New FCPX next week?

[Tim Wilson]

MacRumors has a nice round-up, as speculative as anyone else’s I assume, but well argued that they think it’ll be new OS X (including iTunes, Siri on the desktop, etc), new iOS, new watchOS, and new tvOS.

I’d been wondering if there might be something Thunderbolty (Thunderbolt 3?), but this has apparently been ruled out by the readers of the tea leaves. (Those green leaves ARE tea, right?)

Take a look, lemme know what you think….

[Gerry Fraiberg]

Funny, I just looked at the calendar this morning and wondered when the next FCPX update would land. That’s before I read the 9to5 post.

[David Mathis]

I was thinking now that this is June if another update is around the corner. I don’t read leaves, palms or look into a crystal ball. I just lack the psychic power.

[Andrew Kimery]

Bummer if there is no new hardware mentioned. If it’s true I guess it will be Sept/Oct before we hear anything (if we hear anything).

[Bill Davis]

The GPU in a Display thing is really interesting.

What software in Apple’s stable is most directly driven by GPU performance?

IF Apple is doing something interesting with their GPU interface in coming hardware iterations, one of the Apple products that could be expected to potentially benefit from that would clearly be GPU loving software like FCP X.

Let me be clear. This is pure, uninformed speculation only. I haven’t a single clue about this topic other than as a user like everyone else.

But it’s sure fun to speculate!

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[Tim Wilson]

[Bill Davis] “But it’s sure fun to speculate!”

Quite so. 🙂

Did you look at the Macrumors article in my post above? They’re quite sure that there’s NO hardware, specifically refuting the monitor speculation. I like their track record for such predictions, but I wonder if Apple takes turns making these guys look like monkeys. LOL

[Walter Soyka]

[Bill Davis] “The GPU in a Display thing is really interesting. What software in Apple’s stable is most directly driven by GPU performance? IF Apple is doing something interesting with their GPU interface in coming hardware iterations, one of the Apple products that could be expected to potentially benefit from that would clearly be GPU loving software like FCP X.”

NVIDIA has a brand new $600 GPU that clocks in with 9 teraflops of computing power. AMD has a brand new $200 GPU that does 5.5 teraflops. (Compare this with the 2013 Mac Pro, which with 2 GPUs in its top configuration can muster 7 teraflops).

Wouldn’t it be really cool is if Apple could innovate some way to allow these GPUs to interface [link] with their professional computers, so GPU-loving software could take advantage of these advances in technology?

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[Bill Davis]

I remember back some years ago when I first heard about the thunderbolt roadmap that included the all optical “someday” Thunderbolt 3 vision.

It caused me to imagine such wide pipes that components like the CPU and GPU could conceivably sit in replaceable boxes exterior to “the computer” rather than soldered directly onto a PC Board.

I know nothing about the requirements of computer hardware design, but it’s very interesting to speculate about what type of “computers” we’ll be using to do our work in the future.

If you had told me when I bought my very expensive “cheese grater” Mac Pro – that in a very few years That system would be a bit of a relic and I’d be making tremendously more complex and vastly higher quality videos on my laptop – I’m not sure I’d have believed it. Yet here we are.

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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “If you had told me when I bought my very expensive “cheese grater” Mac Pro – that in a very few years That system would be a bit of a relic and I’d be making tremendously more complex and vastly higher quality videos on my laptop – I’m not sure I’d have believed it. Yet here we are.”

Cheese grater Mac Pro’s are not “relics”

[Andrew Kimery]

When I first heard the GPU-in-monitor rumor I was intrigued, but the more I thought about it the more it sounded like an overly complicated solution that doesn’t really solve the problem Apple created for itself. If this product ever comes to light it will probably be a monitor with an embedded mobile GPU (similar to the 5K iMac) which doesn’t solve Apple’s core problem of having underpowered and/or non-user replaceable GPUs in all of current products. If Apple adds a user replaceable, desktop GPU to the monitor that could be awesome but I don’t see it happening when they focus is almost exclusively on thinness and low power consumption.

[Bill Davis] “It caused me to imagine such wide pipes that components like the CPU and GPU could conceivably sit in replaceable boxes exterior to “the computer” rather than soldered directly onto a PC Board.
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My prediction when ThB dropped and the old MP started looking long in the tooth was that Apple would make a ‘super mac mini’ that had all expansion happening externally (including GPUs). I got the shape wrong (I didn’t see the tube form factor coming) but other than that I think I was pretty on target. What I also didn’t think would happen is that we’d be 5yrs down the ThB timeline and it still wouldn’t offer the same amount of bandwidth you can get from the 16x PCI slot that GPUs typically plug into. Or that the new MP would still be ‘new’ three years later and only offer v1 of ThB. This is why I usually don’t fare well in Vegas I guess…

[Bill Davis] “If you had told me when I bought my very expensive “cheese grater” Mac Pro – that in a very few years That system would be a bit of a relic and I’d be making tremendously more complex and vastly higher quality videos on my laptop – I’m not sure I’d have believed it. Yet here we are.”

Computing life in a nutshell. When the first Intel powered MacMini’s dropped they performed almost as well as the fastest G5 tower in CPU-centric tests. Years ago when I was used to replacing my computer every 2-3yrs if you had told me many people would be using 6 or 7 yr old towers for their daily work I’m quite sure I wouldn’t have believed it. Yet here we are. 😉