Google| Subject | Re: As with our trolls, the problem wasn't the Mac Pro itself... It's the problem with the morons wh |
| From | sms |
| Date | 02/18/2014 16:24 (02/18/2014 07:24) |
| Message-ID | <ldvtuk$1d7$1@dont-email.me> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | -hh |
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On 2/18/2014 6:11 AM, -hh wrote:
-hhHowever the Mac Pro and Windows workstatons are not aimed at the "general PC market." They are being sold to power users doing non-linear video editing, CAD/CAM, and other CPU and graphics intensive tasks. They need multiple TB hard disks in a RAID array, multiple graphics cards, memory card readers, etc. "The Cloud" isn't a big help unless the user has a Gb/sec connection.
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:30:35 AM UTC-5, Brake Dive, Acceleration Squat, Body Roll Works LLC wrote:-hhGaryBrake Dive, Acceleration Squat, Body Roll Works LLC
mac pro is owning the pro desktop space once again, so your stupid comments are pointless.
Whatever. I'm not buying that unexpandable piece of shit.
A reasonable position given the context of a desktop PC. However, the broader market perspective is that towers are a 'dying breed' niche market, as roughly 80% of the general PC market in the West already consists of "unexpandable" products in the form of laptop computers.
The Mac Pro is expandable, in a sense, if you're okay with having all the devices plugged into the cylinder and in some cases into the wall. The appeal of a tower PC, as boxy and aesthetically unappealing it may be, is that you don't need all those separate devices, cables, and power supplies. It sits out of the way under a desk so the size is really not an issue.
The Mac Pro is actually very competitively priced compared to workstations with similar processing power and graphics.
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