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The Storm
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Why not just kill it? Run me over? Stick a fork in me?
“Because some people must be buying it, not sure who though.
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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[Steve Connor] “Because some people must be buying it, not sure who though.”
Me. I have to buy that f’n 2 year old overpriced POS because I’m still tied to Legacy for another year. I’m gonna get drunk tonite and plop my money down tomorrow.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
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[Steve Connor] ”
Because some people must be buying it, not sure who though.”Because, as the past days clearly showed, there are quite a few people who just want a Mac tower. So a lot will bite the bullet and buy the old fart rather than going PC. They are also very likely to have a modern Macbook, which will fly compared to the old tower design. So they’ll slowly but surely agree that towers are not necessary anymore, all can be done one a Laptop and often even faster, and after a while they’ll happily move on while having never known the performance of a modern tower system compared to a laptop. Clever move, Apple.
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“You also agree that you will not use these products for… the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.”
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It’s dead. They are going to let the market justify what they want to do already. From these actions the best you can assume is they have some larger clients who have begged them to keep making them for just a little bit longer so they are going to go from 20k – 30k units/yr to 5k -10k by years end no doubt.
If you really really need one or want one, get it now because you won’t see it on the web page a year from now if it even takes that long.
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Just got off the phone with Apple. Spoke to a Mac Pro sales rep and got the scoop…
The processors are updated to the current Intel Xeon processors but the website has not reflected the change yet. If you check the numbers stated, the Intel Xeon E5645, it is still the one from Q1 2010. Also, they changed the RAM configuration. You now get more RAM standard.
These are the ONLY changes and they do not know if anything else will be changed at any time but these are definitely the only changes for today. There will NOT be Thunderbolt, USB 3, updated graphics, or any sort of case redesigns on this “refresh.”
They recommended checking back at the Apple website about every half hour to see if they update the Mac Pro pages with what will be the new spec.
Additionally, if you look close at the benchmarks, they do reflect May 2012 tests on pre production models.
Panasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
AJA IoXT
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
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[Tim Wilson] “Apple isn’t in business to sell 2 million of anything over 12 years.”
2 million at between $1,300 and $999 is still a chunk of change. Plus how much in hardware sales did this generate. The 800# gorilla in the room is what would have been the total (in dollars) that would have been generated by keeping FCS alive and releasing X.
Lets not forget goodwill sales of non-editing software and devices by happy users.
How much has apple gotten from me since the roll-out of X? $0.00
I wonder how many potential new apple users were dissuaded from jumping on the apple bandwagon by the bad PR of the X roll out.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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[Matthew Sonnenfeld] “Just got off the phone with Apple. Spoke to a Mac Pro sales rep and got the scoop…
The processors are updated to the current Intel Xeon processors but the website has not reflected the change yet.”
That’s interesting to hear, but they have gone in and stripped out all references to the old chips, but have not replaced them with the new. Plus, there is a new upgrade comparison tool that specifically lists the old chips. It’ll be interesting to see which is true.
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[Tim Wilson] “10 million FCPX downloads”
Ha!
[Tim Wilson] “I read a very reasonable conversation between some developers who’ve actually done it, about how many sales it takes to stay on top of the paid apps bestseller list.”
It helps immensely if you own the list and make the vaguest claims about what it represents.
Franz.
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Jeremy, I know the presentation mentioned Thunderbolt to Firewire adapters, but when I search the Apple Store, I can’t find them. Need one if I’m going to connect to my Firewire Canon video camera.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Rick Lang] “Jeremy, I know the presentation mentioned Thunderbolt to Firewire adapters, but when I search the Apple Store, I can’t find them. Need one if I’m going to connect to my Firewire Canon video camera.”
I haven’t looked, but they were mentioned in the keynote blog I was following.
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