Keith Koby
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Thanks for the link.
The NTSC DV sized presets would be more useful if they matched the FCP 7 legacy formats for ProRes. (720×486 vs the 720×480 that you have there). Not entirely sure that it matters to Premiere.
The Adobe Media Encoder as a whole would be much, much better if it didn’t down mix audio to mono or stereo. Just pass the channels through as is in the source.
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I don’t think you’ll ever see an HP in the front window or on the floor in there. The tekserve pro guys will definitely sell the z computers to you if you want them. They are after all “in the business of selling, designing and supporting creative solutions” for their customers. On the other hand, some of their customers are still firm believers in apple computers for several reasons.
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whatever man… just giving some speculation as to why you didn’t see a major overhaul yesterday. It looks to me like retina is a goal for them and one driver in holding off until they got it nailed down. a fatter thunderbolt is probably necessary along with a slew of other parts.
The other folks (the majority?) that might use mac pros (graphics) probably do give a sh*t, about such a feature. I know that the huge advertising agency next door to my office has an entire fleet of macpros…
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[Walter Soyka] “The Mac Pro should have been updated now, and then should have been updated again when Thunderbolt advanced enough to support higher-res displays and when higher-res panels became available.”
Can’t argue with you there… I would have loved to have seen it happen.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Retina display? Obviously N/A to a headless tower.”
Why do you say that? I tend to think that everything they make is headed that way. It’s just not possible with today’s thunderbolt connection and today’s production technologies for displays nor for graphics cards to power.
I’m just trying to read between the lines. “Later in 2013” starts making sense for that kind of transition, no?
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[Walter Soyka] “I get that for the iMac, since it has an integrated monitor, but why should retina display affect the Mac Pro release?”
retina thunderbolt display doesn’t exist yet, open cl/OS upgrades and fitting for a graphics card powerful enough to drive it need developed. why put the cart before the horse to release a redesigned macpro that won’t drive their next gen of display?
[Walter Soyka] “The G5 became the Mac Pro, running with Intel processors. Pretty significant upgrade if you ask me.”
Exactly. A pretty significant upgrade is what you should be expecting. retina capable, thuderbolt, usb3, faster processor, smaller more compact, no optical. a major overhaul… Think retina macpro version of retina macbook pro.
What I’m trying to point out is that dev and release hasn’t been in tandem on multiple product lines with them in the past. Why expect it to be different this time?
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I just replied in another thread that it should be acknowledged the procession of the switch to intel which first occurred in the laptop line and then rolled out to the imac and macpro.
The retina display is what will really drive an imac or macpro upgrade. Ask yourself; does it make sense to upgrade a product line now if your goal is to have thunderbolt retina displays and retina imacs in the next 6 mos or more? Did the G5 get any significant upgrade after the intel macbook release?
When you look at the macpro bump in that light, I think you can feel confident that there is indeed something big on the horizon. Otherwise, why bother?
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Apple also rolled out intel in the portable line first (January-February of 06) and didn’t get the MacPro shipping until August 06 (~6 months later).
Not that an exact comparison can be made here, but I think that it shouldn’t be overlooked. The new direction is retina oriented. The other product lines will follow in the next 6 mos or so (2013).
It is strange to see that people who know computers so well get so upset about this. The kind of processing available on the new laptop is astounding. The software just started to catch up to the hardware that is available, anyway. Take the development that is apparent in the retina mbp as an indicator of what you’ll see in the next imac and macpro.
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These aren’t the updates you are looking for. Move along.
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Just processor change. faster Westmeres..
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