Glad I didn't buy an Apple Mac Pro, because

[2MuchMark]

Glad I didn't buy an Apple Mac Pro, because ... this amazing piece of sexy started shipping today: Apple - iMac with Retina 5K*display

[NaughtyRob]

From $2,499 eek.
I'd love to have one but not for that much.

[Zuzana Designs]

It's beautiful!

[arock10]

Sigh, the selling point of a computer isn't supposed to be its sex appeal

[Choopa Phil]

Beautiful machine!

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by NaughtyRob

From $2,499 eek.
I'd love to have one but not for that much.

$4400 decked out.

[edgeprod]

At least it's way cheaper than the Mac Pro. First generation that I am seriously considering NOT buying the Mac Pro desktop.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by **********

Glad I didn't buy an Apple Mac Pro, because ... this amazing piece of sexy started shipping today: Apple - iMac with Retina 5KÂhadisplay

Mark you're getting the apple hand job....you realize that correct? or are you so far gone you can't tell shit from beans anymore???

a 27 inch monitor at 5120‑by‑2880 is completely UNFUCKINGREADABLE and I know that how?

because .... I'm using a 30 inch monitor at 2560x1600 and the fonts look like FUCKING ANTS...have fun with an almost double rez and a smaller monitor

[Juicy D. Links]

does it come with a turtleneck?

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by candyflip

$4400 decked out.

yup for 3k you get the same as the pc I bought 3 years ago...just with out the unusable monitor, but I did get 2 nvida cards, Bluetooth, dvd/blue ray burner, wifi, card readers all built in and my ssd c drive is only 120GB but I only keep the OS on c drive... WTF is a 1TB c drive for?

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by edgeprod

At least it's way cheaper than the Mac Pro. First generation that I am seriously considering NOT buying the Mac Pro desktop.

Me too. I've been thinking about it for a while because I want something super-fast... but the Mac Pro's 4K monitor is an extra $1000 I think.

The New iMac may not be as fast as the Mac Pro, but its much cheaper, has the highest res monitor I've ever seen, and comes in a super sexy design which I am already used to (I have 2 iMac 27's on my desk).

Yum..

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

Mark you're getting the apple hand job....you realize that correct? or are you so far gone you can't tell shit from beans anymore???

a 27 inch monitor at 5120‑by‑2880 is completely UNFUCKINGREADABLE and I know that how?

because .... I'm using a 30 inch monitor at 2560x1600 and the fonts look like FUCKING ANTS...have fun with an almost double rez and a smaller monitor

Grape, the font size is adjustable. If you're on a high res monitor and the font size is too small, it's an easy adjustment to get it to look the way you want.

[Young]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

yup for 3k you get the same as the pc I bought 3 years ago...just with out the unusable monitor, but I did get 2 nvida cards, Bluetooth, dvd/blue ray burner, wifi, card readers all built in and my ssd c drive is only 120GB but I only keep the OS on c drive... WTF is a 1TB c drive for?

2007 487HP Ferrari vs 2015 700HP Hellcat

I know which one I'm picking.

The Ferrari. You, the Hellcat, I'm sure.

Quality over quantity for me. Can't even count the amount of HP, Dell, Sony laptop and PC's I've blown through. Shit quality.

Software (Windows) not optimized to work with the hardware....so in a few years you have a laggy POS. I ran a 1200 user Exchange/Active Directory environment for 6 years. So I think I know my shit.

Even custom built can't match the tight hardware/software integration that Apple provides.

To each his own. But I usually find that hte people who are anti-Mac have never used one for more than a week.

I'm happily typing this from my brand new Macbook Pro Retina 15". My 10 year old 15 inch Macbook Pro is still to this day being used flawlessly by my niece and my sister has my 2008 Macbook Pro Unibody. Still working flawlessly. How many PC/Windows based shitty laptops can you say that about?

[suesheboy]

Originally Posted by Young

My 10 year old 15 inch Macbook Pro is still to this day being used flawlessly by my niece and my sister has my 2008 Macbook Pro Unibody. Still working flawlessly. How many PC/Windows based shitty laptops can you say that about?

I have a 2005 Sony Viao Laptop running 24/7 in one office that controls security equipment and a weather station that tweets, Facebooks and updates sites non stop.

I did change the hard drive when it was 7 years old and windows crashed. To me if I was doing a clean reinstall why not replace the HD.

2 computers ago my hp tower ran my business worked for 8 years. I did upgrade the memory, HD and OS (from 95 to XP) and had to replace a fan.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by suesheboy

I have a 2005 Sony Viao Laptop running 24/7 in one office that controls security equipment and a weather station that tweets, Facebooks and updates sites non stop.

I did change the hard drive when it was 7 years old and windows crashed. To me if I was doing a clean reinstall why not replace the HD.

2 computers ago my hp tower ran my business worked for 8 years. I did upgrade the memory, HD and OS (from 95 to XP) and had to replace a fan.

I call bullshit. We all know that apple computers are magical and other computers breaks, lags, crashes.

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by Young

I'm happily typing this from my brand new Macbook Pro Retina 15". My 10 year old 15 inch Macbook Pro is still to this day being used flawlessly by my niece and my sister has my 2008 Macbook Pro Unibody. Still working flawlessly. How many PC/Windows based shitty laptops can you say that about?

i wrote some long elaborate post in some other thread before so i'll keep it short: my experience is completely the opposite

(happily typing this on my Samsung while my Macbook Pro (which had cost twice as much) collects dust because Apple wants $1000 to repair the display)

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by **********

Grape, the font size is adjustable. If you're on a high res monitor and the font size is too small, it's an easy adjustment to get it to look the way you want.

adjustable to a point, right now I view webpages at 225%

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Young

2007 487HP Ferrari vs 2015 700HP Hellcat

I know which one I'm picking.

The Ferrari. You, the Hellcat, I'm sure.

Quality over quantity for me. Can't even count the amount of HP, Dell, Sony laptop and PC's I've blown through. Shit quality.

Software (Windows) not optimized to work with the hardware....so in a few years you have a laggy POS. I ran a 1200 user Exchange/Active Directory environment for 6 years. So I think I know my shit.

Even custom built can't match the tight hardware/software integration that Apple provides.

To each his own. But I usually find that hte people who are anti-Mac have never used one for more than a week.

I'm happily typing this from my brand new Macbook Pro Retina 15". My 10 year old 15 inch Macbook Pro is still to this day being used flawlessly by my niece and my sister has my 2008 Macbook Pro Unibody. Still working flawlessly. How many PC/Windows based shitty laptops can you say that about?

cool story bro.... typing on the wintell machine right now with no issues. not anti-mac.... in 1994 when a guy was teaching me HTML, remember the old days of using a txt editor? ..I was learning on a mac with 75 chip of some sort... you macophiles will now what that is, ..... thing is I was going to upgrade t from 486 to Pentium...could decide between mac or wintell.... the guy had a crash and LOST all his data...made my decision...

my only issues with mac is, mac intentionally making the mac eco system NOT compatible with anything...here's a question for you: why do they have mac repair technicians....

[JD]

Originally Posted by candyflip

$4400 decked out.

daaaaaaammmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[dyna mo]

the only apple I buy is aapl stock, and that's due to peeps like the OP over-spending on apple shit = supporting huge profit margins.

cha-ching.

[DeanCapture]

Silly over-opinionated assholes arguing about which OS is the best

You guys are always good for a laugh

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

mac intentionally making the mac eco system NOT compatible with anything

Indeed, and this single fact alone is that would not justify buying such a thing and supporting such a backwards philosophy.

Originally Posted by dyna mo

the only apple I buy is aapl stock, and that's due to peeps like the OP over-spending on apple shit = supporting huge profit margins.

cha-ching.

Nailed it
I only respect apple company for utilizing the sheeple market for big bucks

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by DeanCapture

Silly over-opinionated assholes arguing about which OS is the best

You guys are always good for a laugh

not arguing at all ...makes no diff to me

[MPGdevil]

Originally Posted by DeanCapture

Silly over-opinionated assholes arguing about which OS is the best

You guys are always good for a laugh

Had it just been about the OS.. But there are people who actually believes Asian produced hardware inside a case with an Apple logo, is superior to Asian produced hardware in a case without.

[DeanCapture]

Originally Posted by MPGdevil

......But there are people who actually believes Asian produced hardware inside a case with an Apple logo, is superior to Asian produced hardware in a case without.

There are people who believe all kinds of silly shit. My point is - who gives a fuck what kind of computer somebody uses? Only a moron...that's who!

[d00t]

Originally Posted by candyflip

$4400 decked out.

looks awesome - must have to get one

[DWB]

If it can make you more money, go for it.

[AndrewX]

Why would you want to go over 4K in this day and age? Your eyes won't see the difference on a 27" anyway and there are more important factors in producing realistic (motion) pictures and graphics than the '5K' sales pitch they are giving you.

Buy 3 screens for that money, a decent graphics card and feel like a boss.

[anexsia]

Originally Posted by Young

2007 487HP Ferrari vs 2015 700HP Hellcat

I know which one I'm picking.

The Ferrari. You, the Hellcat, I'm sure.

Quality over quantity for me. Can't even count the amount of HP, Dell, Sony laptop and PC's I've blown through. Shit quality.

Software (Windows) not optimized to work with the hardware....so in a few years you have a laggy POS. I ran a 1200 user Exchange/Active Directory environment for 6 years. So I think I know my shit.

Even custom built can't match the tight hardware/software integration that Apple provides.

To each his own. But I usually find that hte people who are anti-Mac have never used one for more than a week.

I'm happily typing this from my brand new Macbook Pro Retina 15". My 10 year old 15 inch Macbook Pro is still to this day being used flawlessly by my niece and my sister has my 2008 Macbook Pro Unibody. Still working flawlessly. How many PC/Windows based shitty laptops can you say that about?

I've been building custom gaming rigs and servers for years and years, never once had trouble with anything. If you can't build a quality rig that lasts then you're doing something wrong.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by AndrewX

Why would you want to go over 4K in this day and age? Your eyes won't see the difference on a 27" anyway and there are more important factors in producing realistic (motion) pictures and graphics than the '5K' sales pitch they are giving you.

Buy 3 screens for that money, a decent graphics card and feel like a boss.

Good point. I am super productive using 2 monitors, and wonder about getting a 3rd. Anyone who works on desktops but is stuck on only 1 monitor would do much better expanding the desktop to 2 monitors instead of replacing an existing computer.

[PaperstreetWinston]

do you have any grey poupon?

[L-Pink]

Mac mac mac

[His Infernal Majesty]

I wish they would update their cinema display. I was hoping they did it after the iMac was made thinner even though there was a computer inside of it, and now there's a huge resolution bump and still no display upgrade. That sucks!

[edgeprod]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Indeed, and this single fact alone is that would not justify buying such a thing and supporting such a backwards philosophy.

The fact that you can't afford Apple products should be the only decided factor you need.

[nico-t]

[MiamiBoyz]

Originally Posted by Young

2007 487HP Ferrari vs 2015 700HP Hellcat

I know which one I'm picking.

The Ferrari. You, the Hellcat, I'm sure.

Quality over quantity for me. Can't even count the amount of HP, Dell, Sony laptop and PC's I've blown through. Shit quality.

Software (Windows) not optimized to work with the hardware....so in a few years you have a laggy POS. I ran a 1200 user Exchange/Active Directory environment for 6 years. So I think I know my shit.

Even custom built can't match the tight hardware/software integration that Apple provides.

To each his own. But I usually find that hte people who are anti-Mac have never used one for more than a week.

I'm happily typing this from my brand new Macbook Pro Retina 15". My 10 year old 15 inch Macbook Pro is still to this day being used flawlessly by my niece and my sister has my 2008 Macbook Pro Unibody. Still working flawlessly. How many PC/Windows based shitty laptops can you say that about?

I have to agree with you on this. The hardware is build to last (unlike the iPhone that people tend to upgrade every other year) the computers really last. My partner has a 15" Macbook Pro (late 2009 series) that I recently worked on when he got a new one. The computer had it's hard drive maxed out and 4 gigs of memory...ran like an old computer BUT never died on him (unlike the 4 laptops I went through)!

I took the old drive out and replaced it with a 250 ssd, doubled the memory to 8 gigs, and it's now running like a new computer (even with the old cpu). It will go for years! The only bummer is no retina display of course!

The integration of the OS with the hardware can not be bet and the latest free upgrade to Yosemite is really great. Runs fast and is visually amazing - highly recommended!

[Horatio Caine]

I have a friend who buys this shit and puts it on new credit cards. Unfucking believable. I can see this if he was some kind of game or computer graphics developer. This geek wannabe has been in school for 20 years doing some sort of anthropology-biblical research shit. Always broke and "I'll get your drink next" type of guy.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by edgeprod

The fact that you can't afford Apple products should be the only decided factor you need.

I do not remember giving you my bank account statement.
And if I did you made a strange conclusion from looking at the statement, but since you are not the brightest in the bunch...

[loverboy]

Very nice indeed.

[edgeprod]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

I do not remember giving you my bank account statement.

It's not a hard conclusion to draw, from your demonstrated (non)ability to grasp simple concepts.

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by edgeprod

It's not a hard conclusion to draw, from your demonstrated (non)ability to grasp simple concepts.

i don't understand this - the concept is that you buy Apple when you can afford it and stick to Windows PC when you are poor?

[edgeprod]

Originally Posted by MaDalton

i don't understand this - the concept is that you buy Apple when you can afford it and stick to Windows PC when you are poor?

The point I was making is he's like the guy driving a Honda saying the Ferrari brakes suck. I just like to poke fun at the guy on non-issues, because he always reacts.

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by edgeprod

The point I was making is he's like the guy driving a Honda saying the Ferrari brakes suck. I just like to poke fun at the guy on non-issues, because he always reacts.

ok, in that case i consider your post feeding the troll and will keep to myself what i think about what you said

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by edgeprod

It's not a hard conclusion to draw, from your demonstrated (non)ability to grasp simple concepts.

On the contrary I grasp simple concept of price/quality. If one computer cost 2K and another 3K and they both are equally good I buy the one for 2K.
Even if I have 1.000.000 in my bank account.
And laugh at those closed minded individuals who always drop "you can't afford apple" when somebody is claiming that apple is NOT better

[tony286]

Originally Posted by MiamiBoyz

I have to agree with you on this. The hardware is build to last (unlike the iPhone that people tend to upgrade every other year) the computers really last. My partner has a 15" Macbook Pro (late 2009 series) that I recently worked on when he got a new one. The computer had it's hard drive maxed out and 4 gigs of memory...ran like an old computer BUT never died on him (unlike the 4 laptops I went through)!

I took the old drive out and replaced it with a 250 ssd, doubled the memory to 8 gigs, and it's now running like a new computer (even with the old cpu). It will go for years! The only bummer is no retina display of course!

The integration of the OS with the hardware can not be bet and the latest free upgrade to Yosemite is really great. Runs fast and is visually amazing - highly recommended!

you have good points but those days are over. Now you are buying a very expensive laptop where nothing is up gradable on purpose. That does effect its long term viability.

[pimpmaster9000]

next year they will come out with the 6K display that even creatures with super-human eye sight will not be able to see the pixel of, and they will call it "hawk eye display" and they will put in a 2 year old intel and some other horribly over priced components and the crapple fan boys will be moist around the asshole all over again, standing in line to buy shit that the PC had like 2 years ago....

"retina display"

[edgeprod]

Originally Posted by MaDalton

ok, in that case i consider your post feeding the troll and will keep to myself what i think about what you said

Haha, exactly. Watch, there's more.

Originally Posted by mineistaken

On the contrary I grasp simple concept of price/quality. If one computer cost 2K and another 3K and they both are equally good I buy the one for 2K.
Even if I have 1.000.000 in my bank account.
And laugh at those closed minded individuals who always drop "you can't afford apple" when somebody is claiming that apple is NOT better

What you fail to grasp is that people who HAVE Apple products chuckle when you try to make the case that most Windows-based PCs come close to the build quality of a Mac. There's a vast gap between the two. Sure, LV products are expensive -- but you know what? They're also well made, and last a long time. If you want to go with a Wal-Mart knock-off because it's cheaper, that's your prerogative, but to say "LV is too expensive because X, Y, and Z," it just demonstrates that cost is your deciding factor, not the other things you're complaining about. Those who can afford it, will ... and it's not really any of your business that they "waste" the money, in your eyes, because you A) can't, and B) won't.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by edgeprod

Haha, exactly. Watch, there's more.




What you fail to grasp is that people who HAVE Apple products chuckle when you try to make the case that most Windows-based PCs come close to the build quality of a Mac. There's a vast gap between the two. Sure, LV products are expensive -- but you know what? They're also well made, and last a long time. If you want to go with a Wal-Mart knock-off because it's cheaper, that's your prerogative, but to say "LV is too expensive because X, Y, and Z," it just demonstrates that cost is your deciding factor, not the other things you're complaining about. Those who can afford it, will ... and it's not really any of your business that they "waste" the money, in your eyes, because you A) can't, and B) won't.

Ok so you still do not grasp the concept of price vs quality...

Cost is not deciding factor, price vs quality is.

To put it super simple for your brain:

1 kg of X potatoes cost $1
1 kg of potatoes Y cost $10

Y potatoes is 1% better.

Would you buy Y potatoes because they are better? Or would you evaluate price vs quality and decide that buying Y would be stupid?

I would go for X not because of the price (as you claim with "price is the deciding factor"), but because of price vs quality or price vs value or whatever you call it.

I can not put it simpler than that for you to understand.

This has nothing to do with apple, just explaining price vs value concept as you surprisingly do not grasp such a thing...

*****************

And how dare I complain about apple (like that thing about making users life more difficult with "closed system philosophy), it must not be true, I must be complaining because I can't afford. After all - apple products are magical and any complaint about them equals not being able to afford...
It is such a dumb thing to ASSUME that no words could describe. Narrow minded people think that way.

And same goes for your LV and Ferrari examples. You assume that people could not complain about certain things (that means you think they are God's creatures and 100% ideal) and if they do they do it because they "can't afford", lol.

ps: I would love to own a ferrari and CAN'T afford it. Does not correlate with your assumption that I should hate on it because I can't afford it, does it?
Also would hate to own LV and I CAN afford it. Also does not correlate with your narrow minded way of thinking, lol.

[edgeprod]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Would you buy Y potatoes because they are better?

Yes, especially if I used potatoes to generate my income, like I do on my Apple computers. Even 1% better is worth it, in that regard ... and it'd be silly to say otherwise.

[2MuchMark]

Here's a killer statement for this thread that should kill all future Apple threads too: If you don't like Apple products, don't buy them.

/thread.