classic and LC models. The only ones available on the university campus on a single room! I think there were around 10 there. The remaining ones were located in the IT department, used by the secretaries and a few teachers.
  - dasil003 10y ago
    Ah! Boa tarde, então ;) So you were using education-targeted macs, but there were always pro-level computers from Apple ever since the very early days (Lisa, Apple IIGS, Power Mac G3, G4, G5, etc). It's only once they discontinued the cheese grater Power Mac that things started to get pretty bad for users who need expansion and massive power.