Mr.D.

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Without QE/CI running OS X is a waste

Why thank you for taking the time to post your opinion about what is and is not a waste. I personally, have no use for either, and QuickTime videos do work, and nearly on par with that of the host system by the way - but I don't do video editing - I do music editing. And my music editing programs work just fine on the host and on the VM. This is a thread dedicated to showcasing the desktop on peoples machines, not discussing the merits of running OSX in a VM. If you wish to have that debate, I'd be more than happy to - in the appropriate thread.

Hard to believe you can get all of that crammed into the cube! I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like with the compressible adhesive strip - should clean up nicely!

I know know the biggest issue that I have had with this machine - its powering the original DeathStar's tractor beam!!

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I think apple still the best. anyway he is getting worse. from ios7 to Mac Pro.

 

he is no more the undisputed leader of the branches. because he is loosing the innovation(for now).for example:

 

apple team (as me) has recognised a good design on the competitor software and has taken over.

the new Macpro has x79 socket, two years old, i think they are late.

the new maverick I don't know, but mountain lion is not snow leopard, that is clear.

this new Mac Pro is a revisit.

 

anyway they are the best, the design is the best, the software is very good (for consumer), the hardware is good, not so powerful, but good.

 

I mean what do you want? a trash is offensive! you people are using hackintosh! you like mac! if you don't like this stuff use windows!!! or fedora!! c'mon! somebody mounts hacks on acer laptops! this is very offensive!

apple put on the same level design hardware and software... and these tree points are inseparable.

so because apple is strightly related to design he tries always to simplify removing unused stuff like pci! that i think is useless for the 99%.. and bacause apple is related to design since ever you can't analyze his choice. you don't have the knowledge.

We like OSX - if we were all dedicated fan-boys, we would only have Apple 'branded' products (in quotes because I could kinda brand my hackintosh with an Apple sticker - sorta). We also like choice. That is why people try to get 10.8.4 running on AMD chips and nVidia 690 GPUs and hybrid SSD/HDD storage - because we like choice and we like a good challenge!

I think we have every right to analyze his (assume you mean either Tim Cook, or an Italian translation issue from personal possessive noun to possessive pronoun) / Apple's decisions, as we are the consumers. For an oversimplified example I shall use the evil empire that is Starbucks. If I bought a tall half-skinny half-1 percent extra hot split quad shot (two shots decaf, two shots regular) latte with whip, and then suddenly Starbucks says "We just improved our menu and 1 percent is no longer an option, only skinny. Now it could be argued that this may even be in my best interest as skim has no fat whereas 1 percent does have some fat. The point is that they used to offer this option - I'm not sure how many people used it because I am not privy to Starbucks inventory control system, but it was an option. I now have a choice - I can continue to get my snobbish coffee from Starbucks, I can go to Dunkin' Donuts (Microsoft OS and Dell/HP/Bob's Pretty Good Computer Company in this analogy), or I can go to my local Aldi and get some beans and roast that up myself! (for those not following along, that is the hackintosh in this analogy) I can also tell my friends and neighbors that I don't like Starbucks anymore because of their change and then engage them in debate about said change. Ultimately, people will analyze this decision with their wallets. That is the most awesome part about capitalism. Don't get me started about the crappy parts....

And, as for me, I try to stay away from making statements like "____ is the best" because "best" is subjective. The best part of waking up, for me, is not Foldgers in my cup. however, claiming somethings is the best has its advantages for marketing - "This is the best MacPro to date" Anyone can say that, and even Apple can print it if they so choose - but what is "best"? For me best is power and flexibility in a decent looking box. For others, its having a shiny slab they can carry around in their pocket and occasionally ask the woman trapped inside the slab for directions to Starbucks (yes and iPhone reference). As they say - your millage may vary.

So what you're saying is pcie cards do not use any cables?

Tell me, how do you connect a device to your pcie card?

 

I, for one think this is the right direction to go, but not with proprietary (thunderbolt) technology.

Well, we all know Apple just loves their own cables and connectors, so no wonder.

You are correct - everything requires a cable of some sort - hell some require two! The difference here is that if I want to add more storage (SSD or HDD) those cables are inside the box, not on the outside. If I, for some crazy reason, want or need an optical drive, those cables are, again, on the inside of the box. It doesn't matter if I hook up my video cable to the DP/Thunderbolt or HDMI built in port or one on an add-on card - correct. It doesn't matter if I hook up my speakers to the built-in port or the add-on card. What does matter, which is what people are commenting about here, is the lack of any ability to put stuff into the machine that was an option before. A side effect of that is increased cables. Does that tell you how to connect a device to a PCIe card adequately enough?

Thunderbolt isn't any more proprietary than FireWire - I don't think that's the issue. Again, the issue is removing options. And its not like PCIe and SATA are outdated - Thunderbolt is built off of PCIe!

Something that has now been effectively lost, is an easy raid solution. Yeah, I can get an external RAID array for my Thunderbolt connector - but I cant RAID that funky little PCIe flash drive they got there. And please spare me the platitudes about the reliability - everything fails, its just a matter of time. Why offer ECC memory (memory that has built-in error correction) and not offer a way to provide similar protection for my non-volatile data storage? Perhaps some clever company will come up with an external RAID box that looks like a sandcrawler for the R2-D2 MacPro to get captured by.