Open Letter to Tim Cook

Re:Open Letter to Tim Cook by eropple on Sunday October 30, 2016 @10:52PM (#12834004)

If your workflow is Mac-oriented, buying a trashcan Mac Pro right now is really expensive for pretty outdated hardware. MBPs are pretty much the only game in town.

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Re:Open Letter to Tim Cook by initram on Sunday October 30, 2016 @11:16PM (#12834080)

If you're doing video editing with FCPX and/or Motion, those dual GPUs in the MacPro help a lot!

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Re:Open Letter to Tim Cook by eropple on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:37AM (#12834850)

Sure, but the hardware's anemic for the price. The MBP is pretty much at the reasonable spot on the price/performance curve.

(I use an MBP as the brain of a multi-camera video studio; I totally get why one would buy a Pro. But I'd pull 100% off of Macs before buying one.)

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Re:Open Letter to Tim Cook by flukus on Sunday October 30, 2016 @11:16PM (#12834078)

There is also desktops and servers, both of which may be much better for rendering, running VMs, etc.

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Re:Open Letter to Tim Cook by eropple on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:32PM (#12839615)

There is no serious Mac desktop except for the stunningly overpriced Mac Pro.

There is no serious Mac server, period.

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Re:Open Letter to Tim Cook by flukus on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:42PM (#12842719)

If your in the apple ecosystem then you aren't worried about over priced products.

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Re:Open Letter to Tim Cook by eropple on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:25PM (#12847314)

This is...objectively wrong? The "Apple Tax" hasn't, up until the current generation and maybe (depending on your metrics) the prior one, been a serious thing for a decade. They've consistently released price-competitive systems that come with what's probably the best multi-purpose desktop OS on the planet.

Don't do the middlebrow thing. It never works.

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