Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad

Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by dagw on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:43AM (#9393185)

I suspect the €1000+ laptop market is going to keep shrinking

Possibly, But the high end laptop mark is eating into the workstation market from the bottom now that 32GB and and decent Quadro cards are common in laptops. At work basically all our CAD and 3D modelling people use laptops, whereas a few years ago they all had workstations. Same seems to be happening with video and music production. Even more and more of the gamers I know are option for laptops over desktop computers.

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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by pjmlp on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:54AM (#9393221)

However a Macbook Pro is not a viable product when compared with a ThinkPad W540 in terms of features/price for 3D related work.

More expensive and less powerful GPU.

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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by dagw on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:59AM (#9393240)

Oh agreed. Apple has no presence is this market. My point was about the market for expensive laptops in general.

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Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad by pjmlp on Friday April 17, 2015 @08:27AM (#9393823)

As a gamer that is one of the reasons I never bought a Mac laptop even though I was a big NeXTStep fan.

My home is desktop free since 2003 and as you say, Apple does not fulfill such market.

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