Christian Schumacher
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[Richard Herd] “That’s like saying the French Revolution was a failure. ;0
“HA! I see what you did there…That’s funny, Richard!
But even then, it took a while to chop all heads off!
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Interesting…As a side note, has anyone noticed that in Lion you can encode directly from the Finder using the “right click/services/encode selected files” command? There are not many picks to choose from, but it’s useful nonetheless. And to stay on-topic, there’s even an error message that mentions color management. So, has ML expanded that somehow? BTW, this “error” cancels the encoding process.
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[Mike Stevenson] “Or are you just scared that X is making 15 year old skateboarders edit circles around you on their macbook airs while popping kick flips. Hate on those that support X all you want, but at the end of the day if they cut their next oscar winning doc on it, and you’re watching their acceptance speech”
Wondering how that is going to be:
– Thanks, dude…[holds prize] How cool is that…Hey, I wanna thank Sky-rider…ahemm…D-Road…err…Psyco-path, definitely Psyco-path my man…don’t wanna forget anyone, but it’s tough ya know? [crowd laughs] Lemme see…Oh! My ipad! Without it this wouldn’t be possible. [throws fist in the air] Thank you, Apple! [crowd cheers]
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[Aindreas Gallagher] ” wait now -what’s going on?”
Everything changed…The new grass paradigm is upon us !
Haven’t you heard of the EOL of the Holland breed for foreigners ?
How are we supposed to reference top notch bovine EDL now ?
(You know, Enzymes Digestives Liquides)
World ruminants, unite ! Fight the XXX ! The Dutch cannot have it all ! -
[Richard Herd] ” Have you read Horkeimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment?”
“Each human being has been endowed with a self of his or her own, different from all others,
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[Richard Herd] “but I think it had to do with ganging and matching between shots. If that’s the beef, here, you can do that in the precision editor.”
I’m afraid there isn’t a way to gang different sequences – or shots – using this precision thing. Care to elaborate on that? Oh, wait…You’re gonna say that you never use this, so why bother to explain it? it doesn’t have a completely different name, it just won’t allow you to perform some of the tasks that every other professional editing software has already built in for years. If it looks like a pig, it’s a pig. You can try to put lipstick on it, name it what you will, but…
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https://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/10/apple_to_disrupt_notebook_space_with_radically_redesigned_macbook_pros.html
“In particular, people familiar with Apple’s roadmap say the Cupertino-based company currently plans to exit 2012 having completed a top-to-bottom revamp of its notebooks lineup that will see new MacBook Pros adopt the same design traits that have made its MacBook Airs an increasingly popular choice among mobile consumers.This will include new, ultra-thin unibody enclosures that jettison yesteryear technologies like optical disk drives and traditional hard drives in favor of models with lightweight chassis that employ flash-memory based solid-state drives, instant-on capabilities, extended battery life, and rely on digital distribution for software and media.”
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” And if you play BB King backwards it says, “Then why haven’t they killed it?””
Playing Slayer backwards it says “It’s on the chopping block, but first we’ve got to deal with the MacBookPro”
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[Andrew Richards] ”
Not the kind of R&D necessary to make an all-in-one or a ultra-thin laptop, that’s all I meant. Or even a dense server for that matter. Seems to me towers require the least R&D of any form factor.”Absolutely, but thinking in overall strategy HP, Dell and Lenovo are developing and releasing towers in a constant fashion, as opposed to Apple, which only puts effort into those portables. That’s evidence that contradicts what you have stated in this sub-thread, regarding Dell/HP. Perhaps these are considering to add more portables to their portfolio, and not to drop their entire desktop computer lines. That’s likely Apple’s goal.
[Andrew Richards] ” Everything else from Apple has been very friendly to RAM swaps in recent years.”
Yes, for now. Look at HDD replacement, the iMac’s hard drive has had further restrictions at its last iteration.
https://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs[Andrew Richards] “They decided they would not bother with midrange towers, so there wasn’t much for them to R&D while Intel lagged on releasing the E5, was there?”
Not for dual-socket machines, sure. Meanwhile at Dell, HP and Lenovo there are new workstations released with Sandy Bridge Xeons, the E3s. As soon as the E5s are available, these companies will release them too. So which one of these major companies are NOT betting on the enterprise? The mobile one, yep that’s Apple. And It’s very telling that they haven’t considered that intermediate market for midrange workstations. Check what they have come up with; the beefed-up iMac/Macmini? p-p-please…That’s what fits in their walled garden.
[Andrew Richards] “One or the other of us will be eating crow very soon.”
It may surprise you, but if I would be the one eating crow, I’d be happy.
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[Andrew Richards] “There is very little R&D necessary to take some parts from Intel or AMD and assemble them in an ATX chassis. Apple hasn’t ever bothered with 3000 series Xeon or Core series towers. It is clearly a market they aren’t interested in. Anyone can build a tower with parts from Newegg.”
Dell and HP design the chassis and the motherboard, don’t they? Just like Apple does? And that Newegg assembly doesn’t come with a 3 to 5 year support plan either…That Apple aren’t interested in mid-sized workstations is just a shame, look at their iMacs, soon these will have soldered RAM chips in them.
[Andrew Richards] ” If Apple’s R&D is so lousy, why can’t anyone compete with the MacBook Air, a product that actually requires some bespoke engineering?”
I thought we were talking desktops/workstations, but since you brought that up, the MBA and the other portables are the only things they put effort into nowadays. That’s not unrelated, either. Judging from the computer majors’ releases, Apple is the only one that truly represents a mobile company today. I grant you that, Apple’s R&D in mobiles is great, indeed. Mac Pro? Not so much. You know, the GPU has been lacking. And I wonder if that is just an accident too or it has been planned for a while. We’ll see when that pumped-up Mac Mini arrives.
[Andrew Richards] ”
I get that everyone is frustrated that Apple neglects towers, but this is nothing new.”Wait until Apple finally drop them. There, I said it 🙂
