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What an amateur.
How about how Apple have abandoned their pro users?
There is literally no computer that can be used in a pro recording studio without significant workarounds and a lot of extra outlay for no real advantage.
Either you go native and have to deal with latency or you go for Protools HD and have to either buy an iMac and use Thunderbolt expansion chassis or a Mac Pro, a computer from 2013, at a vastly inflated price and STILL have to use a Thunderbolt expansion chassis.
The Mac Pro towers to 2013 were so much better.
You could load them up with PCI cards and hard drives and they worked like a proper workstation.
Now you need a trashcan Mac Pro/iMac 27" plus a Sonnet/Magma Thunderbolt chassis plus a bunch of external drives.
It is a fucking pain in the ass and noisier than my old Mac Pro from 2010.
I have the 27" iMac 5K. It works fine despite being i7 (rather than Xeon). But it uses RAM best suited to a laptop and the fans spin up when the computer is working hard which is irritating when I have a mic on in same room, like when I am tracking vocals.
They are pitching their new iMac Pro at pro users- they better sort out the thermal management better than the current 5K iMac if they want people to take that product seriously.
They say they are releasing a pro workstation computer- frankly it cannot come sooner enough.
Loads of professional users are abandoning them and going for PC workstations and running Pro Tools HDX.
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Frequency is often lower, as there is no GPU there is no quicksync.
The new Intel i9 platform is a mess with low number of PCIE lanes if using low core count processors (again no GPU as they are at their heart Xeons).
My hope is that Apple go AMD for the new pro machines (ok no quicksync) but 64 PCIE lanes no matter which version of threadripper.
Apple have both abandoned the compute illerate and the pro user.
You have to do things the Apple way.
The MacBook Pro is a bit of a mess to be honest. With adapters from hell if you want to add anything.
If you have the standard new MacBook you don't get thunderbolt so you can't use an older iMac as a display.
I imagine their profits are so high for iPhones, iPads etc that if they lost out their pro users it would barely dent their margins and the R&D required for these aspects are more bother than they are worth.
Their OS's have kind of kind of gone the way of bloatware as well, lots of bells and whistles, and wtf was going on with the new MBP with the emoji panel type thing?
at 5mins 11 secs what the hell is he doing? "how do I get this to play?" "is it playing?"
I'm no expert but I reckon you press the big play button that appears everytime you move the cursor over it.
You gotta pick your battles and weapons these days .... I don't see the need to only use Apple or never use Apple .... iPhone is still the best phone for working Muso's but a workstation PC is a better bet if your on hardware DSP cards in the studio and don't have an older Mac Pro
I'm still on a G4 with Protools MIx and a Dell Precision Workstation with ... both are over 10 years old but if it ain't broke why change it
That said i'm quite impressed with my new work laptop - just a basic Lenovo running windows 10, it's actually a nice experience!
I'm working with a colleague who's on Windows, I just do 'brew install xxx' but hours later he's still faffing with config and setting env vars
I'm a little concerned by the recent changes even at a consumer level though. The lack of headphone port on new iPhones is annoying, and losing MagSafe from the laptop seems a bit odd. Moving everything towards USB-C is good in the long run but shit right now.
I also don't like the omission of the SD card slot. I can understand the logic of pushing towards wireless, but SD cards are used for all sorted if things that *arent* wireless, so it's really just forcing you into yet another dongle.
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In my 2013 Focus, there's about 8 knobs and dials to control the heating and cooling. How do I handle this crazy technical heater.
I FUCKING LEARNED!!
I was sure you could record a facetime call, so I took 8 seconds and fucking googled it, and it's a piece of piss.