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[Jeremy Garchow] “In this thread, how many people own and operate Windows desktop machines for your video editing business?

How long have you been doing so?”

40 per cent on Win since 2007, 70 per cent since August last year. Hopefully at 90 per cent by Autumn this year.
But I am not really an editor, we do other post work.

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[Davee Schulte] “Really guys? The laptop is a crappy product because it can’t be easily upgraded? Is popping open your laptop really a part of your daily workflow?? You don’t pop open a TV or Toaste. What’s the difference. The PC is becoming an appliance that most people use for about 3 years and then upgrade by buying a new one. I’m not saying its a good or bad product, but I’m ok buying a warranty and getting a new computer if one breaks. Soon, laptops will be as thin as paper, how are you going to upgrade then??”

There is the ability to upgrade and the ability to swap parts for repairs. Two different things. My toaster doesn’t run on a battery and it doesn’t cost 2000 dollars nor does my business depend on it-only my mood in the morning which is mostly shit anyway. If your car’s radio is broken, you don’t throw away the entire car including its motor. How much is a battery replacement or ram replacement for this product, given hat its glued/soldered to the base?

The previous MBP was a great laptop. With eSata and USB3 it probably would have just brilliant. This one I find… problematic and I wouldn’t buy it. And that has nothing to with its performance which is presumably good.

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[Paul Jay] “Yeah terrible.

And it does 9 streams ProRes HQ from the internal storage. What a crappy product.

Never gonna buy it. It’s just a Fast iPad which i can’t open up myself…..

Sarkasm off.
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With 256 GB storage in the base model I am damn sure you’ll do a hell of a lot of editing and projects with Prores or Uncompressed from internal storage.
Uohhhh, it has flash storage. Wow, now that’s really something new. When did the first laptops with flash storage show up again? Right, 2007. Sony Vaio.
None of that is what this topic is about anyway.

Reality on.

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The big message of the article really is that Apple uses something exciting and new to squeeze lots of undesirable things under people’s nooses so the bad gets overlooked and is forgotten.
Everybody talks about the display, few about the locked-down nature and the lost “legacy” ports. They could have build a “regular” MBP with retina display.
So what if it’s 0.24 inches inches thinner. Is that seriously making any difference in day to day usage or is it just a show-off that’s paid for with all the mentioned issues?
I am really curious about the lifespan of such a machine when its under heavy load day in and out beyond what people do with an AIR, especially with a Keppler GPU.

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[Jim Giberti] “[Craig Seeman] “It think radical change is afoot and they don’t want to encourage people to buy interim models.”

Craig, I’ve asked this in a post below already? Suddenly it’s excused as “avoiding nterim”, as if it’s some compromise not worth dealing with.
There is nothing interim about it in the way you mean it. Sandy bridge brings more cores, PCIe3, more lanes, Sata6G, USB3, there are modern GPUs. None of that will change with Ivy Bridge. It’ll be 22nm and use less power. And by the suitable Ivy Bridge Xeons ship they will be “interim” because a new Intel roadmap will be out there.
If something is interim then it’s the current “update”. And that’s not even “interim”, just a “rim-job”.

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[Craig Seeman] “They’re not doing interim updates because they want to move people past the current technology as quickly as possible.”

Craig, I don’t even know what that is supposed to mean.
Interim updates? Why is it interim? Sandy Bridge comes with PCIe3 and more lanes, more cores, there’s Sata6G, there are faster GPUs, there’s USB3. None of that will be any different with Ivy Bridge. They are 22nm and use less power. That’s pretty much it.

And if they wanna move people past current technology as quickly as possible, maybe they should also skip 2013 and go straight for 2020 because by the end of next year, whatever tech ships will be current and a new Intel roadmap will be out there.

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[Jeremy Garchow] “This thing is as locked down as it possibly can be. I bet we can expect more of this “engineering” from Apple in the next Pro machine they build in the year 2000.”

Out of curiosity: how do you see/rate all this? Do you think this is all due to technical reasons or motivated by other intentions? Do you rate it good, bad or don’t you care, also with regards how this might start to carry over to other products?

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[Michael Hadley] “Now it looks like I/we have to wait another 6-18 months. Or, move everything to another platform. Neither option is a good one.”

You’re forgetting option 3: waiting 6-18 months, getting something that doesn’t fit your needs… and then moving everything to another platform.

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[Chris Harlan] “[Michael Hadley] “They are on record as promising to deliver new iMacs and MacPros in 2013. It doesn’t get any more official than that.”

Bull Schlitz”

So it went from a “likely release in 2013” to “being on record promising to deliver”.
It’s has all the characteristics of an abusive relationship. Along with all the promises that everything will be better, soon, and twisting words to fit expectations. Anyone remembers the Lemmings commercial?

And so the saga continues (now hitting play on track Imperial March of Star Wars soundtrack).

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“… that they will LIKELY be released in 2013”.
Keeping the escape route open, won’t you?

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