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Mac Pro Pricing
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[Daniel Frome] “unny…when I first bought my rMBP I was having thunderbolt connectivity issues with my Pegasus TB raid. I took the machine to the apple store and they just gave me a new rMBP. Didn’t even bother to fix.”
Exactly. And if you’ve had it for a while, and it’s all configured, how are you going to return it to the setup that you want/need? The App Store helps a bit in that regard since it’s super-easy to get all of your apps installed, but not everything’s on the app store.
Just make sure you have Time Machine backups I guess.
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Precisely. Over TB, restoring a TimeMachine backup is about an hour for the average HD. Then you’re back precisely where you were.
A failed bootcamping of my wife’s iMac could have ended horribly. But with Time Machine she never knew I did anything wrong (whew!).
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[Marcus Moore] “Work comes to me on client-specific drives, and that’s where it lives while I work on the job until I deliver it.”
Wow! You are brave. I NEVER work on a client’s drive. I treat their drives as if they are maser tapes, always copy to one of my RAIDs, and shelve their drives until I return them. Maybe I’m being overly paranoid, but I thought that’s how everyone else worked, too.
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The drive that comes to me is never the only version of the camera originals.
As long as I back up my project files and third party media, I know there’s redant backups of raw media should anything… untoward happen.
Again. I’ve educated and influenced my clients on what drives to buy. FW800 has been the standard for a while, but I’ve started to push TB drives where it makes sense.
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Sorry. That came off rudely. I didn’t mean to question your process or your professionalism. I think my abundance of caution just come from days of tape, times when RAID drives were very expensive, and portable drives were far too slow to work from. I’ll continue that way, but its probably an idiosyncrasy on my part.
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No offence taken.
I’m not so young not to remember all the things you mention. I actually started cutting on film, and my fair share of A/B tape as well, before getting onto an AVID in ’95.
My recollection is that when we finally moved over to FCP it was at the start of the DV revolution. And FW400 drives seemed to be equal to the task of cutting DV/HDV as long as you weren’t doing Multicam. And since FW800 was released, it been good for everything save uncompressed or DVCPro50. That is until these RAW formats started popping up.
Because I fly in and out of jobs, clients sent me the material, and when I send it back to them they take exclusive responsibility for archiving.
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