Mitch Ives
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[Marcus Moore] “I think the headphones thing is honestly something they just had to take as part of the package. It’s a profitable and popular brand (regardless of what us pros think of their quality)- so there’s way worse ways to spend money. And I’m sure it will eventually merge into something else. Eddie Cue talked tonight about speakers being a big opportunity.”
Makes sense. At the risk of piling on, I found Beats very mediocre. The fact that someone said they do $1 Billion in sales is damned impressive though. What was it P.T. Barnum said “nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public”…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Craig Seeman] “Yes, keeping in mind how mature Photoshop is, the Pixelmator developers are very aggressive. Given they are Mac only and taking advantage of Mac specific functions helps in that regard as well.
I don’t doubt that Adobe’s move to subscription which may have increased Pixelmator sales (and potential sales) has motivated them. “
Yes, this app was 64 bit before PS was. The subscription model was why I bought it, as well as iDraw…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Scott Witthaus] “Not familiar with this software. Looks to be a Photoshop Lite? Certainly can’t beat the price. Easy to use? Thanks in advance.”
I think it’s a bit more than that. I bought it awhile back, because CS6 only allows two installs and I had a Macbook Air that needs to do an occasional image tweak. Adding insult to injury… Pixelmator was a 64 bit app before PS was… ouch!
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Steve Connor] “Looks good, what’s the monthly rental? :)”
[Lance Bachelder] “Like Avid you can either buy or rent – $29 to buy or .49 cents month to rent – I’m thinking of buying as there are many times I don’t have the .49 cents in my account and I’d hate to lose access…”
You guys… you had me laughing… Lance is right… cash flow is a fickle thing…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Oliver Peters] “While true, this affects the new Mac Pros. These are just now shipping, so hard to say which OS comes installed. You might not have a choice.”
I can’t verify this, but someone has also posted on Apple forums that this is affecting his older MacPro (2008). FWIW, I have a 2008 and a new MacPro, but I haven’t seen it in FCP X. Can’t speak to Resolve or Premiere…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Tom Sefton] “For around $2k you will get 8tb of storage that is capable of around 450MB/s in raid 0. Long term it’s worth buying the 6 or 8 bay versions and running at raid 5 or 6 for a good balance of speed and safety. An 8 bay version in raid 0 would be achieving nearly 1000MB/s.”
As you say For $2230, we have a 6-bay Pegasus2 with 12TB of storage that runs 800-900MB/s in RAID 5 configuration. That’s cheap. Anyone who doesn’t think so may want to find another hobby…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Oliver,
Nice article. And a timely one since I’ve been working to be CC free.
I did see today that iDraw just got a big update, even though the version number doesn’t seem like it would be a big one…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Walter Soyka] “SSDs don’t suffer the same performance penalty for multiple seeks to different physical areas of storage that mechanical HDDs do. Speeds should not drop noticeably for OS, application, and storage use.”
That’s interesting, because it did here when I tested it…
[Walter Soyka] “This isn’t really true of current solid state storage. Check out the SSD Endurance Experiment [link].”
That is good news…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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A couple of things:
1) your speed tests don’t mean much on the internal SSD. Remember you’ll be running the OS, the program and your video files ALL off the internal SSD. That’s like three conversations simultaneously. The speed will drop considerably when all three of those are going on at the same time.
2) A little mentioned fact: SSDs don’t have the same life as a HD. So, plan on replacing SSDs more often. This is why we’re all wondering how long an external Raid made up of SSDs will actually last?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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I like Thunderbolt 2… 800-900 on the inexpensive disk array is nice…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill