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Apple Hires CEO of Yves Saint Laurent To Head Special Projects
alphadogg writes "Apple has hired Paul Deneve, until Tuesday the CEO of French luxury brand Yves Saint Laurent, to work as its vice president for special projects, igniting fresh speculation about possible new product launches including a TV or wearable computing devices such as a smart watch. He'll be reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook. Unsurprisingly, the company doesn't want to elaborate on what kind of special projects Deneve, who has worked at Apple in the past, will be working on. But the hire has resulted in analysts speculating, and wearable computing is on top of the list."
If you don't have anything to report, then don't report. Enough with worthless speculation.
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They could be bringing him on in order to introduce a new brand of perfume.
iSmell.
French designed black-and-white-and-flattened handbags are coming.
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the new Mac Pro design is anything but boring
It's anything but good too.
I mean, unless you want exactly what's in the can it comes in. Then its great.
But usually people ordering desktop workstations want a higher degree of control over what is inside it, and above all they don't want to be ripped off.
I expect the Mac Pro will be plausible value for what is in it the day its released, but it won't be refreshed anywhere nearly fast enough, while the price will be held the same, until like the last mac pro you end up shaking your head that they would even try to charge that cutting edge price for technology that was 1 to 2 generations behind what you could get from anyone else.
The most anybody usually upgrades a graphics workstation (what this is mainly meant for) is expanding RAM
That precisely because that's the ONLY thing its any good at. By not giving us more flexibility its too expensive / ill suited to be anything else.
CPU and graphics are usually pretty stable, upgraded at the next machine purchase, although sometimes graphics is updated (and Apple is seriously future-proofing that with dual integrated cards)
Quite the contrary. Graphics, in a graphics workstation might get upgraded annually or every 2 years. That's a fraction of what I'd expect the base platform to last. Apple has shot that in the foot with completely custom form factor cards.
. Storage? Anybody who does any type of serious work wouldn't use in-machine storage anyway, so why bother putting it in the machine? They'd use a fast connection to external storage like a SAN.
What if they already have a SAN? What if they need fibrechannel? What if -gasp- they want a desktop computer for something that isn't a "graphics workstation"? Can I buy a thunderbolt to 16gbps fibrechannel adapter? In theory thunderbolt can do the speed... but does the adapter exist? At what price? I mean the only people on the planet who are likely to need a 16gbps fibrechannel to thunderbolt 2 adapter are people who bought a new mac pro and already have a SAN...
Now I -know- I'm in the minority, but I still regularly work with proprietary stuff accessed via PCI and PCI-express boards. So now I'm getting what? A thunderbolt to pci-express expansion chassis for each one. Yeah... that costs as much as a regular PC.
Or I can just buy a normal machine with expansion slots.