Marc Wielage wrote:Ehhhhh... the Mac Pros for the last 3 years have been spectacular. Just not cheap. And the current Mac Studios are a good mid-priced choice. (I speak as a user who was hit by the shrapnel of the old Trashcan Mac on a regular basis.)
We were on that same battlefield. The hardware problems were one thing, and something we could get past. Years of experience with bleeding edge tech teaches patience. What we cannot accept is how Apple dealt with us, and this after many years of helping them sell a lot of Macs. The attention they once gave pros is gone. If you are at a big studio things might be different.
I don't care what brand of hammer I use to put in a nail, and I dont care about Mac or PC. I just want to do my job.
The timing of this conversation is interesting; our Apple issue was their bad GPUs and heat issues. We fought with them for months about it, through every channel; it was exhausting and cost us a fortune in lost time. They really burned us, and did not care; even though they eventually admitted it and replaced our machines, they did not apologize or try to earn our business back.
Last week, we had a minor GPU issue with our PC. Puget had a replacement card sent right out, we swapped it and kept working. No lost time, no lost money, no waiting in line with iPhone users.
The new Macs might be great, but there is more to it than specs.