As you may have guessed from the title of this post, at least if you've seen the news from the WWDC, its topic isn't culinary.
I don't want anyone to feel pressured to disclose personal information that might place them at risk for their house being robbed either.
But, given that FontLab continues to support the Macintosh with its products, given that the Macintosh had been, traditionally, the go-to machine for people using the industry-standard Adobe graphic arts software, and so on... although when I saw the price tag and specs of the latest Mac Pro tower computer, I wondered who on Earth would be interested in purchasing such a thing - perhaps some of the people who would are right here in this forum.
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The #1 thing for me would be that having a 32" 6K display as my primary monitor would be truly lovely. (I would still want at least one extra screen on the side, but maybe one instead of two as I have now.)
But for any other reason, the latest MacBook would be a better choice for me. Plus: portability is a big bonus.
Overkill (buying way more than we need) is how we're milked... and made complicit.
Mine was nothing remotely like that.
My point was that a typical computer was relatively more expensive in 1990 than it is now. A typical desktop PC was around $1500 in 1990, or almost $3000 in 2019 dollars. A typical desktop PC (or even laptop) is much less than that now.
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I suspect most designers aren’t their target market. But, I will be curious to hear from those that will use it about their experience once it is available.
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The Mac Pro was, from the start, intended as a business machine: a fully tax-deductible expense for business buyers who have the need for its capabilities. As the not-so-proud owner of a trash can Mac Pro that is coming to the end of its tax-deductible lifespan (such equipment is depreciated fully over five years in the U.S.), I’ll soon be ready for a new one.
I thought I might be able to get away with a new iMac Pro, but it seems I won’t be able to, as my work in high-end image reproduction in CMYK offset printing requires a monitor that is fully color correctible. While there are some tools to make adjustments to iMac Pro screens, their P3 color space (and some other factors) makes it difficult to do so. It’s not necessarily a problem with P3, but rather that the current tools for making adjustments, both hardware and software, have not yet adjusted to it fully. An 85% solution is not good enough. Furthermore, one needs to be in synch with the monitors used by the printing companies, most of whom use Eizo monitors. So even without the need to have the competing power to work with hi-res video or 3-D rendering, it seems I will have no choice but to buy the cheese grater. If my only work was in type design, I would never need to consider it.
Such is the problem of being a minority within a minority.
Years ago someone calculated the cost of printer ink at around $10K a gallon.
You do realize you can connect an external monitor to an iMac Pro.
Inside, a priestly class of infallible overlords, a cultish following, hidden infighting, expensive and sophisticated armor that is of actual use to no one because, outside the gates, the enemy has the numbers.
Ultimately, the besieged started to ragequit the doomed thing, koste es was es wolle. Everybody has the Internet now and can see through the facade, except the willfully blind, of course.