Speculating whether FCPX 10.1 be a paid update?

[Marcus Moore]

You’re right, Andy. Apple does tend to update machines and keep them at roughly the same cost- but like Craig says below regarding the rMPB, when you add in new technologies that become standard- the unit price goes up.

Let’s look at the existing MacPro on Apple’s store. The base price is $2,499.

BOOT DISK. As soon as you add an the 512GB SSD option, the price jumps to $3,099. I have no reason to believe that Apple will ship an MacPro with anything less a 512GB boot drive.

RAM. I also find it hard to believe they’ll ship this thing with anything less than 8GB RAM (and I’m being generous, configs might only start at 16GB). Total is now $3,174

GPU. The MacPro comes standard with dual GPUs (of varying performance). Change the GPU on the current MacPro to the dual Radeon HD 5770s, and we’re up to a total of $3,424.

So even in the current MP, a machine with similar specs is going to cost you near $3,500.

[Marcus Moore]

I wasn’t talking about configurability- I was only configuring the current MacPro with some of the base things we know the new MP will include, so perhaps get a better sense of base price.

We’re completely in the dark as to what the price of the shell of the old MP vs the new MP is, so I’m kind of setting that aside and just saying if we know the new machine will have SSD, minimum of 8GB of RAM and 2 GPUs, then what’s the base price?

Yes, you can config a current MP up to over 10K, and I don’t in any way doubt you’ll be able to do that with the new machine as well (not including the 4K displays… yikes!). But with iMacs so much more capable now than back in 2006-2008, I think the floor for the MacPro (on both price and performance) can probably be at least $1000 higher than it was.

As you say, we’ll see soon. Then one of us can rub the other guys face in it! (virtually speaking) 😉

[Michael Benton]

My guess:

1: they will be charging for the upgrade.
2: 10.09 will not be available for purchase any longer and will be updated for bug fixes or major issues if/as needed for awhile.
3: New purchasers will only be able to buy 10.1
4: It will always be called FCP X but . . .

5: They will do the upgrades just like they have done with OS X by using a naming convention to differentiate them.

They could be pretty creative using names like historical Oscar winning Editors, Movies, or Directors. Maybe something like names of historical video technologies like cameras or film stock or tools, etc.

How about historical movie theaters.

Ex. – FCP X Tivoli (10.1)

[Eric Silva]

If Final Cut Pro will come out a new version (FCP 11) then everyone would have to pay for the update ($299). But if it is Final Cut Pro X (10.1), should still be a free upgrade or just pay half price. Because, it would be a rip-off if Apple charge us $299 with the same FCPX not FCP 11.If Final Cut Pro coming out 11 version and the features of it, more likely and worth it $299, I’ll buy it.

[Steve Connor]

I’ll be happy to pay for a major feature upgrade, as I was with FCP Classic. Hopefully it will be released soon

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Jeff Kirkland]

That’s a bit like saying OSX 10.9 should be free because they didn’t call it OS 11. And $299 is already half the price of an FCP classic upgrade.

The initial purchase price is lower but with the trade-off that a next version release is a new purchase. Fair enough. My initial $299 investment in FCPX has paid for itself hundreds of times over and I’m fairly certain the same will happen with 10.1 whatever it costs.

I guess we’ll see soon enough if 10.1 has enough features to make it worthy of an upgrade fee.

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