[Paul Dickin]

[Andrew Richards] “whatever it is they are taking their good sweet time on is going to be a huge letdown for anyone expecting a proper…”
Hi
Apple have supplied the one word paraphrase for that sentiment: “Awesome!”

[Andrew Richards] “It makes no sense, so it must not be the reason.”
What is? Does the Haswell CPU/chipset/IGPU bring anything to the table by 2013?

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Once I got his name spelling sorted (Kilgroe) I was able to find it 😉
https://173.199.159.58/forum/showthread.php?76548-Did-APPLE-forget-APRIL-FOOLS-!-Mac-Pros/page2
https://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?80760-There-IS-a-new-Mac-Pro&p=1021970#post1021970

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
If Apple is going for Google –
then somewhere between iCloud and Facebook, and the iPhone camera (with Partners like Panasonic et al) –
through a metatdata-based video edit ecosystem –
it has to have a long-term strategy of circumventing YouTube.

FCP X (or rather what it will become) fits there right in the frame…

[Paul Dickin]

[Walter Soyka] “…but why should retina display affect the Mac Pro release?
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Maybe because next generation x16+ Thunderbolt is part of what Jobs/Ives envisioned for a replacement top end Mac? To allow unimpeded reworking of the ‘workstation’ meme – multiple retina TB displays…

Whatever it is I reckon it was there sitting in Jony’s design studio for Steve to drop in and admire since Intel got the Light Peak demo show on the road (with some OS X guts).

But Tim Cook can’t actually get a functioning supply train in operation – yet.

As to Pogue, in respect to the iMac I think his Apple Executive’s quote could have been referring to the full make-over next generation iMac with Haswell guts – which I understand will have vastly improved integrated graphics power. Enough power to allow all the ‘haptic’ stuff that’s floating around in the blogoshere 😉

A ‘new’ iMac meme in 2013, but in the meanwhile there will be an Ivy Bridge 2012 iMac (and Mac Mini) will just be a minor refig, like the Unibody 13/15″ MBP’s have just had.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Set the ‘yelling’ latency preference delay to zero. 😉

[Paul Dickin]

[Steve Connor] “They wouldn’t would they?……..”
[Jeremy Garchow] “They wouldn’t.”

“What I saw was, Apple was the only technology company I knew of where if a customer got angry with the company, they would yell and yell loudly but they would continue to buy,” Tim Cook said.

Nevertheless 9to5mac has it wrong – three sticks of RAM in a 4-channel mobo? 😉

[Paul Dickin]

[Frank Gothmann] “I am not really buying into the story that this will be it.”
Hi
I agree.
Looking back, this is what I posted on June 29th 2010:
“Put the hard drive bank (except for SSD boot drive(s)) and all PCI-e but one graphics-card slot outboard, with Light Peak connectivity.
Put the CPUs and the RAM back on a flat mobo with proper triple/quad channel configuration.
Sorted…”

That was before LP morphed into TB, but that’s where I guess Apple has to be headed.
Nearly two years on I now realise there’s something else I missed:
“Sorted – power without Sizzle…”

I think Apple will come up with something to help the ongoing Global Sizzling problem.
Which is particularly relevant to the West/US, which is why it may not be liked 😉

[Paul Dickin]

[olof ekbergh] “Does anyone remember Radius Mac Clones and their Radius Telecast.”
Hi
Yes!
My Radius VideoVision arrived in December 1993 in a Quadra 840AV Mac with 32MB RAM – the RAM alone cost nearly £2000, and a 5.4GB SCSI raid array that cost £6000 and sounded like a jet engine powering up…

Upgraded to the Telecast breakout box running component into a UVW betacam recorder, and later fitted into a PowerMac 9150 nubus Workgroup server (the one with 4 slots and a Quadra 950 case), I online editied corporate videos very successfully until Christmas Eve 1999.

After the shutdown for the millennium celebrations I never switched it on again…. 🙁
From then on I used FW in a B&W G3 with Premiere 6/6.5 and later FCP 2++ in G4s/G5s….

Whilst using Premiere v3.1.3 and 4 in the early days I remember often being up at 3am still trying to maintain sync on playout to tape of a 20min show. 🙁

With later versions of Premiere, and with Radius’ own Edit NLE software things were a bit more stable.
But everything was cut in 3 min sequences – that was how it had to be done ! 😉
I think Apple licensed some of Radius’ optimised code to incorporate into QuickTime v2.5 to help the loss of sync problems.

At the time I got the first system M100 as it started out was non-compatible with Quicktime, running its own proprietary media file format, so for that reason it got ruled out (like Avid was because it was only offline).
It was the 5MBytes/sec capability of the Quadra 840AV’s nubus system feeding into the Telecast’s component hardware that allowed full-res full-motion onlining to be achievable in practice (sort of LOL!)

The initial kit cost the price of a small house (it was paid for by a Government scheme).
The final late 90s kit cost the price of a small car – which I did pay for – because it earned me a living.

And just for the record I started as a film editor for BBC Television just after they began broadcasting on a second channel – BBC2 – in 1964 🙂

[Paul Dickin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Did Apple have a “I’m a Mac” MacPro commerical?”
Hi
I can’t find the quote, but I remember a report sometime in 2006/7/8-ish that Steve Jobs had decided that G5 supercomputer-style ads (and three-GHz-in-a-year’s-time keynote pronouncements) were no longer relevant.

Basically he’d said that the Mac fanbase were making such a good ongoing marketing pitch that Apple could in future just sit back and let it rip…

Same as is happening now 😉

That initial fans-do-the-work situation lasted until the 2008 dropping of the Firewire port on the 13″ unibody MacBook – Petition #1 (18600+ signatures) maybe helped to get it reinstated…

[Paul Dickin]

[Steve Connor] ” …they have tech that will help with Siri”
Quote from Macrumors:
Redmatica is basically a giant database management tool for organising audio samples …for sorting and indexing massive amounts of audio samples.