[addicted]

Sounds like a great idea.

Let me go have a look at powerful up to date Mac desktops that I can purchase.

Oh.

---- Apologies for the snark. I think a lot of the backlash towards the new MBP is being caused by the uncertainty Apple has injected into its desktop line. Even if Apple wants to update their desktops, but for various reasons (e.g. Intel) cannot do so until next year, a simple statement saying that Apple will be updating the desktops soon would have quelled a lot of the concerns.

The "surprise" factor worked for Pros when Apple was updating its devices in a consistent and regular manner. Since they haven't been doing the same with their Pro Macs, they are being highly irresponsible by not giving their Pro users more insight into their future roadmaps.

[eropple]

> I think a lot of the backlash towards the new MBP is being caused by the uncertainty Apple has injected into its desktop line.

Agreed. The mediocre laptop offerings (nothing exists that surpasses my 2014 rMBP) and the complete jokestore that are the less-than-multiple-thousands desktop lines--which isn't to say that the Mac Pro isn't silly too, it's just so silly I can't imagine ever even considering it--mean that I'm probably moving off of OS X over the next two years.

It would be more cost-effective, at my full billable rate, to get back into the Hackintosh game and spend God-knows-how-long on that than to buy any Mac on the market right now. That's insane.

[josteink]

> Let me go have a look at powerful up to date Mac desktops that I can purchase.

You somehow seem mistaken about regular pcs running Linux being unable to run the Linux-based toolchains you use on a daily basis.

Buying a PC might just fix that. Go ahead. Give it a spin!

[pka]

Photoshop on Linux?