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> What are Pros supposed to do in the mean time? Keep buying PCs I guess. > How much would it cost R&D to update the Mac Pro? I hope/think that Apple is thinki
by gutnor 9y ago
> What are Pros supposed to do in the mean time? Keep buying PCs I guess.
> How much would it cost R&D to update the Mac Pro?
I hope/think that Apple is thinking that bringing back the cheese grater or in other word a PC running MacOS is not going to be enough to bring back the pro. They need to come back with something that has something unique.
The TrashCan failed but you can see where Apple was going. A small, silent, powerful machine infinitely customisable on the fly via TB.
So of course if failed and this attempt has a good chance to fail too. I'm not quite sure that Apple has in its DNA the deep understanding of the type of Pro that are not content with either the iMac Pro or MBP in the same fashion they get the consumer sphere. It is just that for a long period of time the intersection between the 2 world was large but are now diverging. Perfectly happy for me to be wrong though.
- sangnoir 9y ago> I hope/think that Apple is thinking that bringing back the cheese grater or in other word a PC running MacOS is not going to be enough to bring back the pro. Before they can think of "bringing back the pro", they need to stop the bleeding: pros who need to upgrade this year have no choice but to go PC. An upgraded cheese-grater would have been a good stop-gap while they go back to the drawing board on their 2019 product.
- copperx 9y agoCertainly. Right now I program Rails on an old 2012 MBPr. I want to get a faster machine. Possibilities: 1) Spend 5k on a iMac Pro. That's an absurd amount of money. 2) Get a new MBP limited by USB C, new keyboard, and the abominable Touchbar. That's a lot of money for a downgrade. 3) Get a decent specced iMac or Mac Mini. Most viable option. 4) Ditch Rails, start learning .NET, so I can go Windows 100% to build my own PC. I save money. I lose a lot of time. 5) Build PC, install Linux. Viable but might be a configuration nightmare. I just want to work. 6) Run Linux under Windows host as a VM. Second most viable option. I'm pretty frustrated. Suggestions?
- 88 9y ago7) Build a Hackintosh
- jdhn 9y agoWhile I have a Hackintosh, I'm not sure I'd want to get one if it was my primary computer. Granted, I haven't had any problems with mine, but all it takes is an update from Apple to break or brick it. Native Macs don't have that issue.
- dogma1138 9y agoIts also a legal risk to do any kind of billable work on a hackintosh.
- copperx 9y agoIt might be unethical, but the risk is zero. Apple isn't going to sue you. Running unlicensed Windows is a significantly bigger risk.
- pjmlp 9y agoThe risk is pretty real, see my other thread. If you don't have a legal office declared for business activities to the regulators, then yeah it might be zero.
- jonhendry18 9y agoIf you have a real Mac/Macbook and a Hackintosh it would probably be hard to prove which was used for the work.
- pjmlp 9y agoExcept if you happen to live in a country where goverment authorities are entitled to search your office for illegal software. Then good luck in court.
- s2g 9y ago> They need to come back with something that has something unique. Why?
- ropeadopepope 9y ago> They need to come back with something that has something unique. That would be MacOS itself. That's all they need to bring a huge number of Pros who bailed on the entire Apple ecosystem back into the fold.
- nicolas_t 9y agoWell yes, but macOs was also much less buggy and much more stable a few years ago than now. I miss the days of Snow Leopard which was rock stable. But until they bring back that stability, macOs won't be sufficient an argument to bring back pros I think