New Macbook Pros to be “thin” ?

[Chris Jacek]

[Andrew Richards] “Nice, what do you have?”

I got a Dell XPS 17. I went a little crazy tricking it out with a quad-core Sandy Bridge i7, 2-750TB drives (7200 RPM), Blu-Ray burner, GeForce 555M (3 GB). It’s pretty impressive what it can do with Premiere’s MPB. Too bad I’m still spending alot of time and energy dealing with learning the Windows 7 interface.

It seems pretty gigantic next to my 13″ MPB, but at about 9 pounds, I still consider it to be mobile. At least for my purposes.

Professor, Producer, Editor
and former Apple Employee

[Andrew Richards]

[Walter Soyka] “Of course, I agree! Isn’t that the point of this thread? That Apple is more interested in offering a thinner, lighter laptop with mass market appeal than a high-spec laptop suitable only for professionals who need the power?”

I took the point of the thread to be whether we could read into a thinner MBP as disinterest in the “pro” market. I maintain Apple has always pushed the thinnest, lightest MacBook Pro/PowerBook it could produce while keeping them competitively powerful, so they aren’t changing direction by doing more of that. Maybe there is a niche market they are not entering (remember netbooks?), but I wouldn’t see that as a market abandonment (your modular G3 PowerBook notwithstanding).

But we essentially agree, so why am I still posting?? 😛

Best,
Andy

[Rafael Amador]

At the moment, the last MBP can’t charge batteries if the processors are working hard:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/200/893579#893579
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Paul Escamilla]

I was about to buy a new Mac Mini on Moday. Went to the Apple site and was about to purchase when i discovered that the new mac Minis do not have an optical drive. Deal-breaker.

So i went on ebay and found a used Mini for $237 that HAS an optical drive. Just received it in the mail.

What is Apple thinking?

[Andrew Richards]

The same thing they thought about floppy drives when they introduced the iMac.

Best,
Andy

[Paul Escamilla]

but when they got rid of the floppy drive, they added an optical drive. in this case, they took the optical drive away but didn’t add a new way of getting data into my computer from removeable media.

[Paul Escamilla]

I’m just a little confused by all of this. For example, today I have to produce a DVD for a board of directors meeting of a gigantic corporation. Should I just tell them that Apple decided DVD’s are dead?

[Mitch Ives]

[Chris Kenny] “Consumers don’t actually buy $300 software “

I wish people would stop saying this. Consumers but $500 iPhones… $900 iPads. Lots of consumers buy Photoshop, which costs more. We really need to stop saying this, as it’s a really lame statement that has no basis in fact…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com

[Mark Bein]

I cut with fcp on a macbook 5 years ago.
The new macbook air is faster.
The new quadcore macbook pros are faster than a mac pro from 2008.
All can connect to 27 inch displays, 1 Gigabyte/sec raid array, external gpu.
Unlike fcp7, fcpx does use the cores in a mac pro.

Since this all doesn’t bode well for Pro use –
Soccer Mum is going to be the next Scorsese…

[Michael Sacci]

No you use a system that has a DVD burner, or buy a DVD burner for the new mini. Does because it doesn’t have one when you bought it doesn’t mean one won’t work on it.