You aren't wrong, but here's the thing. When apple merely stops doing something insidious that most computer makers never do and never have done, that's not a plus for apple. That's one less negative at best. At BEST. I work as a video editor and I won't be paying for one of these. PCs are just more competitive. Companies have bottom lines and that's really the hard fact they can't solve.
I wasn't imagining that they did it purposefully to allow upgrades. Just figured that this particular motherboard was economical and available in the correct quantities.
Yup, as predicted, there's a comment whining about Apple's significant upgrades to the iMac line. Grow up, kiddies.
Enough with the childish references. Finding 5400RPM spinning rust in 2017 Apple hardware is like buying a million dollar home and finding vinyl flooring. There is simply no other excuse other than being very cheap. I also wouldn't call 8GB worth of memory a 2017 "wow" factor either.
The actual significant event here was finding that Apple managed to get help for their solder addiction to revert back to the old way of building hardware. One hell of an "upgrade" path.
And everyone should be thankful Apple did this, for I can assure you the amount of obscene profit Apple was demonstrating with a sealed-box design full of solder was moving to become the standard for every other maker of hardware.
Now let's hope they continue to downgrade their laptops.
You can get several BTO upgrades on these iMacs, and 8GB and 5400 RPM spinning rust is still pretty standard on base-level configs for everyone.
If you want to replace the hard drive, you're certainly able to do so.
After slicing through the adhesive that secures the 4K display to the iMac's housing and removing the power supply, hard drive, and fan... Similarly, after detaching the heatsink and removing the warranty voiding stickers on the backside of the logic board... making it possible to replace or upgrade the CPU...
So you basically have to deconstruct the whole thing and lose any kind of warranty, but it is technically possible I suppose.
By the time you want to upgrade those things, you will likely be beyond the warranty period.
Bullshit. Trump's people explicitly said they were not going to invoke executive privilege. You people need to quit acting like there's a "gotcha" there. Even if it gives you temporary relief from the fact that the Harridan isn't prez.
Excuse me. If Trump's lawyer is faithfully discharging his DUTY to "zealously defend his client" (Generally, Rules of Professional Conduct, in the Preamble), then he had a DUTY to counsel Trump to invoke Executive Privilege.
The fact that he did not, barring incompetence on the attorney's part, points to the fact that he was obeying another Rule of Professional Conduct (3.1, IIRC), which states (paraphrasing) "An attorney may not set forth an argument or legal theory which he knows is frivolous or is against the known facts."
IOW, unless Trump's lawyer was either incompetent or secretly working for the other side, he had a DUTY to counsel Trump to invoke Executive Privilege unless he knew it was never going to fly.
Yeah, and a lot of folks insist we never went to the moon and that the government blew up the twin towers. I don't see what that has to do with anything?
1. We did go to the moon.
2. The government may very well have blown up the Twin Towers.
You apparently missed the whole kerfuffle during the election where Comey did his damnedest to submarine Hillary Clinton's shot at the presidency. Go check the records. He made announcements concerning Hillary Clinton that amounted to scare tactics. And he did it just before election day! Some people still insist his injection of himself into the political arena at that time is the reason why we do not have a second President Clinton.
So he runs his mouth about unsubstantiated facts concerning Hillary Clinton in the run up to the election, but can't see his way to make a statement about a fact he is 100% certain of, namely that the current president is not under investigation?
You figure that one out and get back to me. Looks pretty unhinged and incoherent to me.
As Comey said previously before Congress: He was in quite the pickle when the Anthony Wiener emails showed up at the last second before the Election. If he kept quiet about it, then that would surely come out later, and he would be accused of favoring the Dems. If he said something, then he would be accused of favoring the 'publicans.
You apparent missed those Hearings. Go check the records. I'll wait...
And yesterday, he stated that, at the time of his firing, he was not aware of Trump himself being a Target of an FBI investigation, which is as far as he can go with surety. So, what's your problem, again?
Ugh... the Mac Mini... The machine with so much wasted potential that I literally block its existence out of my memory until someone brings it up.
There's plenty of room in there for socketed CPU and RAM, a pair of m.2 slots, and space to mount a 2.5" drive, which would open up configuration options to allow Apple to offer everything from a $300 bare-bones model on up to a $several-thousand ultraportable workstation.
They could literally own the school, office, and home desktop space. I'd love to see that happen.
And yes, I think it would make an excellent "home hub"; they could even release a $100-200 ARM based version specifically for that purpose, with AC in, ethernet, and as many USB-C/TB3 ports on the back (and nothing else) as they can fit. Throw in wi-fi and sell a TB3 ethernet switch module and an option and it could replace the Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme as well, using all those USB-3/TB3 ports to support a multitude of external disks.
Hell, maybe only provide a pair of USB-C/TB3 ports in the $100 model, 4 in the $200 model, and sell a $500 Pro model with, say, 8 of them. It would make a hell of a NAS and, with the optional ethernet switch module, a decent SOHO router as well.
" The content of those discussions probably fall under executive privileged communications and will continue to be so even after Comey left office. "
Which would mean that Congress can't compel Trump to provide such documentation. It has no bearing on whether or not Comey can legally disclose what happened in the meeting. Further, it almost certainly doesn't apply because Trump spoke about the conversation in public.
If Trump's lawyers thought there was ANY way to invoke Executive Privilege and make it stick, today's hearing simply wouldn't have even occurred.
"Today, Mr. Comey admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the President.
The leaks of this privileged information began no later than March 2017 when friends of Mr. Comey have stated he disclosed to them the conversations he had with the President during their January 27, 2017 dinner and February 14, 2017 White House meeting. Today, Mr. Comey admitted that he leaked to friends his purported memos of these privileged conversations, one of which he testified was classified. He also testified that immediately after he was terminated he authorized his friends to leak the contents of these memos to the press in order to "prompt the appointment of a special counsel.""
You're lying.
Comey didn't have his friend release his memo about the meeting with Trump until AFTER he was fired.
And in any event, it doesn't matter at all; since the memo contained exactly ZERO classified or even sensitive information. No National Security interests were involved. Just a fucking snake of a President.
I agree that it's not illegal. But I think this is what got him fired. If I knew the son of a bitch was sending stuff to the press trying to sabotage me I'd dump him too.
Why wouldn't you just send a note to the justice department and let them handle releasing a statement to the press? It was their investigation. I don't think Comey is political in the sense of doing favors for someone or being partisan, but he certainly has seems to have a an over-inflated sense of personal importance. I worked in government for many years and if there is a hot potato that you can hand off to another agency you sure as heck did that for the good of your own career and for the people working under you. I found what he did rather astonishing if you want to know the truth.
He was the head of the FBI. In this Country, that's fairly fucking important.
Well, then, hopefully this is the start of a massive rectal craniectomy for Apple's leadership. If it is, my next round of hardware upgrades (years out as everything was either just bought or just upgraded in the past 7 months) might just be from Apple again.
I'll be VERY interested to see what Apple's idea of a "Modular Mac Pro" is; and whether there is any hope for the Mac mini, which is pretty-much the PERFECT "front-offices" business machine, and could be EASILY turned into a decent "Home Hub", if only...
I'll admit I didn't sit and do a breakdown of the iMac Pro, I've been too busy lately. If the base model is truly a pro-level machine, unlike what the MacBook Pro has become recently, then $5000 might, indeed, be a fair price tag. Thank you for taking the time to break that out for me.
Past that, I wouldn't really say 4 years to turn around from the trash can, which people complained about from day one (while they still had production lines in place for the old Mac Pro model and could have reverted course in months rather than years), is "quick". If they were truly listening to users, the trash can would have been killed off and the 1st gen Mac Pro would have lived on. What they did eventually listen to was the abysmal sales of the trash can.
While the eventual outcome is the same, actually listening to users gets us there faster. You just need someone like Jobs around to know what to listen to and what to ignore; that's what's missing today.
No problem. Everyone makes the same mistake when complaining about Mac prices being "so high".
We actually don't know how "abysmal" the sales of the Trash Can were. I think Craig Federici (sp?) was right in April when he said that "For a certain class of creative Professional, the 2013 Mac Pro worked great."
I have always contended that the only miscalculation that Apple made regarding the Mac Pro, was betting the farm on the rapid adoption of Thunderbolt; which, thanks to Intel's moneygrubbing and controlling ways, has only JUST NOW started to bear fruit. With SIX TB 2 Connectors on the Trash Can, OBVIOUSLY Apple thought that the peripheral industry would immediately start buying-into TB, and start offering all manner of RAIDs, Audio and Video I/O, External Graphics and perhaps even Expansion (RAM) Storage, etc. THEN, the Trash Can WOULD HAVE looked like the "Wave of the Future" it actually WAS in 2013...
But, Apple shares some blame there, too; because they were already distracted by the phenomenal sales of iOS Devices, and clearly dropped the ball in not "seeding" the TB Peripheral Market with at LEAST a TB RAID and a TB Expansion Chassis.
But, with the talk about the "Modular Mac Pro" and the existence of the External GPU Kit, it seems like Apple is going to start taking a more "aggressive" role in pushing the advantages of ThunderBolt. Personally, I would have liked to have seen 4 USB-C/TB3 and 2 USB 3 connectors on the (non-Pro) iMacs, and SIX USB-C/TB3 connectors (and 2 to 4 USB 3) on the iMac Pro, instead of 4 USB 3 and 2 USB-C/TB3 connectors on the Non-Pros, and 4 and 4 on the iMac Pro.
But it still means that the iMac Pro has more I/O Bandwidth than the 2013 Mac Pro. Complicated to figure how much more; but definitely "more".
Oh, and I forgot about the 10gigE on the iMac Pro. That isn't available on the non-pro iMac at ALL. Another "Value Add" on the iMac Pro, for those 10 people on the planet that can take advantage of it!;-)
Speaking of #1, I'd like to once again voice my hate, not of Apple, but of their current leadership and the direction they are taking the company.
I feel that they purposely set the iMac Pro up for failure with its baseline price tag being so high and the fact that the only user-upgradeable component is RAM (and I'm not positive they haven't soldered that onto the board at this point). It's like they want out of the pro market altogether and are trying to get professional users to drop them like a hot rock.
I saw it coming and jumped back to Windows once Microsoft got Bash on Windows (e.g. a full Ubuntu chroot on Windows) functional enough to run my IDE and testing environment. I need a POSIX or POSIX-like environment, and I need the ability to run a few industry-related applications that don't run on Linux (or that's where I'd be), but I also need to hitch my horse to a carriage that I know is going to be around in a capacity that is useful to me year after year.
Apple keeps making it clear to me that, unless I'm willing to spend $5k+ per workstation per year, I can't have the latest and greatest with them. With a PC workstation, I can upgrade my GPU when that becomes the bottleneck ($400-600), upgrade my CPU when that becomes the bottleneck ($250-500), upgrade my RAM when that becomes the bottleneck ($100-800), upgrade my storage when that becomes the bottleneck ($80-infinity), and maybe replace workstations every 5-10 years at a cost of $2000-4000 apiece.
As I grow my business (and I already see the ACs furiously typing away to tell me I don't have a business to grow), while I could likely weather the $5k/yr cost per employee, I'd rather reduce that as much as possible and provide more tangible benefits and pay to my employees. If that means my offices are filled with PCs, then that's what will happen.
And workplaces are becoming more and more competitive; a company that can afford better health plans or $4000/yr more in pay is going to attract better talent than a company that gives new hires a shiny new Mac rather than a PC.
The interviews I've done recently have borne that out, as well. The guy I ultimately ended up extending a job offer to is a big-time Mac fan, but he voiced that he's more than happy working on a $600 PC laptop if it means his medical benefits and paid time off package are that much better.
Apple still thrives in VC-funded startups, because it's not the CTO's money being spent. There's a reason so many of them fail. In businesses spending their own funds, Apple's footprint has been so rapidly shrinking, over the past 5 years or so, that they're largely nonexistent outside of iPhones for on-call employees and iPads and MacBooks as executive toys.
That's what I hate about Apple
They could own the business segment and we'd all be better for it. They were on track to do it back in 2010, but they've since repositioned themselves as a fashion brand. If they reverse course on that (and hopefully I'm wrong about the iMac Pro and that's actually what they're doing), I don't think it's too late for them to fix things. However, if people don't speak up about the problem, Apple won't hear us and, well, it may take years for their cash reserves to run out but, ultimately, Apple will fail.
Fashion brands rarely completely disappear, as they'll always find an audience; but they do fall out of favor and lose 99% of their market. It's usually a 5-10 year cycle and Apple's about half way through 5 years as a fashion brand. That should give some indication of how long they have to once again become a computer company if they want to still be relevant in 2037.
I completely disagree about the iMac Pro. Have you seen the pricing for the i9 CPUs? And 27" 5k Monitors aren't so cheap, neither!
And remember, I believe the MINIMUM config. is 8 Cores and 32 GB RAM and 1TB SSD, with a Radeo Pro Vega 56 with 8 GB of fancy-dancy HBM2 VRAM. It all adds-up.
The compromise is that High Sierra + 1 will give a warning every time you launch a 32-bit app saying that your app won't run in High Sierra + n (for some unknown value of n).
The owner of a PC running Windows 10 S can buy an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for $50. The owner of an iPad Pro has to pay about thirteen times that much for a Mac mini, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
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You aren't wrong, but here's the thing. When apple merely stops doing something insidious that most computer makers never do and never have done, that's not a plus for apple. That's one less negative at best. At BEST. I work as a video editor and I won't be paying for one of these. PCs are just more competitive. Companies have bottom lines and that's really the hard fact they can't solve.
Then enjoy your Windows 10, Spyware Edition!
Seeya!
"This particular motherboard"? Do you really think Apple puts regular ATX/mini-ITX/etc motherboards in their computers?
Yes, these slashtards actually DO think that.
I wasn't imagining that they did it purposefully to allow upgrades. Just figured that this particular motherboard was economical and available in the correct quantities.
They roll their own motherboards, idiot.
Yup, as predicted, there's a comment whining about Apple's significant upgrades to the iMac line. Grow up, kiddies.
Enough with the childish references. Finding 5400RPM spinning rust in 2017 Apple hardware is like buying a million dollar home and finding vinyl flooring. There is simply no other excuse other than being very cheap. I also wouldn't call 8GB worth of memory a 2017 "wow" factor either.
The actual significant event here was finding that Apple managed to get help for their solder addiction to revert back to the old way of building hardware. One hell of an "upgrade" path.
And everyone should be thankful Apple did this, for I can assure you the amount of obscene profit Apple was demonstrating with a sealed-box design full of solder was moving to become the standard for every other maker of hardware.
Now let's hope they continue to downgrade their laptops.
You can get several BTO upgrades on these iMacs, and 8GB and 5400 RPM spinning rust is still pretty standard on base-level configs for everyone.
If you want to replace the hard drive, you're certainly able to do so.
After slicing through the adhesive that secures the 4K display to the iMac's housing and removing the power supply, hard drive, and fan... Similarly, after detaching the heatsink and removing the warranty voiding stickers on the backside of the logic board... making it possible to replace or upgrade the CPU ...
So you basically have to deconstruct the whole thing and lose any kind of warranty, but it is technically possible I suppose.
By the time you want to upgrade those things, you will likely be beyond the warranty period.
What is the upgrade from? A 3600 RPM Conner HDD?
Hey, if it was good-enough for the Lisa...
Bullshit. Trump's people explicitly said they were not going to invoke executive privilege. You people need to quit acting like there's a "gotcha" there. Even if it gives you temporary relief from the fact that the Harridan isn't prez.
Excuse me. If Trump's lawyer is faithfully discharging his DUTY to "zealously defend his client" (Generally, Rules of Professional Conduct, in the Preamble), then he had a DUTY to counsel Trump to invoke Executive Privilege.
The fact that he did not, barring incompetence on the attorney's part, points to the fact that he was obeying another Rule of Professional Conduct (3.1, IIRC), which states (paraphrasing) "An attorney may not set forth an argument or legal theory which he knows is frivolous or is against the known facts."
IOW, unless Trump's lawyer was either incompetent or secretly working for the other side, he had a DUTY to counsel Trump to invoke Executive Privilege unless he knew it was never going to fly.
Which must mean...?
So you went to Purdue then went off to jackoff on the West Coast. That explains a lot.
Apparently not.
Didn't go to Purdue, and still in Indiana, fucktard.
I do still jackoff, though. Thanks for asking!
Yeah, and a lot of folks insist we never went to the moon and that the government blew up the twin towers. I don't see what that has to do with anything?
1. We did go to the moon.
2. The government may very well have blown up the Twin Towers.
You apparently missed the whole kerfuffle during the election where Comey did his damnedest to submarine Hillary Clinton's shot at the presidency. Go check the records. He made announcements concerning Hillary Clinton that amounted to scare tactics. And he did it just before election day! Some people still insist his injection of himself into the political arena at that time is the reason why we do not have a second President Clinton.
So he runs his mouth about unsubstantiated facts concerning Hillary Clinton in the run up to the election, but can't see his way to make a statement about a fact he is 100% certain of, namely that the current president is not under investigation?
You figure that one out and get back to me. Looks pretty unhinged and incoherent to me.
As Comey said previously before Congress: He was in quite the pickle when the Anthony Wiener emails showed up at the last second before the Election. If he kept quiet about it, then that would surely come out later, and he would be accused of favoring the Dems. If he said something, then he would be accused of favoring the 'publicans.
You apparent missed those Hearings. Go check the records. I'll wait...
And yesterday, he stated that, at the time of his firing, he was not aware of Trump himself being a Target of an FBI investigation, which is as far as he can go with surety. So, what's your problem, again?
Ugh... the Mac Mini... The machine with so much wasted potential that I literally block its existence out of my memory until someone brings it up.
There's plenty of room in there for socketed CPU and RAM, a pair of m.2 slots, and space to mount a 2.5" drive, which would open up configuration options to allow Apple to offer everything from a $300 bare-bones model on up to a $several-thousand ultraportable workstation.
They could literally own the school, office, and home desktop space. I'd love to see that happen.
And yes, I think it would make an excellent "home hub"; they could even release a $100-200 ARM based version specifically for that purpose, with AC in, ethernet, and as many USB-C/TB3 ports on the back (and nothing else) as they can fit. Throw in wi-fi and sell a TB3 ethernet switch module and an option and it could replace the Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme as well, using all those USB-3/TB3 ports to support a multitude of external disks.
Hell, maybe only provide a pair of USB-C/TB3 ports in the $100 model, 4 in the $200 model, and sell a $500 Pro model with, say, 8 of them. It would make a hell of a NAS and, with the optional ethernet switch module, a decent SOHO router as well.
Ah, well, we can dream, right?
I agree with every bit of that.
" The content of those discussions probably fall under executive privileged communications and will continue to be so even after Comey left office. "
Which would mean that Congress can't compel Trump to provide such documentation. It has no bearing on whether or not Comey can legally disclose what happened in the meeting. Further, it almost certainly doesn't apply because Trump spoke about the conversation in public.
If Trump's lawyers thought there was ANY way to invoke Executive Privilege and make it stick, today's hearing simply wouldn't have even occurred.
Your penance will be dealing with Pence, and may whatever God you believe in have mercy on you for that.
Being from Indiana, that is one of my greatest fears, honestly.
both were covered by the official records act...they belonged to us
Even if he typed it at his own home, on his own computer?
Sorry, no.
That his agenda appears completely unhinged and incoherent is even more troubling.
After seeing some of Trump's tweets (and I'm not talking "Covfefe" here), you think COMEY is the "Unhinged and Incoherent" one?!?
Yeahrightsure.
It actually started before the leaked memo.
"Today, Mr. Comey admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the President.
The leaks of this privileged information began no later than March 2017 when friends of Mr. Comey have stated he disclosed to them the conversations he had with the President during their January 27, 2017 dinner and February 14, 2017 White House meeting. Today, Mr. Comey admitted that he leaked to friends his purported memos of these privileged conversations, one of which he testified was classified. He also testified that immediately after he was terminated he authorized his friends to leak the contents of these memos to the press in order to "prompt the appointment of a special counsel.""
You're lying.
Comey didn't have his friend release his memo about the meeting with Trump until AFTER he was fired.
And in any event, it doesn't matter at all; since the memo contained exactly ZERO classified or even sensitive information. No National Security interests were involved. Just a fucking snake of a President.
I agree that it's not illegal. But I think this is what got him fired. If I knew the son of a bitch was sending stuff to the press trying to sabotage me I'd dump him too.
Trump was the one attempting sabotage.
Comey was just "outing" him for doing it.
BIG difference!
Why wouldn't you just send a note to the justice department and let them handle releasing a statement to the press? It was their investigation. I don't think Comey is political in the sense of doing favors for someone or being partisan, but he certainly has seems to have a an over-inflated sense of personal importance. I worked in government for many years and if there is a hot potato that you can hand off to another agency you sure as heck did that for the good of your own career and for the people working under you. I found what he did rather astonishing if you want to know the truth.
He was the head of the FBI. In this Country, that's fairly fucking important.
Well, then, hopefully this is the start of a massive rectal craniectomy for Apple's leadership. If it is, my next round of hardware upgrades (years out as everything was either just bought or just upgraded in the past 7 months) might just be from Apple again.
I'll be VERY interested to see what Apple's idea of a "Modular Mac Pro" is; and whether there is any hope for the Mac mini, which is pretty-much the PERFECT "front-offices" business machine, and could be EASILY turned into a decent "Home Hub", if only...
I'll admit I didn't sit and do a breakdown of the iMac Pro, I've been too busy lately. If the base model is truly a pro-level machine, unlike what the MacBook Pro has become recently, then $5000 might, indeed, be a fair price tag. Thank you for taking the time to break that out for me.
Past that, I wouldn't really say 4 years to turn around from the trash can, which people complained about from day one (while they still had production lines in place for the old Mac Pro model and could have reverted course in months rather than years), is "quick". If they were truly listening to users, the trash can would have been killed off and the 1st gen Mac Pro would have lived on. What they did eventually listen to was the abysmal sales of the trash can.
While the eventual outcome is the same, actually listening to users gets us there faster. You just need someone like Jobs around to know what to listen to and what to ignore; that's what's missing today.
No problem. Everyone makes the same mistake when complaining about Mac prices being "so high".
We actually don't know how "abysmal" the sales of the Trash Can were. I think Craig Federici (sp?) was right in April when he said that "For a certain class of creative Professional, the 2013 Mac Pro worked great."
I have always contended that the only miscalculation that Apple made regarding the Mac Pro, was betting the farm on the rapid adoption of Thunderbolt; which, thanks to Intel's moneygrubbing and controlling ways, has only JUST NOW started to bear fruit. With SIX TB 2 Connectors on the Trash Can, OBVIOUSLY Apple thought that the peripheral industry would immediately start buying-into TB, and start offering all manner of RAIDs, Audio and Video I/O, External Graphics and perhaps even Expansion (RAM) Storage, etc. THEN, the Trash Can WOULD HAVE looked like the "Wave of the Future" it actually WAS in 2013...
But, Apple shares some blame there, too; because they were already distracted by the phenomenal sales of iOS Devices, and clearly dropped the ball in not "seeding" the TB Peripheral Market with at LEAST a TB RAID and a TB Expansion Chassis.
But, with the talk about the "Modular Mac Pro" and the existence of the External GPU Kit, it seems like Apple is going to start taking a more "aggressive" role in pushing the advantages of ThunderBolt. Personally, I would have liked to have seen 4 USB-C/TB3 and 2 USB 3 connectors on the (non-Pro) iMacs, and SIX USB-C/TB3 connectors (and 2 to 4 USB 3) on the iMac Pro, instead of 4 USB 3 and 2 USB-C/TB3 connectors on the Non-Pros, and 4 and 4 on the iMac Pro.
But it still means that the iMac Pro has more I/O Bandwidth than the 2013 Mac Pro. Complicated to figure how much more; but definitely "more".
Oh, and I forgot about the 10gigE on the iMac Pro. That isn't available on the non-pro iMac at ALL. Another "Value Add" on the iMac Pro, for those 10 people on the planet that can take advantage of it! ;-)
True on all accounts.
Speaking of #1, I'd like to once again voice my hate, not of Apple, but of their current leadership and the direction they are taking the company.
I feel that they purposely set the iMac Pro up for failure with its baseline price tag being so high and the fact that the only user-upgradeable component is RAM (and I'm not positive they haven't soldered that onto the board at this point). It's like they want out of the pro market altogether and are trying to get professional users to drop them like a hot rock.
I saw it coming and jumped back to Windows once Microsoft got Bash on Windows (e.g. a full Ubuntu chroot on Windows) functional enough to run my IDE and testing environment. I need a POSIX or POSIX-like environment, and I need the ability to run a few industry-related applications that don't run on Linux (or that's where I'd be), but I also need to hitch my horse to a carriage that I know is going to be around in a capacity that is useful to me year after year.
Apple keeps making it clear to me that, unless I'm willing to spend $5k+ per workstation per year, I can't have the latest and greatest with them. With a PC workstation, I can upgrade my GPU when that becomes the bottleneck ($400-600), upgrade my CPU when that becomes the bottleneck ($250-500), upgrade my RAM when that becomes the bottleneck ($100-800), upgrade my storage when that becomes the bottleneck ($80-infinity), and maybe replace workstations every 5-10 years at a cost of $2000-4000 apiece.
As I grow my business (and I already see the ACs furiously typing away to tell me I don't have a business to grow), while I could likely weather the $5k/yr cost per employee, I'd rather reduce that as much as possible and provide more tangible benefits and pay to my employees. If that means my offices are filled with PCs, then that's what will happen.
And workplaces are becoming more and more competitive; a company that can afford better health plans or $4000/yr more in pay is going to attract better talent than a company that gives new hires a shiny new Mac rather than a PC.
The interviews I've done recently have borne that out, as well. The guy I ultimately ended up extending a job offer to is a big-time Mac fan, but he voiced that he's more than happy working on a $600 PC laptop if it means his medical benefits and paid time off package are that much better.
Apple still thrives in VC-funded startups, because it's not the CTO's money being spent. There's a reason so many of them fail. In businesses spending their own funds, Apple's footprint has been so rapidly shrinking, over the past 5 years or so, that they're largely nonexistent outside of iPhones for on-call employees and iPads and MacBooks as executive toys.
That's what I hate about Apple
They could own the business segment and we'd all be better for it. They were on track to do it back in 2010, but they've since repositioned themselves as a fashion brand. If they reverse course on that (and hopefully I'm wrong about the iMac Pro and that's actually what they're doing), I don't think it's too late for them to fix things. However, if people don't speak up about the problem, Apple won't hear us and, well, it may take years for their cash reserves to run out but, ultimately, Apple will fail.
Fashion brands rarely completely disappear, as they'll always find an audience; but they do fall out of favor and lose 99% of their market. It's usually a 5-10 year cycle and Apple's about half way through 5 years as a fashion brand. That should give some indication of how long they have to once again become a computer company if they want to still be relevant in 2037.
I completely disagree about the iMac Pro. Have you seen the pricing for the i9 CPUs? And 27" 5k Monitors aren't so cheap, neither!
And remember, I believe the MINIMUM config. is 8 Cores and 32 GB RAM and 1TB SSD, with a Radeo Pro Vega 56 with 8 GB of fancy-dancy HBM2 VRAM. It all adds-up.
If you crank up the highest-
If you need to emphasise a portion of your text to make a point then you are a really poor communicator.
That's why there have been italics and boldface typography for literally, CENTURIES.
You are an insufferable moron. Please die immediately.
Memory Footprint.
The memory foot print for a 32 bit Application is significantly smaller than for a 64 bit one.
Memory footprint of the OS.
The compromise is that High Sierra + 1 will give a warning every time you launch a 32-bit app saying that your app won't run in High Sierra + n (for some unknown value of n).
Not much of a "Compromise", then.
The owner of a PC running Windows 10 S can buy an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for $50. The owner of an iPad Pro has to pay about thirteen times that much for a Mac mini, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Still an Apples and Windows comparison.
(see what I did there?)