Andrew Kimery
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[Tim Wilson] “here’s a reason why there’s never been a commercial with a Mac and an iDevice in them at the same time. “
Haven’t you learned to never say never, Tim? ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTLFrFoEa4I
Apple’s ecosystem is going wireless/to the Cloud, so maybe they just don’t care as much if they wired connections get clunky as they get phased out?
For example, Apple’s Continuity feature(s) is billed as allowing your to “move seamlessly between your devices with Handoff, Universal Clipboard, iPhone Cellular Calls, SMS/MMS messaging, Instant Hotspot, and Auto Unlock.”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681
All of these features are Apple specific so you can’t do them with an iPhone and Windows combo. The iDevices certainly don’t require other Apple hardware to work, but there are some cherry-on-top features that only work in the Apple ecosystem.
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Or just share some of the ideas here. I’m curious to see what people think it would be useful for.
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Could be cool. Could be meh. No one knows until it gets out into the wild. As a wise man once said, [Bill Davis] “I’m the guy watching dozens of other guys trying super hard to sour everyone on a new laptop system – that none of them have actually ever seen, or touched, much less actually cut work on.” 😉
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I’ve never been a fan of editing with the trackpad on my MBP. I find having both hands on my laptop (one trying to use the keyboard and the other using the trackpad) to be uncomfortable cramped. Even when I’m using my G13 (under my left hand) I’ll still use a mouse as opposed the the MBP’s trackpad. If I was going to use a trackpad it would have to be the Magic Trakpad and placed to the right of the keyboard where a mouse would normally be.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “But TB3 represents a step forward, and it seems to really just be beginning.”
I agree, and maybe I’m not giving it enough credit. The total package, at first blush, is just a bit of a let down to me. In a year or two more USB-C devices will exist so the port thing will be less of an issue, but I’m looking for something that can hit the ground running for my workflows today.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Obviously, they don’t have little children.”
lol. Couldn’t agree more.
[Jeremy Garchow] “But isn’t that the proof right there? The new solutions are ‘inelegant’ because they don’t have an automatic connection to older technology, including Apple tech. So in order of them to be ‘connectually’ elegant (and still feel new), they need to have everything that your old computer has, plus anything new.”
It’s certainly a tricky line to balance, but it’s not like I’m mad at them for not having a FW800 port. Why not a mix of ports like on the previous models and the nMP? You said you never ran out of ThB 2 ports so with the increased bandwidth and flexibility of ThB 3 even just two sound like they would be a boon. In a year or two, once native USB-C devices became more common, Apple could go straight USB-C.
As a not-necessary-pro example, if you want to use your Lightening headphones with your iPhone 7 while charging it via the new MacBook Pro you need three adapters to make it happen. You also can’t use the same headphones on the MBP and the iPhone 7 w/o an adapter. The mojo seems off, at least for this round.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Price aside for a second, the new laptops are expensive, what spec wasn’t hit besides what’s on paper? What are you upgrading from? As much as I think I’d like the Touch Bar, I am not upgrading my laptop at this point. I have a 2013 rMBP, and it still does really well for what I need it to do. I edit everything I want on my laptop besides RAW. Do you need to do RAW on a laptop, hence the internal specs disappointment?”
I’m coming from a 2011 MBP and the RAM capped at 16gig is probably my biggest single gripe on the new machines. I’ve had 16gig of RAM in my MBP for years and when running multiple apps I chew through it pretty fast. I wish Apple would have kept the thickness and battery the same size so they could’ve used better GPUs, CPUs and more RAM.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Because if you didn’t deliver multichannel outputs, or go to audio post, there was really no use for them? Now, even if you don’t have a use for multichannel output, or send out to mix, there’s a use for Roles.
“I was going to say something similar. As someone who keeps watching X but hasn’t used it yet, the addition of Lanes, as well as color coding, solves a visual organization shortcoming compared to other NLEs. It also provides an immediate, useful benefit to using roles.
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[Tony West] “Folks who liked tracks were not really arguing about roles that much. They wanted to be able to look at their timeline and see what was what at a glance when it came to their audio.
Some said color coded roles would help. (they did that and then some)”
I was certainly in the camp asking for better visual organization in X so seeing those additions in 10.3 is nice. In the grand scheme of things though I still think that, among the three A’s, X is most likely to get dropped out of the blue, Avid is the most likely to go bankrupt/get bought out, and PPro is the most likely to keep kickin’ around.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I have two Thunderbolt 2 ports on my laptop now, as long as everything has a pass through, I am not short ports. “
And I think that’s the key thing. As long as everything has pass through you are fine, but not everything is going to have pass though. This will impact some people more than others.
As I said previous, my beef really isn’t with USB-C or just the four ports (would three ports on each side really be so detrimental?). It’s with the total package; the ports, the price, and the internal specs. I think the price cuts on the dongles and the LG monitors is a mea culpa from Apple. Give me a lower price, more ports or better internal specs and I would have pre-ordered day one.
[Jeremy Garchow] “The ironic thing about this laptop is that it seems there’s constant pressure and expectation on Apple to create new things and innovate, yet there’s also a sense that they can’t change a thing and most things should remain the same.”
Yes and no. Many people like Apple products because ‘they just work’ and Apple typically presents a more elegant solution than other companies which means Apple can get away with not being first to market. The last two big product releases (iPhone 7) and the new MBPs don’t present elegant solutions (at least not with products that exist today). The staleness of so many of Apple’s products doesn’t help matters either.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Sure, on the surface, it seems like Apple is cheating customers, but in practice, having an extendable cable that can turn in to nearly every single connection or port you could want is not a bad thing”
I agree, but unfortunately Apple only gave us 4 ports (and if you get the 13″ model only 2 of the ports are full speed). On the previous gen model you had 4 ports for I/O, a power port, an SD card slot, and audio in. Plug in a monitor, external storage and power (which you’ll want since you are running a second monitor and external storage) and you have 1 USB-C port free. This thing should come with 6 USB-C ports, not 4.
It’s not the dropping of legacy ports that bugs me, it’s the reduction of functionality in conjunction with the dropping of legacy ports (and the 16gig RAM limit, and the older CPU, and the lower-end AMD GPU and the removal of the optical audio out…) that bugs me. For a flagship machine that comes with a price hike it’s pretty a ‘meh’ package, IMO.
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Just saw that Apple has applied some hefty price cuts to the all the USB-C dongles they sell as well as the 4k and 5k LG monitors they announced along side the new MBP. -
[Michael Hancock] “For color I have the Avid Artist Color and Avid Transport, which I’ve mapped a handful of macros to. I’m working my way into doing more and more color work so eventually I’ll have every button on the transport mapped. “
Yeah, there is an element of fun in experimenting and re-thinking your setup. The keyboard layouts we use today were designed in the mid-1800’s for typing. They certainly aren’t the best HID for editing, but they are everywhere and everyone knows how to use them so here we are.
I’ve always changed my keyboard settings, but there were always keys at left as default because… why not? But when you start with a totally blank slate then it really makes you look hard at your choices. As I said in my previous post, it took me a couple of weeks to really dial in a setup I like with my G13, but the muscle memory took a big longer change. For example, on a keyboard my left pinky hits “shift”. On my G13 it hits “delete”. So there were a lot of times I wanted to use shift as a modifier and my muscle memory said, “Okay pinky, do your job” and I’d delete something by accident. It was frustrating at first but then just became comical (and finally I developed muscle memory for the G13). When I get a chance I’ll post a pic of my G13 layout.
A bonus side effect I didn’t mention in my first post is that the G13 is always a conversation starter wherever I work and seems to impress producers.