Andrew Kimery
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[Darren Roark] “If I got significantly more performance out of mine I would buy two.”
Out of curiosity, what kind of price/performance ratio are you thinking about? For example, if the replacement cost for a pair of new GPUS was, say, $4000 what kind of performance increase for GPU-centric tasks would you be okay with? 20%? 50%?
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[Charlie Austin] “I believe this is appropriate here… 🙂 internetofs*it on twitter”
LOL, perfect!
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[Oliver Peters] “Then the following year after some AI-learning: “Hey dummy – clean it up yourself!””
Me: “See how you like life without your battery charger…”
Siri Roomba: “You wouldn’t dare!”
Me: “Just watch me.”
Siri-Washer and Dryer: “If you want clean undies you better put Siri-Roomba’s charger back on the floor”
Me: “What?”
Siri-Fridge: “It would be a shame if all this food went bad…”
Me: “Stay out of this Siri-Fridge. I’m so gonna kick you all off the WiFi if you keep this up.”
iPhone: “I’ll just make a local WiFi hot spot.”
Me: “Son of a…!”And the ‘connected house’ revolt begins…
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[Oliver Peters] “Austin is where the nMP is built. The Orlando office is rumored to be a GPU development branch. It’s possible that the next iteration of iMacs and/or nMPs would have Apple-designed GPUs and maybe even CPUs.”
Hopefully that’s just more people to make Apple’s custom boards using AMD or Nvidia chips (maybe do a better job to keep them from melting? 😉 ) as opposed to Apple designing it’s own GPU from the ground up.
[Darren Roark] “Ultimately my hope is they stick with this slot for the next round and sell updated GPUs as an upgrade, or at least make cards specifically for the 2013. The SSD, RAM, and CPU can be swapped out, they just don’t sell the GPUs yet. (big problem)”
I don’t think people will be willing to pay what it would cost to buy a customer made graphics card for a such a low-volume machine like the nMP. I mean, Mac versions of off the shelf video cards were always much more expensive than their PC counterparts so for a custom design, like the nMP requires, I’d just guess and say the retail price would be 2-3x higher than the comparable, off-the-shelf counterpart.
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[Charlie Austin] “Wait! Do you know something specific about that, or are you just spreading rumors?!? Because i want one! :-)”
Me: “Hey, Siri-Roomba, I just spilled a bunch of Cheerios in the kitchen.”
Siri Roomba: “Thanks, I’ll get right on that!” -
When I first heard the GPU-in-monitor rumor I was intrigued, but the more I thought about it the more it sounded like an overly complicated solution that doesn’t really solve the problem Apple created for itself. If this product ever comes to light it will probably be a monitor with an embedded mobile GPU (similar to the 5K iMac) which doesn’t solve Apple’s core problem of having underpowered and/or non-user replaceable GPUs in all of current products. If Apple adds a user replaceable, desktop GPU to the monitor that could be awesome but I don’t see it happening when they focus is almost exclusively on thinness and low power consumption.
[Bill Davis] “It caused me to imagine such wide pipes that components like the CPU and GPU could conceivably sit in replaceable boxes exterior to “the computer” rather than soldered directly onto a PC Board.
“My prediction when ThB dropped and the old MP started looking long in the tooth was that Apple would make a ‘super mac mini’ that had all expansion happening externally (including GPUs). I got the shape wrong (I didn’t see the tube form factor coming) but other than that I think I was pretty on target. What I also didn’t think would happen is that we’d be 5yrs down the ThB timeline and it still wouldn’t offer the same amount of bandwidth you can get from the 16x PCI slot that GPUs typically plug into. Or that the new MP would still be ‘new’ three years later and only offer v1 of ThB. This is why I usually don’t fare well in Vegas I guess…
[Bill Davis] “If you had told me when I bought my very expensive “cheese grater” Mac Pro – that in a very few years That system would be a bit of a relic and I’d be making tremendously more complex and vastly higher quality videos on my laptop – I’m not sure I’d have believed it. Yet here we are.”
Computing life in a nutshell. When the first Intel powered MacMini’s dropped they performed almost as well as the fastest G5 tower in CPU-centric tests. Years ago when I was used to replacing my computer every 2-3yrs if you had told me many people would be using 6 or 7 yr old towers for their daily work I’m quite sure I wouldn’t have believed it. Yet here we are. 😉
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Bummer if there is no new hardware mentioned. If it’s true I guess it will be Sept/Oct before we hear anything (if we hear anything).
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[Bill Davis] “It’s all Apples fault.”
Well now that that’s settled… 😉
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[Bill Davis] “Consider that here on the Cow, visitors get a custom place to discuss Prelude and SpeedGrade, but nowhere to discuss Compressor? “
There used to be many more Apple sections but Apple keeps killing its products, which means discussions about the products eventually die which means the forums eventually go away. BTW, there is a general compression forum at the COW where you can talk about Compressor if you want and if there was enough discussions just about Compressor I’m sure there would be a Compressor forum just like there used to be a Soundtrack Pro forum, a DVD SP forum, a Color forum, an Xsan forum, a LiveType forum, a Shake forum, etc.,.
What would be weird is if Adobe and Apple had the same amount of forums on the COW (or if Apple had more) even though Adobe offers a much broader product line.
In my experience forums (and I mean forums in general, not just the COW) are driven by their users. People will talk about what interests them whether or not there is a specific place to talk about it, and if the talk about a certain subject is frequent enough then a new forum will be made just for that subject. For example, on DVXUser they recently added a Coloring/Grading forum because a user asked for it and enough other users showed support for it. If it gains traction it will stick around but if it’s mostly a ghost town it will eventually disappear. Probably the most germane example for us is this very forum. It didn’t exist until discussions about X started appearing all over the COW and Tim moved them all under one banner. If there was never a debate there never would have been a Debate forum.
[Bill Davis] “But if you’re looking for someplace to get your car fixed, if the preponderance of the signs are all about Chevy Branded services – and you don’t drive a Chevy – it kinda does send a pretty clear signal about the shop focus. “
Or it sends a pretty clear signal that GM just sells cars under a lot of brands. 13 to be exact. Toyota, on the other hand, just has two brands; Toyota and Lexus (Scion is getting absorbed into Toyota). If the shop is open to servicing any make/model of car why would you expect the list of Toyotas to be the same length as the list of GMs?
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[Oliver Peters] “Obviously they could have created the same tools to go between FCP7 and FCPX as Intelligent Assistance has created. In fact, Apple actually said it wasn’t possible. “
The fiasco around brining in FCP 7 projects has always stuck in my head as an example of Apple being blinded by their own ideology. How someone thought not being able to import old FCP projects was a good idea is beyond me. And then to say it was impossible only to have Philip do it a few months later. To you point they obviously knew it could be done, they had to have known that the user base would want it (because the user base had always had it) but they omitted it anyway because it wouldn’t be ‘perfect’. Just tone deaf. The inability to bring in FCP 7 projects coupled with the ability to bring in iMovie projects was just iMovie Pro canon fodder.