Gary Huff
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Okay, let me be clear on this:
Put three optical drives (one Blu-ray, 2 DVDs) and two internal SATA hard drive bays in your Mac Pro, please, accessible from the front of the unit.
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[Marc Fisher]oddly though Gary, I’ve had a Blu-ray burner hooked up to my Mac Pro (2006 1.1) model for more than a year already. I also have 2 internal dvd-burners, mostly because i refuse to get rid of the old, replaced one, so i just put them into the open bays I have. I have 4 sata drives internally, and I added a PCI-E sata card to get external drives hooked up.
I didn’t intend to say you couldn’t have that, just that’s it’s all internal bays without having to have external devices, which you cannot do with a Mac Pro.
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Some of us can actually build our own PCs and don’t experience any more downtime than a Mac with similar hardware would have if a component went out (plus, my PC doesn’t have that “issue” like the new Mac Pros where the mouse doesn’t work right if you have two monitors running on it).
I just spec’ed out my next upgrade (since I have a PC, I can just change out the guts and not the whole unit itself) and for the price of a basic Mac Pro tower, I can get Dual Xeon i7s (12 cores), Samsung SSD primary drive (the current speed leader), 16GB of DDR3 EEC RAM, and a GTX580, along with the new X-Fi Titanium HD sound card. Frankly, nothing Apple currently offers can compete, speed-wise, and I shudder to think what that would do with Premiere CS5.5 and H.264 footage (in a good way of course).
Plus, on my PC I have a Blu-ray burner, two DVD burners, and two external hard drive bays. Something else you can’t really do with a Mac Pro, but that comes in handy on a regular basis. Now, more than ever, we have choices. But I just wonder if Apple will remove that choice before too long by not even offering typical workstations anymore.
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Switch over to one monitor and see if that solves anything.
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You are right it’s not simply from AVCHD. The AF-100’s sensor is primarily designed for video (unlike HDSLR) so there is no moire or aliasing like the Canons, plus a bit better on the resolution side.
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[David Jones]I’m not sure I’d go with the AF-100, at least in terms of image quality. The compression rate is only 24Mbps compared to 44Mbps with the Canon eos series cameras
The AF-100 image is better than the DSLR image in almost every way, save for a bit deeper depth of field overall. The AF-100 uses AVCHD, a “professional” version of H.264, the Canon’s use a much-less efficient version, hence the need for the higher data rate.
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Are you running a two-monitor setup?
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[Craig Seeman]What an odd view of “failure.” An EOL product being sold at full price and they’re being snapped up. HP wishes they had that kind of “failure” with their discontinued tablet.
If people had built their business around an HP Touchpad, they probably would be.
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Why is Adobe a poor choice?
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It creates an internal export file.