Kevin Patrick
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[Chris Harlan] “Miracle Macs?”
Oh. Excellent. I did not see that one coming and I pointed right at it.
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[Gary Huff] “What’s wrong with Windows?”
I realize it’s only been a minute since you posted this questions, but I’m surprised you haven’t gotten a lot of responses.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “So why don’t they kill it?”
It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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No offense to Shane, but at this point I’d say he’s only mostly right.
While Apple didn’t announce a new Mac Pro, they did not announce the end of life of the Mac Pro. It’s still on their web site and you can still order one.
They also didn’t announce any new iMac’s either, if that helps anyone feel it’s not over yet.
So, I think Apple has to do one or the other before we can concede Shane to be completely right.
But, mostly right is greater than pretty right.
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[Herb Sevush] “How about a 64 gig SSD Classic IPod at a reasonable price”
That should easily fit in the Nano, not sure I need the Classic form factor. I wonder if Apple’s concerned people would buy more Nanos if they were higher capacity. Less long term revenue from a Nano (which doesn’t run apps) as opposed to a Touch.
But, since I have an iPhone (or an Android for that matter), I don’t need a Touch. I want a high capacity Nano.
Perhaps if we both sent Apple some feedback …
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[Herb Sevush] “I’m the last person alive who wants the ipod strictly for music and with an SSD”
Me too. Just music, lots of it and without using a mechanical, temp sensitive HDD.
I had a Nano in my car, which I dropped on my lawn so I could water it.
I replaced it with a Touch, so I could get more storage. The other day the Touch (in my car’s glove box) gave me an overheat warning. Which I’d never seen, even on the Nano. It stayed in the too hot state for a long time. I wonder why the Nano never had an issue, but the Touch did. Is it really just the larger display? Or did the Nano not have a temp sensor and just played?
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It’s good to hear Adobe working on support for Mac users.
Did they say whether the OpenCL/GL work was just being targeted for PS or are they planning on adding Premiere Pro to this support?
Or did I miss somewhere that CS6 PR is already adding OpenCL/GL? I have a Quadro 4000 along side a 5770, but I didn’t check to see if PR recognized 5770.
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[Walter Soyka] “did you really approach Windows with an open mind?”
Probably not. I wasn’t trying to review or contrast Win 7 to OS X. I had just installed it to help someone out, so I wasn’t really giving it much thought at the time. I quickly stumbled across some odd things which I wound up discussing in my response about using Win 7 recently.
To me, the use of drive letters seems old and antiquated. But perhaps it’s a nostalgic thing for long time PC users and that’s why the keep it around. My first computer was a 16 KB, dual floppy monochrome 80 character wide (I forget how many lines) text only IBM PC. So I do go way back to the day of A: and B:. So I do get it.
[Walter Soyka] “We’ve seen this argument over and over on this forum.”
I don’t think my few comments on Win 7 are similar to the exciting discussions that go on here about FCP X. I doubt I could come up with any valid reason why Win 7 would not work for me. Regardless of how odd I may think Microsoft does things, it would work just fine for me.
Although, it appears that the death of the Mac Pro may have been greatly exaggerated. If that’s the case, then maybe I’ll come back and bash Windows. (sorry, I couldn’t resist)
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[Herb Sevush] “That was the sole purpose of your original post, what else was there?”
It may seem to have been my purpose, but it wasn’t.
I was simply responding to the question about whether I had used it. I had. And as I pointed out, I could work with it, but I hope I don’t have to.
I think I was posting my preference and I clarified by saying that I’m not interested in bashing Windows. I’m long past that discussion. People should use what works for them.
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[Herb Sevush] “Tell me how easy it is to totally uninstall FCP from a MAC”
Install FCPX? Okay, that doesn’t unistall it, but it does kind of move it out of the way.
Like I said, my examples are probably too trivial. Although I would like the OS to either help me be more efficient, or get out of the way. Which I didn’t encounter on my brief journey back.
[Herb Sevush] “Windows 7 can easily be operated by anyone smart enough to open a beer can”
I’m not so sure about that. I installed Win 7 on my Mac because a friend of mine needed Win 7 for a particular application that was not on a Mac and I needed to help them out. (plus it gave me a reason to peek back at the Win side of things) They needed to open up Note Pad, the Win version of TextEdit. I suggested looking in Program Files, since any application your looking for on a Mac is in Applications. Well Note Pad isn’t in Program Files. Why not? I don’t know. I guess Program Files has most of the programs you’ll need but not all the programs you’ll need. You can find Note Pad using Start > All Programs > Accessories. Which might lead you to think Note Pad is in a folder called Accessories, but it’s not. Accessories simply contains a Shortcut to Note Pad. Turns out Note Pad is located in the folder Windows. Make sense?
Yet another trivial example? Yes, I will concede that.
Will I be able to make the transition to Win if I have to? Yes.
Is Win 7 as easy to operate as a beer can? Assuming you’ve been opening other cans, I’m not so sure.
I hope I haven’t started a Win vs. Mac discussion. I’m not interested in bashing Windows.