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Nothing New for us from Apple Today
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[Bret Williams] “Well, since Thunderbolt was and is the future, I’ve been waiting for them to ADD it to the towers so I could buy one.”
Thunderbolt is the future of I/O for space-constrained devices. PCIe is vastly more powerful though, and if a new Mac Pro totally eschews PCIe in favor of the much slower Thunderbolt for I/O, it will be bitterly disappointing.
[Bret Williams] “I’m not buying a MacPro without esata and thunderbolt. It’s not the processors, it’s the whole package.”
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Thunderbolt on a Mac Pro (hopefully not in place of PCIe slots), but I’d be shocked to see built-in eSATA. Apple’s had that available to build in for almost a decade and they never have.
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[Andrew Richards] “but I’d be shocked to see built-in eSATA. Apple’s had that available to build in for almost a decade and they never have.”
It’s not convenient enough as it requires separate power.
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[Darren Kelly] “Craig, ready to say Uncle?”
Nope. As Apple indicated, 2012 is going to be a big year for them. If it’s all simple iPhone and iPad updates it wouldn’t be much different than the last couple of years.
Apple is about ecosystems and their move into content distribution means an “awareness” of content creation as well.
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[Darren Kelly] “They are out of the Pro market.”
Not at all from what I’m seeing and hearing. “Pro” goes far beyond broadcast and feature film. Corporate, business, enterprise are “Pro” markets and there’s big growth there for Apple and many of those businesses produce lots of media, very little of it for broadcast.
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You stay with it Craig. You can’t buy a MacPro, and Intel has announced the new generation of chips available for April delivery, so In my opinion if Apple was still in the Pro computer game, they would have used this opportunity, where all the press were watching.
Yes, I know there is more to the pro market than broadcast and film.
Those video guys still need and use pro products.
Craig, it’s almost a year since FCPX. Even HDNet dropped FCP this week and went to Premiere.
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[Darren Kelly] “You stay with it Craig. You can’t buy a MacPro, and Intel has announced the new generation of chips available for April delivery, so In my opinion if Apple was still in the Pro computer game, they would have used this opportunity, where all the press were watching.
“I know you’re really keen to press your point, but as far as I’m aware Apple still sell Mac Pros and your opinion about the announcement, based on evidence from all recent Apple launches is wrong, they no longer cut across product lines on launches.
Steve Connor
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“2012 is going to be a big year for them”
Probably, profit-wise. But we know beyond a shadow of a doubt where that comes from.
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You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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[Joseph Owens] “Probably, profit-wise. But we know beyond a shadow of a doubt where that comes from.”
It’s all those displayport to DVI adapters they sell, right?
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