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Why do you think a new Mac Pro ISN’T coming?
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You need a loss leader when you have a very broad product line and you are trying to entice customers in to see all you have to offer. Apple has to have the largest revenue based on the fewest products bar none. They have no need for a loss leader.
Brand Recognition in this case is also bogus. They have 10s if not 100s of millions of customers for iProducts. They don’t need product recognition for 20k customers a year
IRR is interesting but again not for what amount to mouse nuts worth of revenue
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Mac OS.
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I loved M100! M100 and After Effects to be precise. 😉
If it doesn’t work out for ya’ll in the next few weeks, I’m quite happy with a PC tower on my left, and a MacBook Pro on my right. I don’t do any of my email, blogging, photos, or music on the PC. That’s for the Mac. Good for lightweight editing stuff too.
If there is any heavy lifting to do, (say, ray-traced 3D compositions in AE, or editing RED footage natively), you do need serious power. A system might include a solid state boot drive, a dozen or more CPUs, a GPU of 2GB or more, 32-64 GB RAM, multiple slots, etc.
When you’re editing or compositing, I don’t miss Mac OS too much. When you’re working in the Adobe apps, there is no difference in the UI at all. Oh, warning, the fonts in the menus are different!
Still, I’m all for it should Apple be releasing a new “tower” that rivals that HP machine Tim was talking about.
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True. Legend. I stopped using it in 1998 after they promised to have more than 1 video track for 2 years. Sure it’s easy to use when it has 1 video track!
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You should have waited until 1999 (maybe 2000).
Graphics tracks became video tracks, and at first it was something like 4 graphics tracks, then it went up to more if I remember correctly.
Still had the a/b video track though.
It had automatic duck to AE before automatic duck.
Real time alpha channels, that was pre-1999 (Animation codec no less).
Once M100 HD came out and there was the one really nice last M100 hardware box, it had real time chromakey, up/down/cross conversion with easy to use gui PAR conversions. A really great hardware deinterlacing system.
It had zillions of real time GUI audio effects and a pretty great bussing system that was getting more and more powerful with each point release.
It had a minimal click recapture to online. Sharing projects, or parts of projects was easy, it had a sweet binned nesting system.
It had Autodesk Cleaner.
Cleaner.
Terrible color correction. In app compositing was rough before Boris took over. Varicam support took forever, 24p support to a long while.
Never the less, it was quite an app/hardware for a g4 and early g5s.
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Are you a frowning clown or a smiling clown? I tend to frown.
I don’t really understand computer engineering, even though my cousin Steve–a fine computer engineer and scientist and programmer by all accounts–has tried his damnedest to explain to me over the last 20 years.
I gave up the Hegelian dialectic almost two decades ago, slave/master computing metaphors. It was around the time I was slogging through some modernist Irish novelist’s tome. Aw Chico, CA circa 1996. {nostalgia.pickwhip}
I try to just tap dance whenever possible.
What is that sound? Are you chanting, Gregorian style? Please do not miscontrue my science fiction as actuality.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “blinking diagnosable critical components” brilliant! I shall incorporate this into my world view immediately, using a C3PO voice and R2D2 whistle.
Rich, my friends call me Rich.
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I love “Game of Thrones.”
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Durn it Herb. Buy the i7 and a Tbolt array and use X. $7k.
Then buy Bill a beer.
Push a button, one button — all five cameras are magically (i mean, metadatally) sync’d. Cut the pic. The first session will be filled with expletives and fist poundings and hyperbole, by you. The second one will be done faster than that and so on until it’s all done faster than Legend. Session 3, in my prognostication will put you in a positive return on capital employed.
Need access to the Legend projects. Spend $10 on 7tox. DONE!
You don’t like it? There’ll be 25 recent grads who’ll buy it. Or maybe Bill will.
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[Richard Herd] “Are you a frowning clown or a smiling clown? I tend to frown.
I don’t really understand computer engineering, even though my cousin Steve–a fine computer engineer and scientist and programmer by all accounts–has tried his damnedest to explain to me over the last 20 years.
I gave up the Hegelian dialectic almost two decades ago, slave/master computing metaphors. It was around the time I was slogging through some modernist Irish novelist’s tome. Aw Chico, CA circa 1996. {nostalgia.pickwhip}
I try to just tap dance whenever possible.
What is that sound? Are you chanting, Gregorian style? Please do not miscontrue my science fiction as actuality.
“I am genuinely in awe of many of your recent posts, they remind me of Aindreas in his heyday before his rage became sated by the arrival of PR6. Another reason to keep coming back to this bustling corner of the interweb.
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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