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hobbesmaster posted:I'm kinda curious what Apple uses internally. i assume they issue MacBooks pro and have build servers or something. what would those servers run on? azure cloud
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qirex posted:I'd guess the desktop team is full of nice lads and ladies who mean well but all upper management cares about is iPhones and laptops because they make more money apple only needs two classes of device: one that runs ios apps one that makes ios apps and realistically the ipad pro could probably satisfy both
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jony neuemonic posted:still using the last quad-core mini over here, so i'd be into this. i resorted to getting a mbp that never leaves my desk when my 2011 dual core mac mini was getting a little too slow for me id buy an up to date quad core mini in a second
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Aug 12, 2017 18:51
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infernal machines posted:apple only needs two classes of device: ugh coding on a iPad Pro. swift playgrounds is nifty to play with but ugh iMacs can cover the latter today. so long as you don't need to do any prerendering
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mishaq posted:i resorted to getting a mbp that never leaves my desk when my 2011 dual core mac mini was getting a little too slow for me yeah, the worst part is this thing will probably become unsupported before it ever feels too slow but 
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I think when Steve passed a bunch of their leadership deceived themselves into thinking they were part of the magic. Steve can tell people what they're going to like, so why can't we? apple looks to early 2000s quark, says hold my beer
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Aug 12, 2017 19:09
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mishaq posted:give us the mac mini pro timb a Mac nuc but with a proper cooler would be great, too bad its never going to happen
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Aug 12, 2017 20:28
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tim bring back the airports extreme you fuckman
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Aug 12, 2017 20:35
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infernal machines posted:i can understand how it happens, but it's so incredibly obvious, you have to assume the product group actively dislikes their customers they just care about products that sell in the millions a lot more than products that don't. hobbesmaster posted:I'm kinda curious what Apple uses internally. i assume they issue MacBooks pro and have build servers or something. what would those servers run on? MacBook regular or pro for everyone. most developers used to have cheese grater mac pros but use an iMac these days. build servers used to be Xserves (lol) for far too long after they stopped making them. these days it's probably some cloud thing that I don't know anything about.
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Aug 12, 2017 21:05
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I caught my S0 Sport in a hydraulic wood splitter yesterday. Can't really tell it happened except for a small gash on the side and some chipping and heavy scuffing on the HR monitor. 
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Aug 12, 2017 22:12
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The Management posted:they just care about products that sell in the millions a lot more than products that don't. that stands to reason, but then why make "pro" devices that people with professional workloads can't use and don't want?
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Aug 12, 2017 22:34
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infernal machines posted:that stands to reason, but then why make "pro" devices that people with professional workloads can't use and don't want? here's a hint: maybe they're not aimed at actual pros, but instead, the "prosumer" demographic who thinks that they are pros and really is interested in looking like they have pro tier stuff and has a ton of money to spend on looking more pro than others despite being functionally fine with the normal tier poo poo its just for looks duh
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Aug 12, 2017 22:36
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prosumers will always chase what they think the pros are doing, though, so if all the pros jump ship then so will the prosumers.
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Aug 12, 2017 22:59
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Doc Block posted:prosumers will always chase what they think the pros are doing, though, so if all the pros jump ship then so will the prosumers. thats like 99% wrong tho the prosumers have no real idea what the pros are doing they've maybe worked 2 degrees of separation from the real pros and maybe got a glimpse of pro tier gear but never touched it and wouldnt be able to even connect it to their "prosumer" gear anyway cuz the interfaces are most likely different (Ethernet vs. Fibre Channel, HDMI vs HD-SDI, what have you...) but hey, that dark slate-grey pro imac just Really Projects It's Powerful Because It's Slate Grey Not Light Grey will surely be just as powerful as your Dodge RAM 4x4 w/ Tim The Toolman Taylor Grunt Noise Generator
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Aug 12, 2017 23:13
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Sniep posted:Dodge RAM 4x4 w/ Tim The Toolman Taylor Grunt Noise Generator don't hate
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Aug 12, 2017 23:26
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just used a pad pro with the pen and it was good
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Aug 13, 2017 00:46
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I can get a $1300 laptop with a 40 gigabit interface and that is still mildly cool (too bad there isn’t really anything to plug into it yet)
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Jimmy Carter posted:I can get a $1300 laptop with a 40 gigabit interface and that is still mildly cool (too bad there isn’t really anything to plug into it yet) xps 15?
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Sniep posted:the prosumers have no real idea what the pros are doing but that's my point. a lot of prosumers just cargo cult the pros. buying high end cameras to make youtube videos, etc. and when prosumers hear pros saying that macs are no good for pro-level work anymore and are leaving the platform (which they are), so do the prosumers, without really understanding why. prosumers not really understanding just how not-pro they are has no bearing on whether or not they'll stick with macs after the pros have gone. Doc Block fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Aug 13, 2017 |
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Aug 13, 2017 06:45
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Prosumer is an aesthetic it's not aping the pros.
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Hey neat they've kept the target mode functionality in the new thunderbolt 3 macs https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462 Also IP over thunderbolt https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25217 Someone please try networking a bunch of macs using nothing but usb-c cables and see how many hops you can do before it all falls apart 
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r u ready to WALK posted:Hey neat they've kept the target mode functionality in the new thunderbolt 3 macs no target display mode tho which is a bit of a bummer
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The Management posted:MacBook regular or pro for everyone. most developers used to have cheese grater mac pros but use an iMac these days. Hopefully not the 5,400rpm spinny disk iMacs? 😯
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MrMoo posted:Hopefully not the 5,400rpm spinny disk iMacs? 😯 fusion drive ftw
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r u ready to WALK posted:Hey neat they've kept the target mode functionality in the new thunderbolt 3 macs a few years back someone at the office actually succeeded in making a fully-connected hadoop cluster with 7 trash cans and 21 thunderbolt cables to see how well metal tasks would work in hadoop i think they used it for a month and then moved on to other work. the macs pro are still sitting unused on a table near his desk what a waste of computing power
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Generic Monk posted:no target display mode tho which is a bit of a bummer i'd probably buy an imac if they brought this back
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The Management posted:fusion drive ftw fusion drives are mega win
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Last Chance posted:fusion drives are mega win lol no. they are a scam. full ssd or bust
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akadajet posted:full ssd and bust ftfy
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akadajet posted:lol no. they are a scam. full ssd or bust nope.
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Endless Mike posted:i'd probably buy an imac if they brought this back I think they got rid of it because DisplayPort or w/e doesn't support 5K @ 60hz yet or something like that. once the interconnect speeds catch up it'll hopefully come back.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:a few years back someone at the office actually succeeded in making a fully-connected hadoop cluster with 7 trash cans and 21 thunderbolt cables to see how well metal tasks would work in hadoop heheheee "power"
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akadajet posted:lol no. they are a scam. full ssd or bust wrong. fusion is the best of both worlds.
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The Management posted:wrong. fusion is the best of both worlds. 
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you can't even tell the diff if you're using an ssd or a fusion drive with normal use. i'd bet on any double blind test
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the lowest tier 2017 imac's fusion drive only has 32 GB of flash lmao
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:the lowest tier 2017 imac's fusion drive only has 32 GB of flash lmao i do think this was a dumb move tho. it reeks of penny pinching. the older 128gb fusion drives are better, but you still really can't tell.
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ah yes the classic never-ending battle between "The people who use something and know" and "The but-the-spec-sheet-says contrarians"
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