Well, as machines, they still are. Pity that Microsoft isn’t supporting their software much anymore; they clearly couldn’t care less about their Mac ports, and haven’t for years. In many ways, the equivalent built-in Mac software does the job better.
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was that like this game?
FFMpeg has the ability to encode in ProRes. Would that work out?
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I am 100% certain that they have crunched the numbers and decided that percentage of customers who actually care about any of that, (“What’s RAM?”), is vanishingly small. One may eloquently argue that this is “wrong”, but the fact is they have been enormously successful at removing extraneous features, and this is one where the people who f*ck it up may be large enough that they decided to eliminate the problem as much as possible.
A) it’s not only MS. Much of the soft I touched since last Monday is a hot mess.
B) after using some of the soft that came with the Mac, I reluctantly don’t pull another rant, but just insist I’m having serious doubts about that “better job” stance.
C) FFS, nobody in their right mind uses .rtf, and I even need a bloody custom script and a custom shortcut to create a .txt?! Fuck off, that’s a usability nightmare. Burn in hell, Jobs, if you did this. (Otherwise, I apologise and suggest you stay in the frozen purgatory until your contribution to everything that’s terrible in latest stage capitalism is duly considered and evaluated. Please already choose one of this doors. Behind every one, there’s something with a goat’s foot.)
You are so wrong there. If it weren’t for regulations every car company would weld the hood shut and then charge you an arm and a leg to change the air filter. Apple is the most benign of overlords compared to the auto industry!
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Thanks, I’ll check that out! From what I’ve read about other similar options, clever people looked at ProRes files and came up with an approximation of the actual codec. These tools usually get shut down quickly and, from what I read, you shouldn’t really hand them off to clients since they’re kind of not the “real” thing… I’ll check it out though!
Nope! I work in .txt format all day long. If you’re getting .rtf files in TextEdit or whatever you’re using, just go to Format > Make Plain Text. Ta da, plain vanilla text you can easily save as a .txt.
iirc, .rtf was a legacy of NextStep.
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what’s a computer?
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I work in an office with ~15 Macs … mostly Mac Pros with a few iMacs and MacBook Pros. About half of them have had to be wiped and reinstalled because of documented High Sierra issues. While I completely commiserate with Windows driver issues, Apple has buggy updates too, and seemingly with increasing frequency.
As others have said, the frustration with Apple’s “pro” products isn’t the price but lack of upgradability and outdated hardware. If you’re on a five year replacement schedule, you have to buy the Mac today that will still keep you productive in four and a half years. If you work in a Windows or Linux shop though, you have the freedom to choose the computer right for you today, and upgrade the bottlenecks as needed later. Neither five-year-old Mac Pros nor non-upgradable iMac Pros are making any of us excited about spending our annual equipment budget. And let’s not get started on the anti-user design choices requiring dongles, adapters, hunting behind the machine to plug in anything, and the cost of external raid enclosures since you can’t put them inside the computer.
I like OS X and Apple, but life in Macland isn’t all roses. There are still a few thorns.
Honestly, the only reason I’ve stuck with OSX is because Adobe Creative Suite doesn’t work well in Wine. I’d be so much happier if Adobe supported Linux.
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Dreamweaver. 
Please, do yourself a favour and start using WebStorm. Or PHPStorm, if you use PHP.
Er.
Sorry, I just had to say it as a fellow front end developer. Last time I touched Dreamweaver was in 2010, and I do not regret leaving it behind.
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It’s God’s Apple’s way of telling you that it’s time to quit gaming and take up genealogy…
But yeah, in a desktop at least some components should be replaceable.
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I must compliment you good person, that was extraordinarily cromulent!
In truth there really has been nothing compelling about CPUs in a long time. The i7 in this 2011 iMac is still doing just fine. Theres really nothing about this year’s i7 which compels me to upgrade…
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I don’t think so; I remember Battlefleet Orion as straight up multiplayer space fleet warfare. You and your opponent entered your fleet commands and then the computer resolved the round of combat, repeat until one fleet is a cloud of expanding debris.
It was very primitive and wouldn’t be considered fun by modern standards, because of the severe limitations of the technology at the time. But you could play it at home with a beer and a smoke instead of having to go to the University to play SPACWR or ADVENT.
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Two things to watch for: 6 cores
Fix for spectre/meltdown
The first is present in the latest crop of intel cpus, but Apple hasn’t updated its offerings
The second? Who knows?
As far as imacs go-- you’re missing out on the screen, really fast SSDs, and USB 3.0.
more to the point… @Israel_B is not facing anyone forcing obsolescence yet.
While there are those that upgrade (Mac of Win doesn’t matter) every time a new feature comes out - we can call them the “Oh Shiny!” people; the vast majority of “personal use computer” people tend not to upgrade/update until they are forced to do so. So when the software developer, or gaming company, or even the OS itself says “Hey, you’re hardware is no longer supported” then it is easy to sit and say everything is hunky dory.
When you start getting the…
“Only Mac computers with an Intel core 2 duo chipset or higher will be supported”
“Only Mac computers with metal based GPUs will be supported”
“Only 64 bit systems that can run DirectX 11 or higher will be supported”
etc etc etc
That is when things hit the cooling fans.
The lifespan of a successful hardware feature:
- What is this for?
- We should support this.
- Most people will have this feature, we’ll use algorithms that assume it’s use, but provide a workaround
- We’re having trouble with our legacy support code–deprecate the workaround?
—sometime in the distant future— - People still rely on this?
I assume you have a Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 bridge?
And for everyone here…yup…good job Apple.
