I own one, and think the trash can has been a real failure in the market it serves. It's been out for two years now, and there has not been one new GPU developped for it by anyone. They were sold as upgradeable, but there is nothing to upgrade to. Meanwhile, the Open CL and Cuda graphic options in the PCI world have expanded by leaps and bounds.
Apple seems to like islands. With the exception their short-lived venture into into X-serve (a great product that Apple seems never to have understood) Apple has always seemed to be interested only in creating single systems that stand alone and let one person do a lot of different things. They don't seem to like the idea that people might want to work together, using a variety of software.
Apple also seems to be uncomfortable with the idea that you might want to use their products in ways they didn't have in mind when they designed them.They've now got a lovely set of machines that you can only add function to by hanging a bunch of stuff off them via USB and Thunderbolt, but for the high-end video and scientific communities (who used to be big users of Desktop Macs) it's hard to get beyond an advanced-amateur level of usability with these systems.
Before I bought the trash can, I looked hard at a windows machine, but couldn't face the prospect of moving to new windows versions of all my software. I'm increasingly sorry I didn't bite that bullet at the time. The trash can is absolutely fine for all the photography I do, but for video it has been ... let's just say, "problematic."
Dave? You sounds like if it was irreversible, as an old fox (I know you're Young and Athletic belly-free - not like Michael...)
Looking at the past with a tint of bitterness: "haaa...if I had knew at that time"...
It's not, I beleive, a sort of british mood of the lost empire ?!
I see this emotional conflict with all my Apple friends who want all to switch PC
But simply emotionaly can't and push further to a
tomorrow that never comes the inevitable issue.
The Cooter is a perfect example of this unrational obstination.
This is called: attachement and fetishism. Lol.
What you, Apple irreductible people, (or PC resistance)
need is a trip to Vancouver.
48 hours of training with Eckart Tolle to get rid off the attachement
Built by the ego that feels safe indentifying itself with a brand
Regarded as cool and artistical.
"it is not the changes themselves that produce suffering,
But the resistance to changes" buddha. (well, more or less
Accuratly traduced)
