Another AMD GPU Frustration

vagans

PrefoX said:

Have fun with Apple in the next year, they gonna make their own CPU and GPU, so it will be completly useless for DAZ and tons of other programs.

When Apple change their hardware ISA they include a compatibility layer, just like when they moved from PowerPC to x86 years ago. Programs will still work as normal, albeit slower than normal. All applications have to be changed to support ARM to take full advantage of their new hardware. There's a lot more complexity to the situation of course, but that's the jist of it.

Richard Haseltine

OK, this is turning into an OS war - please stop now.

nicstt

TesseractSpace said:

The thing I find frustrating about Macs is the group that uses them as an excuse for not being able to do the simplest things on a PC. I've lost track of how many times I've heard "I can't use windows, I'm a Mac person." when asked to drag and drop a file or start a browser.

Folks get fixated on the tool, thinking the tool, or the process(es) the tool allows, is the point, not the goal. It's always the goal, and that will determine the tools that can be be used, but should never be used as an excuse.

j cade

nicstt said:

TesseractSpace said:

The thing I find frustrating about Macs is the group that uses them as an excuse for not being able to do the simplest things on a PC. I've lost track of how many times I've heard "I can't use windows, I'm a Mac person." when asked to drag and drop a file or start a browser.

Folks get fixated on the tool, thinking the tool, or the process(es) the tool allows, is the point, not the goal. It's always the goal, and that will determine the tools that can be be used, but should never be used as an excuse.

"Thing I use is just so much easier and user friendly" oooooor you're used to the thing you use all the time. Every time I've tried to use a Mac product I've found them completely incomprehensible. But I think that probably has less to do with Macs being intrinsically worse and more to do with the fact that I haven't been using one since I was a toddler, as I have with Windows.

edit: okay it's also that the first time I tried to use a Mac you ejected the cdrom by dragging a desktop icon to the trash bin and that is, I think, pretty objectively terrible and I have never forgiven them.

nicstt

I moved to the PC from an Amiga in 95 because they went bankrupt; the PC, whilst inferior, was still with us. I did consider Macs but didn't like the lock-in mentality of them - and the MAC tax.

I started to reconsider after a couple of years and spent some time thinking about it, but when I started to seriously consider the move, Windows actually started to get better.

It's a long time now since I thought about changing.

However, I'm not against the idea; if Linux or Apple's version of UNIX ever get to the stage where what they can offer works for me, then I'll change. Personally, I can see Windows going to a Linux based kernel; makes sense imo if intergtration of smatphones and laptops/desktops becomes a thing - and it will.

James_H

I like my Mac as a general browsing machine. I bought this Mac Pro to do Daz, but have moved entirely to PC. However the one area where Mac beats the PC is the trackpad: it just works reliably. I don't think I'd use it in Daz, but I just love that it behaves itself. My Dell laptop has a reasonable trackpad, but I rely much more on the Logitech trackball for precision.

Dim Reaper

nicstt said:

I moved to the PC from an Amiga in 95 because they went bankrupt; the PC, whilst inferior, was still with us. I did consider Macs but didn't like the lock-in mentality of them - and the MAC tax.

I started to reconsider after a couple of years and spent some time thinking about it, but when I started to seriously consider the move, Windows actually started to get better.

It's a long time now since I thought about changing.

However, I'm not against the idea; if Linux or Apple's version of UNIX ever get to the stage where what they can offer works for me, then I'll change. Personally, I can see Windows going to a Linux based kernel; makes sense imo if intergtration of smatphones and laptops/desktops becomes a thing - and it will.

 

I was just thinking about my own move to pc when I saw your post - I did almost the exact same thing at around the same time.  For me though, I got my first pc (a blisteringly fast 66MHz 486-DX2) just so that I could play X-Wing, and then Tie-fighter.  I did intend to keep on using my Amiga for graphics work, but eventually I found pc alternatives and the Amiga went into storage.

The strange thing is, last year I found the Amiga when I was tidying the spare room and decided to give it a go.  I can't remember what the screen rosolution was (640x512 maybe?) but I can attest that it looks awful on a 42 inch LED screen. I wanted to see if I could dig up some old graphics work / animations but I couldn't remember how the interface worked, especially the mouse clicks.  I suppose that 25 years of pc use has wiped any understanding of Amiga workbench from my mind.

I do still miss the Amiga, and I think it is a shame that things went as they did with the Amiga - it was ahead of it's time in terms of graphics capability.  I still have at the back of my mind a project to find an old portable TV and set the Amiga up again, but it probably won't happen.