George Loch
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Nope. You can download the test app from the motion section of Apple’s website just to be sure but I am 99.9% sure it won’t even let you try.
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[Bryce Whiteside] “It was $561.75 after 25% of $749.00 and free shipping. “
They are actually $469 shipped today.
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[Walter Biscardi] “So maybe Apple’s not all that excited about these new machines.”
This seems to be a clear “bandaid” until they can deliver a more updated solution.I would expect these to remain until macworld or later.
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I think they are feeling pressure from the “Dell Squeeze”. Have you seen the price and features of the Dell 24″? It blows the doors off an Apple 20″ and the 23″ for $999 or less.
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[Walter Biscardi] “Well one good thing about the new machines is that the old ones dropped to great prices. I just picked up an original Dual 2.0 model (8GB RAM version) for $1,899 at Club Mac along with a new 20″ display. So while the upgrade was nice, they are sure good for folks who want great deals on the older models.”
I agree. There is such a small difference in performance from a 2.0 ->2.3 that it would be better to put that money into ram, HDs or displays.
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I thought the top two models had always had 3 PCI-X? One was 133 and the others were 100.
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What specifically are you needing help with?
I guess I see lower thirds as somewhat straighforward but, I may be missing something.
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Bad idea to upgrade to ANYTHING in the middle of a project. My expereince with FCP upgrades is they generally have some issues at the beginning. I would be very cautious.
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Just hold tight. There will most likely be some bumps in the next couple of months and they will likely be immediatly available so I would hold off and wait it out.
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First of all I do realize that we are not changing Apple’s mind here in this discussion but, there is precedence and reason for the argument. There are several companies that encourage students to make the change from academic use to commercial use by offering them something for their initial investment. For example, Alias allows you to buy an academic->commercial upgrade from the education license. It works out to be a little cheaper in total for this path actually but the main point is you get to take your initial, albeit smaller, investment and get some application out of it.
I just don’t see how it hurts Apple to do this when they get a practically guaranteed customer for future upgrades whereas they take the risk in having them go elsewhere when they graduate due to cheaper perceptively cheaper H/W and market pressure.
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