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Bravo, everyone on the PC side has great options now, but I feel for Mac "Professionals". Sad they just got straddled with the horrendous over priced and under

Bravo, everyone on the PC side has great options now, but I feel for Mac "Professionals". Sad they just got straddled with the horrendous over priced and under performing Xeon platform. It boggles my mind why Apple would release a $6k model that will get trounced by these chips for a fraction of the price. I know the expand-ability is what you are buying into, but I imagine 90% of Mac Pro customers could care less about terrabytes of memory or a video solution that improves current vram limits. Add to all of that the gimped performance you are going to get on the Intel parts with the latest security patches.

stcredzero 7y ago
I feel for Mac "Professionals". Sad they just got straddled with the horrendous over priced and under performing ____ platform. Funny, but by making the name of the platform a blank, this applies just as much to 2005 as it does to 2019. http://lowendmac.com/2015/remembering-the-final-powerpc-macs/ http://lowendmac.com/2015/remembering-the-final-powerpc-macs...
robdachshund 7y ago
I have a hard time feeling bad for "professionals" that haven't realized that apple products are and have been a scam for about 20 years now. There was a small period in time where power macs were good workstations. Now they sell 6000 dollar cheesgraters and i9 laptops that throttle to a lower speed than their i7 models, with soldered on memory and storage. Steve jobs may have been a bit greedy, but ol Tim has brought things to an extreme. It's pretty bad when your brainwashed userbase starts ditching macbooks for thinkpads.
thirdsun 7y ago
Apple must have had an interest in going with AMD - the fact that they didn't makes me think that getting macOS ready as a productive, reliable OS on AMD CPUs isn't as trivial as we might assume. Also, is Thunderbolt even an option with AMD?
- mbfg 7y ago
  Isn't the iMac a better option then the Mac Pro? It certainly is from a performance per buck option, but perhaps just in general?
- bstar77 7y ago
  I think you nailed it... Thunderbolt is not possible on AMD.
  - NightlyDev 7y ago
    It is...
- NightlyDev 7y ago
  I see no reason why that should be a problem. And yes, AMD has thunderbolt too.

stcredzero 7y ago

I feel for Mac "Professionals". Sad they just got straddled with the horrendous over priced and under performing ____ platform. Funny, but by making the name of the platform a blank, this applies just as much to 2005 as it does to 2019. http://lowendmac.com/2015/remembering-the-final-powerpc-macs/ http://lowendmac.com/2015/remembering-the-final-powerpc-macs...

robdachshund 7y ago

I have a hard time feeling bad for "professionals" that haven't realized that apple products are and have been a scam for about 20 years now. There was a small period in time where power macs were good workstations. Now they sell 6000 dollar cheesgraters and i9 laptops that throttle to a lower speed than their i7 models, with soldered on memory and storage. Steve jobs may have been a bit greedy, but ol Tim has brought things to an extreme. It's pretty bad when your brainwashed userbase starts ditching macbooks for thinkpads.

thirdsun 7y ago

Apple must have had an interest in going with AMD - the fact that they didn't makes me think that getting macOS ready as a productive, reliable OS on AMD CPUs isn't as trivial as we might assume. Also, is Thunderbolt even an option with AMD?

mbfg 7y ago
Isn't the iMac a better option then the Mac Pro? It certainly is from a performance per buck option, but perhaps just in general?
bstar77 7y ago
I think you nailed it... Thunderbolt is not possible on AMD.
- NightlyDev 7y ago
  It is...
NightlyDev 7y ago
I see no reason why that should be a problem. And yes, AMD has thunderbolt too.