Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the State of Apple’s Pro Macs

Re:Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the Sta... by Eric_WVGG on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:32AM (#14057381)

I would wager that about a quarter of Mac Pro sales go to developers, at most. They sell tons more to 3D and CAD designers, scientists (the old NeXT was a favorite of theirs, you might recall), even musicians (who love the "trash can" because it's portable and quiet).

P.S. I'm one of those folks like you who spent his teens and twenties building gaming rigs, and around the time I turned 30 I realized this stuff wasn't fun for me anymore. I just wanted to plunk down some money and make "the computer problem" go away. I became more interested in what I was doing with computers than monkeying around with them in the garage. Don't dismiss developers who just want to buy a box and forget about it.

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Re:Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the Sta... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday April 07, 2017 @06:04AM (#14058481)

I recently built a custom uber-PC for music and machine learning.

10 cores, 64GB of fast RAM, 2TB superfast SSD, a 1080Ti graphics card, and it still costs less than a trashcan Mac with a much lower spec.

I hate Windows with a passion. Given the choice I would rather stay with macOS. And I would rather just buy something than stress about whether I'm wearing enough static protection bracelets not to nuke a £1500 processor.

But when the product I need literally doesn't exist - and apparently won't exist for at least another 12 to 18 months - it was a forced decision.

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Re:Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the Sta... by KSS42 on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:34AM (#14060539)

Did you use ECC RAM?

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