Slashdot resource hogs are not the customers. No "anyone" needs anything more than a $500 box amd display to code or surf or comment here. The customers will be Disney/Pixar, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, and the like, that will puchase $100K worth of this equipment at a time, and it will give them better performance and results for far less cost than what is currently available.
Apparently, the entire point of the design, release and price went so far over the heads of slashdot submitters, editors a
Slashdot resource hogs are not the customers. No "anyone" needs anything more than a $500 box amd display to code or surf or comment here.
/. used to be primarily composed of people that were resource hogs. Engineers, programmers, DBAs and gamers. People who would use huge amounts of compute resources.
However if you want to spin up a database lab, programming environment or gaming boxen you can easily do that with $2000 including a fucking nice monitor. Hell if you're planning on a regular replacement cycle, you can do it for $1500 easy.
You do have a point that all the browsing, insta-twit-book needs of Dopey Doris can be met by a $300 laptop... Which is ironic as they are Apple's main market now.
The customers will be Disney/Pixar, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, and the like, that will puchase $100K worth of this equipment at a time, and it will give them better performance and results for far less cost than what is currently available.
If anything, a $5000 monitor is going to drive them away from Apple even faster, as that is the direction the industry has taken.
This monitor is exclusively for the Apple fanboys who will pay anything just to get the latest Apple shiny. Apple hasn't cared about professional users for years now and has dedicated itself to the fashion victim crowd. Professional users turned their back on Apple. Hence the only people I see "working" on an Apple laptop are the sales drones. Those of us who do actual work realised we'd get a better machine from Dell for half the price (and that machine would have multiple USB ports, a headphone jack and RJ45).
If anything, a $5000 monitor is going to drive them away from Apple even faster, as that is the direction the industry has taken.
I'm guessing you haven't priced professional monitors before have you? 5K for the specs they showed is not going to drive industry away, it's going to have then knocking the doors down to buy them.
186,000 Miles per Second. It's not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW.
Why? (Score:2)
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Why does anyone even need this?
Color grading in movies.
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Slashdot resource hogs are not the customers. No "anyone" needs anything more than a $500 box amd display to code or surf or comment here. The customers will be Disney/Pixar, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, and the like, that will puchase $100K worth of this equipment at a time, and it will give them better performance and results for far less cost than what is currently available.
Apparently, the entire point of the design, release and price went so far over the heads of slashdot submitters, editors a
Re:Why? (Score:2)
Slashdot resource hogs are not the customers. No "anyone" needs anything more than a $500 box amd display to code or surf or comment here.
/. used to be primarily composed of people that were resource hogs. Engineers, programmers, DBAs and gamers. People who would use huge amounts of compute resources.
However if you want to spin up a database lab, programming environment or gaming boxen you can easily do that with $2000 including a fucking nice monitor. Hell if you're planning on a regular replacement cycle, you can do it for $1500 easy.
You do have a point that all the browsing, insta-twit-book needs of Dopey Doris can be met by a $300 laptop... Which is ironic as they are Apple's main market now.
The customers will be Disney/Pixar, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, and the like, that will puchase $100K worth of this equipment at a time, and it will give them better performance and results for far less cost than what is currently available.
If anything, a $5000 monitor is going to drive them away from Apple even faster, as that is the direction the industry has taken.
This monitor is exclusively for the Apple fanboys who will pay anything just to get the latest Apple shiny. Apple hasn't cared about professional users for years now and has dedicated itself to the fashion victim crowd. Professional users turned their back on Apple. Hence the only people I see "working" on an Apple laptop are the sales drones. Those of us who do actual work realised we'd get a better machine from Dell for half the price (and that machine would have multiple USB ports, a headphone jack and RJ45).
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If anything, a $5000 monitor is going to drive them away from Apple even faster, as that is the direction the industry has taken.
I'm guessing you haven't priced professional monitors before have you? 5K for the specs they showed is not going to drive industry away, it's going to have then knocking the doors down to buy them.