Christian Schumacher
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[Andrew Richards] “Nowhere in this thread did I try to make any points about the performance of FCPX vs PPro or anything else. I bet PPro would scream on any CPU as long as it had an SLI stack of GPGPUs to call upon. It’s all about the CUDA”
Not everything is centered around CPU power, and that just furthers my point on Apple’s lagging as well. BTW, that’s not SLI, it’s “Maximus”, a sort of SLI but it’s another “thing”. Premiere won’t benefit from SLI. Just clarifying.
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[Andrew Richards] “You seemed to be making the point that Sandy Bridge Xeons had been out a long time, as if that were the proof anyone needed to see Apple had already closed the book on towers.”
[Andrew Richards] “Dell: we’re no longer a PC company
That on the heels of HP’s flirtation with dropping PCs.”I didn’t say that Apple nailed that coffin, but you jumped to quote that both HP and Dell were doing so. Aren’t their recent R&D and further releasing of SB Xeon Workstations the proofs that they are betting in the high-end much more than Apple, for that matter? Yeah, I know Apple should be waiting for a dual-socket, but that just shows how slow and inefficient their R&D is. Their computer line used to have a stronger appeal to that high-end niche. That is not quite the case recently, that was my point.
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[Andrew Richards] “Those are single-socket E3 Xeons. They can’t be had in dual CPU boards. They are essentially Core i7s that support ECC RAM.”
Well, add to those a headless Quadro 6000 (a Tesla) coupled with a CTO Quadro 2000 and watch your Adobe Premiere NLE run circles around any future dual-socket Mac Pro/TB/FCP-X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tcdpOeL5Ys
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Dell updated a workstation with Sandy Bridge Xeons a year ago.
It’s called T1600. And it’s for sale for a while now. Check their site.Oh! And HP also added SB Xeons to its HP Z210
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[Bret Williams] ” I think you try that in FCP 7 it just arranges them in the seq alphabetically. Oops.”
But in “List View” if you sort a bin of clips in columns, say “reel” or “duration”, and drag that bin to a sequence, it will be populated accordingly. All clips within that bin will get to the sequence in that sorted order. Very handy.
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[Rafael Amador] “I haven’t tried to defend Apple, what I wanted to say is that IMO the article is opportunistic.
Two days after Apple released his annual results.”I find it relevant since Apple is at the spotlight now, don’t you think so? Of course, this is not only a problem for Apple to solve but for the entire world, as it involves others industries and issues as well. And what about those articles stating that Apple is worth more than Greece? That’s pure non-sense market hype and it’s laughable that CNN pushes that “information” into place. Opportunistic at its ugliest.
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[Andrew Kimery] ” There’s a lot of room there to absorb the higher wages of manufacturing in the US if they wanted to but it doesn’t make good business sense for them to do so.”
I don’t think that 1.000 ipad glass polishers, for example, would automatically translate to 1.000 american jobs in your scenario. You’d have to factor something in first; The technological approach to the production line that would be developed then. Almost every task would have a machine created to accomplish it. So, instead of 1000 ipad glass polishers at a hypothetical US plant, there would be a couple of dozen workers operating a machine that polishes the ipad glass, and much more efficiently. At the end of the day, good business sense has to be made, regardless of where it operates. It’s a conundrum, really.
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[Rafael Amador] “Blaming Apple is easy, but lets think of the human cost of every single thing that we see or we touch or we eat every single day and lets get ashamed ourself.”
The point of the article is not to blame Apple, although some people may use it to do so. It merely displays Apple as a functional poster child of a system that, in order to meet the demands of consumers, it has to rely on increasing human costs to keep going. It reinforces your own point, Rafael.
“In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers — as well as dozens of other American industries — have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history.”“Apple is not the only electronics company doing business within a troubling supply system. Bleak working conditions have been documented at factories manufacturing products for Dell, Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M., Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba and others. ”
“Executives at other corporations report similar internal pressures. This system may not be pretty, they argue, but a radical overhaul would slow innovation. Customers want amazing new electronics delivered every year.”
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To put things in perspective:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/01/24/things-that-apple-is-worth-more-than/
“Also, Apple just isn’t worth more than the entire economy of Singapore. Can you buy Singapore for $350 billion? Can you buy Apple for that? Well, yes, you can buy Apple for that (ignoring take over premiums to be sure) but you most certainly cannot buy Singapore for that.
For GDP is the annual value added of Singapore, not the capital value which is what the stock market valuation of Apple is. The correct comparison of GDP is to annual value added by a company: essentially, wages paid plus profits. Which, for Apple, is still pretty high, agreed, but it’s not $350 billion.”
Although in raw numbers, 400B is bigger than 200B (Greece’s GDP), that kind of comparison is incorrect also. So, no. Apple isn’t worth more than Greece. Not even Greece’s GDP, if you take in account the annual value added by a company, which in Apple’s case is not 200B.
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[Gerry Fraiberg] “Fanboy or not, regardless of your thoughts on the company and its products, the fact is that Apple at the moment is hugely successful. From the Tech Crunch article: “At over $400 billion, Apple is now worth more than Greece, CNN Tech says.””
Who’s to say that Apple isn’t a strong growing company? I was responding to a poster joking that Greece wouldn’t last forever. And being the cradle of our west civilization, I guess they will last as long as anybody here.
The thing omitted in your report is that Apple is worth more than Greece’s Annual GDP. That’s a fact.