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New Mac Pro
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[Gary Huff] ” 24″ trumps 17″ every time”
Agreed. I didn’t mention my 24″ monitor that hooks into my laptop at home. I wouldn’t want to spend all my time looking at the laptop screen either.
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I agree with Steve about the FUN of the speculation and those who like it could give me the numbers of the lottery .
iMac 2.7 GHz Intel 4 Core i5
16 GB memoryMacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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[Steve Connor] “…it’s so much FUN to speculate even when you’re wrong some of the time.”
Are you kidding? It’s AWESOME. That’s why this forum is the most fun you can have on the net with your clothes on. Or with your clothes off but we don’t have to see pictures of you.
Tim Wilson
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Oh, and it’s been 1,000 days since iPod Classic has been updated. Apple cares not for consumers. “
They specifically don’t care for me since apparently I’m the last person alive who wants the ipod strictly for music and with an SSD. After waiting for a year for an Ipod classic update I had to pop for a new one just a week ago. This obviously means either an Ipod update or an EOL. Where have I heard that story before.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Craig Seeman] “At the very least we should get discounts on our annual COW membership dues. ;)”
You’re right.
It’s a free forum from now on!
Tim Wilson
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Creative COW Magazine
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[Gary Huff] “Did you buy your Mac to do editing/creative work on or to surf the web and tinker with?”
I bought it to do editing.
I knew the mac was better for that type of work. That’s why I bought it for that.
But there were still folks who felt that a pc was better for that also.
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hahahaha
yes, there is that : )
good one J.G.
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[Walter Soyka] “Who here will place an order immediately?”
If it meets the current definition of a workstation (64 G Ram, multiple 16 lane PCIe, CPU choices) I will buy one immediately.
On the other hand I’m still not convinced the refresh is happening. I was at the NYC Adobe road show yesterday. As part of the show HP had a rep showing off the Z1 and a new specially rigged out Z820 made for Red workflows and he was grinning from ear to there. He didn’t say anything specific but he hinted that he expected a lot of interest in these products after June 10th. To support that Tekserve, the largest Mac pro video dealer in NY, is the company building and supporting the HP / Red workstation. As far as I know this is the first non Mac computer ever sold at Tekserve. I spoke to Matt Cohen of Tekserve for a bit and he didn’t profess to have any inside knowledge about what’s coming up, but the fact that he’s looking to diversify says a lot. As an aside the HP/Red workstation was HOT!!!
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Tim’s right.
If there’s a new MacPro, it was certainly planned.
It’s like the FCPX debate. People say a second viewer wasn’t planned from the beginning, I’d say, the framework is already apparent, just have a look at the multicam viewer and multicam was support was announced shortly after the FCPX release.
It would be really hard to all if a sudden start sourcing motherboards, cooling systems, ram, and all the myriad of bits and bobs thy need to go into the reliable design of a machine, and then test it.
If there really is a new MacPro, then Apple is waiting for their major yearly event to announce the new machine, and if parts are readily available, maybe it will ship soon after announcement. Apple is fairly decent at announcing something then shipping soon after. HP announced the new Xeons a long time ago, gave a release date, then didn’t hit that initial date due to no fault of their own. There’s two different styles there.
I think Steve nailed it. The only thing that happened here is that Apple EOLd FCS3. It’s a major EOL for sure, but if that didn’t happen, this hardware lag would be business as usual at Apple, and there’d be much less fear even if Apple had announced a dot update of fcs3 at NAB 2011.
These things take time. You can’t just turn a crank and push out MacPros.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I think Steve nailed it. The only thing that happened here is that Apple EOLd FCS3. It’s a major EOL for sure, but if that didn’t happen, this hardware lag would be business as usual at Apple,”
I agree with this totally. The EOL of Legacy made made everything Apple did look ominous, and if there is a refresh then it obviously has been in the works for some time. However I haven’t heard any official announcements yet, and just cause your paranoid it doesn’t mean your wrong.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf
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