InLight-Tone
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Believe you me Charlie, NIN!, your posts about your current workflow, the Mac world and your subsequent work in Saw, Wayward etc., are my main influences towards the mac platform...Yes.
Believe you me Charlie, NIN!, your posts about your current workflow, the Mac world and your subsequent work in Saw, Wayward etc., are my main influences towards the mac platform...Yes.
Those of you who work on machines with soldered hard drives: what the hell do you do when your drive dies? Just buy a new computer?
It is pretty insane what AAPL has done in the 25 years that I've been a "hodl"-er.
Be patient and wait a couple of weeks. No one has one yet.Any one have any idea how the top spec CPU in this might compare to a 5.1 12 core 3.46?
Does installing your own RAM void the warranty? That's what I'd like to know. In that case, is there any point in buying Apple Care? I'd like to have AC in case the hard drive goes out, but not if they're going to say "Oh! You installed your OWN RAM? Tough luck. We aren't replacing your hard drive."I guess then...Apple Care is basically required, then?
Those of you who work on machines with soldered hard drives: what the hell do you do when your drive dies? Just buy a new computer?
No. A motherboard component may fail at some time, but there are computers more than 20 years old that still work. There are computers from today going to be working in 20 years from now, but no SSD will last as long as far as I know.As an SSD has no moving parts isn't it just as, or almost as, likely that a motherboard component (which are mostly soldered) will fail?
No. A motherboard component may fail at some time, but there are computers more than 20 years old that still work. There are computers from today going to be working in 20 years from now, but no SSD will last as long as far as I know.
Would you WANT to work on a 20 year old computer?!? Let's see, 20 years ago I was using a G3 - I'm not sure it would be good for anything but very slow web browsing...No. A motherboard component may fail at some time, but there are computers more than 20 years old that still work. There are computers from today going to be working in 20 years from now, but no SSD will last as long as far as I know.
Windows 10 doesn't crash either but we don't want to go down THAT road do we?!? My point is that Mac users are paying 4 times as much for the same hardware for the privilege to use MacOS and Logic? Are those worth it? I've used them and to me they are nothing special. I don't have money to burn like that especially on computers...
Shit like that is why I just cannot deal with Apple anymore. I love the OS so much, but what if my drive dies a day before a delivery? I guess I can have a bootable Thunderbolt drive ready to go and not experience much of a performance hit, but do they seriously expect me to just...run my computer like that full time from then on? Like, now my system drive is an external drive -- forever? Maybe a tech can do it, but do they expect people to pay to have their hard drive replaced? I guess then...Apple Care is basically required, then?
I'm holding my breath for 2019's Mac Pro, but if it has soldered on anything (and also probably has its base model priced at $6,000), then I'm 100% out the door for good.
That's absurd, they're using the same components. I could build 4 Windows machines to have backups for the same price...Hell yes, they are worth it. Win 10 DOES crash, been there, done that, got the t-shirt. My experience of course, but to me it`s worth it to have a machine that I can count on day after day, without worrying about whether or not it`s going to deliver for me. For that reason, I`m willing to shell out for another Mac when that day comes.
That's absurd, they're using the same components. I could build 4 Windows machines to have backups for the same price...
The bigger issue for Macs is usually will the applications I want (like the latest Kontakt that I need to run the newest library I just bought) still run on my old OS? ?
If a soldered-in hard drive failed, couldn't you still boot and work from the external Time Machine backup? I've never tried this with newer Macs, but back in the old days, I remember having internal drive crashes and booting from external drives. Or even the CD-ROM drive. (Or in the really old days, the cassette drive. Or in the really, really old days, the vinyl LP drive.)
Does installing your own RAM void the warranty? That's what I'd like to know. In that case, is there any point in buying Apple Care? I'd like to have AC in case the hard drive goes out, but not if they're going to say "Oh! You installed your OWN RAM? Tough luck. We aren't replacing your hard drive."