Computer companies have been competing with each other to make the cheapest and nastiest computers possible and most computers these days are made for kids and girls.
It started with turning desktop computers into laptops. That gained some convenience but laptops are grossly-underpowered relative to desktop machines and they cost a lot more.
That initiative wasn't destructive enough so then they turned computers into mobile phones which have no significant compute power at all and are useless for any serious computer application. But, hey, they can take really lousy pictures you can put on Instagram. What a deal.
Apple was at the front of the line in making worthless mini-machines ... BUT ... that isn't all they do.
Yesterday Apple released the Mac Desktop Pro and it is a computer leviathan. (CNN: Apple's high-end Mac Pro goes on sale Thursday)
The new Desktop Pro is an odd-looking computer but it's immensely-powerful and has SIX Thunderbolt ports for wicked fast disk access (or any other Thunderbolt peripheral).
Yah, yah, looks like R2D2. Closed up it looks like an unusual kind of a vase. Also, it's tiny as it doesn't even stand half the height of the previous model
What I feel is pure lust. This is a machine that can definitely deliver the bacon but you will have to deliver quite a bit of your own as they start at $2999 US. The Windows fanboys get all excited over that and scream that Apple costs too much money. Of course it looks like a waste of money ... if your only applications are simple-minded things.
It's been most disappointing watching the fade of computing from high-power problem solving to focus almost entirely on mini-devices with lots of flashing lights to impress the children. To all appearance, people stopped using computers for sophisticated things. But, as Apple has shown, the big machines are not gone.
It started with turning desktop computers into laptops. That gained some convenience but laptops are grossly-underpowered relative to desktop machines and they cost a lot more.
That initiative wasn't destructive enough so then they turned computers into mobile phones which have no significant compute power at all and are useless for any serious computer application. But, hey, they can take really lousy pictures you can put on Instagram. What a deal.
Apple was at the front of the line in making worthless mini-machines ... BUT ... that isn't all they do.
Yesterday Apple released the Mac Desktop Pro and it is a computer leviathan. (CNN: Apple's high-end Mac Pro goes on sale Thursday)
The new Desktop Pro is an odd-looking computer but it's immensely-powerful and has SIX Thunderbolt ports for wicked fast disk access (or any other Thunderbolt peripheral).
Yah, yah, looks like R2D2. Closed up it looks like an unusual kind of a vase. Also, it's tiny as it doesn't even stand half the height of the previous model
What I feel is pure lust. This is a machine that can definitely deliver the bacon but you will have to deliver quite a bit of your own as they start at $2999 US. The Windows fanboys get all excited over that and scream that Apple costs too much money. Of course it looks like a waste of money ... if your only applications are simple-minded things.
It's been most disappointing watching the fade of computing from high-power problem solving to focus almost entirely on mini-devices with lots of flashing lights to impress the children. To all appearance, people stopped using computers for sophisticated things. But, as Apple has shown, the big machines are not gone.
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