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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At one time apple had better offerings than the PC world did

Source?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Photoshop mostly. Graphics people HAD to have a mac. Also Macintosh screens were better, or at least better than the average PC CRT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least some of their displays still are. The current 16” MacBook Pro has a 3456x2234 (what else uses 1.5:1 aspect ratio, so weird…) resolution, with HDR1000, and pre-calibrated profiles for a variety of film and graphic design color spaces. Just a monitor matching those specs is close in price to a base model 16”. Then professionally calibrating it if you’re not set up to do so yourself isn’t cheap either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's always been the way with Apple. If you fit into the 0.1% of users that can make use of their products, it's good value. If you don't, it's bad value and so locked down there's nothing you can do about it. Most people don't need what Apple is offering, yet buy it anyway. That's the part I don't get.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Source: my personal opinion, pre-OSX in the PowerPC days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

you mean back when it's only speciality was CAD and Music engineering, but no workflow, office or networking, yeah I remember