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Lets wait…
…for another 6 months to be upset
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/11/david-pogue-new-imacs-and-mac-pros-coming-probably-in-2013/
“You never want to get to get a call from the editing room”
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…and then another 6 months, and then some more…and once it’s truly EOL, then Apple’s going to replace it something, so let’s wait some more.
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Seems like the obvious reference 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8mNjeuyV4
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Most of us have waited three years for a successor to FCS3. Meanwhile PC hardware and software has advanced considerably.
So why wait? Can’t see an obvious advantage in waiting.
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Michael put it very well when he said “Can’t see an obvious advantage in waiting.” We are not SUPPOSED to want or even like the new Mac Pro that Apple just released. We are SUPPOSED to get fed up and move on. By releasing something so totally inadequate, Apple is forcing us to see the advantages to owning FCX on a laptop or iMac. If you reverse engineer FCX it points to an iMac anyway. No USB 3, no Thunderbolt? Do you think the engineers simply forgot to put those in? If they were included, management instructed them to take it out. If we received the Mac Pro we are all pining for (the totally fibre optic motherboard) it would be too ridiculously expensive. Pound-for-pound (4.5 lb. versus a small tank) there is more profit in a MBP. Apple is allowing the Mac Pro to die without killing it. You can set up all the Facebook pages you want, but Tim Cook is first and foremost a bean counter. What do bean counters do? The kill off the stragglers to benefit the herd. Just like in the case of FC7 to FCX, we are being herded in a particular direction. Still can’t figure out Apple’s logic, but they do, indeed, have one. I just don’t agree with it.
Gordon Modin
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Indeed. The lion’s share of recording studios use Mac Pros. In The next 8 months, I’d bet a large majority (like 85% or more) that do upgrade will move to PC. As for editors, it’s hard to say. Final Cut was never cross platform.
All that excitement over Smoke got a cold bath today.
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[Gordon Modin] “Apple is forcing us to see the advantages to owning FCX on a laptop or iMac.”
According to David Pogue no new iMac until 2013 either.
Thunderbolt on MacPro is a challenge given it also carries the GPU which would mean building it in the board (like iMac or MBP) rather than a separate GPU card.
They could have moved to the new Xeon Sandy Bridge chips though and 6Gb SATA as a more reasonable short term upgrade.
They could have upgraded the iMac to Ivy Bridge and added USB3.
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[Craig Seeman] “According to David Pogue no new iMac until 2013 either.”
I think Pogue is full of shit. I’m assuming we’ll see an iMac/Mac Mini update before the end of summer.
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Well I will say this: It’s not time for an iMac update. Their usual timetable on that has been the fall, so I wasn’t expecting news on that front. iMac news will be thrown in with the New iPhone in September (or whenever).
Apple’s secrecy makes tons of sense when innovating, but products for professionals (of any stripe) aren’t innovative at all. In another forum I was reminded of Apple’s “no market research” policy, which I’m not sure I believe, but seems plausible given a pretty large blind spot when it comes to business. Practically everyone wants to work on a Mac. Likewise, those who can afford one buy one for home. The market is ripe for the taking, but Apple seems uninterested.
But hey, what can you expect when a company is taken over by an Auburn grad? 😉
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[Bobby Mosca] “Well I will say this: It’s not time for an iMac update. Their usual timetable on that has been the fall, so I wasn’t expecting news on that front. iMac news will be thrown in with the New iPhone in September (or whenever).”
This iMac has gone very long in the update cycle. The iMac hasn’t been update in well over a year and it’s usually update every 10 months or so and , at least according to the MacRumors buyer’s guide, it’s usually updated in Spring/Summer.
https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iMac
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You know there are other people out there that use the Mac Pro besides video editors. An example is the astronomy community. Many of the features that you want to see in the ‘new’ Mac Pro are not all that important to them.
Scott Sheriff
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Where were you on 6/21?
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