Gary Huff
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[John Pale] “Or something that’s not even a Mac.”
Windows Pro!
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If the leaked photos are true, than the case is the same, so I would assume the same number of current USB ports. Having Thunderbolt is great, but I’d still add an eSATA card.
I’m not terribly concerned about number of PCI slots. I’m assuming at least one 16x for the video card, and that, at the moment, is the biggest deal for me. Eventually I’ll add a proper monitoring output card and perhaps the Qio interface card, but that’s currently all I need for the foreseeable future.
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[Steve Connor] “If these specs were correct would you be happy with them? Providing we get a reasonable choice of graphics cards of course.”
Yes, I would be fine with that.
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[Bernard Newnham] “Windows 7 works very well, and W9, which I’m running in VirtualBox, doesn’t appear to add anything for the desktop user that I can find so far.”
That’s my thinking on the matter. I see nothing Windows 8 brings to the table that encourages me to upgrade from 7.
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[Daniel Frome] “Ever since buying my i7 macbook pro I rarely used it, as mobility always trumped CPU power in the last 2 years of my job.”
Having the i7 Quad Core 17″ MacBook Pro is great for DIT work (ExpressCard is handy here, but that Belkin dock will be great to have come this fall) and it’s beefy enough to easily do all my editing tasks on the road. Even then, however, I still like to sit at my desk and work when I’m home. 24″ trumps 17″ every time, and I just like the feel of sitting down to a typical desktop to work. Right now I have a Windows PC that has performed excellently for me, but as I work more and more in FCP7 for work, I find I’d like to not have to dig out my laptop when I get home to open projects.
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[tony west] “When I bought my Mac I was made fun of at the time by “computer” people.”
Did you buy your Mac to do editing/creative work on or to surf the web and tinker with?
Back in the day, it was generally understood that Macs were better for graphics/video (even though I couldn’t afford one at that time and made do with Windows 98SE). I would assume that was just friends in your circle as opposed to those in the creative field.
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[Robert Brown] “I have a dual boot on my MacPro. Win 7 works fine I don’t know why people hate it so bad.”
It’s trendy to do so. Makes you part of the “in” crowd.
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[tony west] “Her information was right though.”
If the information we’re hearing is right. Lots of bad info about the iPad right before release too.
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[Rick Lang] “Gary, sorry for redundant post re Belkin. I didn’t notice you had started a new thread re Belkin as I was buried reading in this thread!”
No, that’s cool! Yes, I’m interested in the Belkin. Kind of expensive, but it looks very nice so far. Of course, it all depends on how “Plug and Play” it turns out to be when people actually get it in their hands.
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If that’s true, we’re either getting a refresh or Apple’s done with them.