Mark Petereit
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Apple will change the existing mini Displayport to Thunderbolt on all new iMacs.
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LOL! Yeah and a $66,000 Lexus LS is just an $18,000 Chevy Cobalt.
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> (pisses me off because macs are WAY over priced)
No they’re not. If they were, you wouldn’t be trying to buy one.
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Ah, thanks for the correction. I know at least one of the Lightpeak demos had the tech built into a standard PCIe card. I guess the whores in Marketing jumped all over someone’s case there.
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I think the obvious answer to that is because Thunderbolt is just now being released as a commercial product, whereas the 12-core Mac Pro tower was released several months ago.
Intel already has a Thunderbolt PCI-X card in production, so I’m sure adding Thunderbolt to a Mac Pro will be as simple as popping the card into the x16 slot.
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Sweet! Should make working with the .mts files from my Sony NEX-5 a breeze!
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I agree with all of the above. For your infrequent use and $2000 budget, I think the 110 is the perfect camera for you.
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Is bribing a MIS student at a local university out of the question? I would think a major university would have pretty fat pipes. Hungry students are universal.
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OK, so the “earth” is simply a spherically-warped flat image. So what you’ll need is a different flat image for each stage of your “lit” countries. Then you just swap the images each time you need an additional country “lit”.
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All the standard recommendations:
- Buy an 8- or 12-core Mac Pro
- Install 8GB or more of RAM, but make sure you install even numbers, matching pairs of sticks, best if they’re all the same manufacturer, yada yada yada
- Buy 2 or more fast, internal drives and RAID-0 stripe them for plenty of HD-editing speed. Use a SSD drive for your system drive for even speedier performance.
- Move projects to offline storage as soon as you’re done with them and keep your internal drives clean of clutter.
- Only use your system drive for OSX and FCP. Never copy media to your system drive. Don’t install crap you don’t need. (Keep your old system around for “playing”.)
- Buy a Matrox CompressHD H.264 Accelerator Card if you see yourself needing to compress your footage often to H.264 for web deliver or Blu-Ray authoring. Worth its weight in gold!
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