Kevin Patrick
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I believe some of the following discussions that came about back then pointed to the modification of the metadata. If another application touched the metadata of the the, FCP X would then tag the file as Modified. Which I suppose is true. Unfortunately, there’s no ability to re-link media. Hopefully Apple will add that in the next release. There are a fair amount of people who need this feature. I sent Apple feedback on this back in July.
I suppose setting the permissions of the file to Read only, when FCP X is not running might address this issue. Kind of a cumbersome work around though.
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10 GB of RAM is probably too low. When I run FCP X it always seems to be running with over 7 GB. Having t least 16 GB is preferable. I have 24 GB. With only 10 GB, you’re probably running into situation when you are paging. Which you can obviously check in Activity Monitor.
Also, running FCP X and Lion can be an issue for RAM. Many people seem to have an issue with Inactive Memory with this combination. And this will cause performance issues. I see it quite a lot. It appears that people don’t see it on Snow Leopard. A simple work around for this is to run the purge command in Terminal. You can also get some free apps in the App Store to do this as well. I run purge all the time, while FCP X is running, never had an issue. Open up Activity Monitor, choose the option to show the Memory usage pie chart when hidden. That way you can see your Inactive Memory status by simply showing the Dock icons. When it gets too big (like over 1-2 GB for me) run purge.
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Did you click on the order and read the description?
I think they need Frank Oz to do a voice over on that list.
Although one item would have to be soiled.
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Wow. That’s pretty impressive. Although, I’m not sure how I’d feel having such a realistic looking doll standing next to my Mac staring at me all day, especially with that expression.
I’d probably pull a Castaway and start conversing with it. Probably not in a good way. Wait, is there a good way to converse with a doll? (I think I’m doing right now)
In terms of Apple’s position on legal rights. Who knows. Maybe Steve had something to do with it. He knew some people thought he was an assh*le. (sorry, his words)
Either way, pretty impressive but pretty creepy too.
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So products like the Kona 3G work. But external graphics don’t. (or have issues that may not be resolved in the short term)
To me, that seems like it might not be possible to use a CUDA product for those who want to also use Adobe products. Or am I missing something?
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[Frank Gothmann] “some stuff will work, some won’t, there will be issues, revised drivers, certain incompatibilities, reduced performance, etc.”
Isn’t how Windows boxes work?
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
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IBM is a very good company. They’re successful. They make money and pay dividends. That’s a pretty impressive accomplishment for a company that’s as big as they are and has been around as long as they are. They also record the largest number of patents for any company every year for the past 18 years. (at least according to IBM)
Although I’m not sure Apple would be a better company being more like IBM.
FCS might still be around. But overall, I’m not sure Apple would be better to be like IBM.
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[Bill Davis] “And at least in the retail sense, this is the total antithesis of a company that wants to “exert control” at every stage.”
I think you experienced Apple’s desire to exert control at every stage. Your positive experience happened in Apple’s store. A place where they have complete control over the user’s experience. An experience that impressed you.
Other companies have tried and failed to what Apple is doing at retail. While Apple is not only successful, but their stores have some of the highest revenue per square foot in the industry. At least according for this Forbes article.
The retail experience was very important to Jobs. A position that reported directly to him.
Apple may become more like IBM. But I wonder if (and probably when) they do if your experience will still be the same. Or if an IBM-like Apple will pay a little more attention to the bottom line as opposed to the consumer experience.
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IBM’s a successful company. They’ve been around for a very long time. Not many companies can say that in their industry, or many others.
But Apple is beyond successful. Apple has done some pretty impressive things over the years. They’ve done it by operating in ways that are completely foreign to companies like IBM.
I think anyone who is close to Apple and it’s employees will tell you that Steve Jobs is the one who has driven this company. Driven it the way he felt it should have been driven.
Now that he is gone, I won’t be surprised if Apple becomes more like IBM and less like Apple.
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Alright. I’ll admit it. You’re right about the whole 1 TB HDD causing all the long lead times. (I just wasted a bunch of time testing it out, being the skeptical person I am)
But … Only if you agree I’m right about a new Mac Pro coming soon.