Phil Hoppes
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Well, I have an application I use (a video bike trainer) that uses my 55″ Samsung as a monitor for a small WinXP box that hooks to the trainer. I run it 1920×1080 and it looks great for that specific application but I would hate to use it for editing or anything else other than viewing. The pixel’s are so large that detailed work would be hard to do. I keep waiting for Dell to release a 27″ 2540×1440 LED backlit IPS monitor for my windows box but they have not done it yet. The Mac 27″ monitors are the closet thing to something like that but I’m still not keen on the glossy finish. I prefer a Matte finish as I’m sure you and most others do also.
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Darren covered this very well. It’s been years since I’ve done any serious development work and that was mostly Perl scripts for work I did on Linux workstations. I have a 17″ MBP which does have lots of real estate but my “geriatric” eyeballs can always use boost. I’m not a minimalist when it comes to having desktop work area. I use FCPX but I also use NukeX, Maya, Modo and host of other programs. I also tend to be very ADD in my workflow so it is not uncommon at all for me to have 4 or 5 applications all open all at the same time and be bouncing back and forth between them. It works for me but I’m sure not for someone else. I like the space. It would be sad to see everything go to laptop only with no large monitors. I just don’t see that happening.
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[Darren Durbin] “The ‘hardest’ problem with dropping desktop support ( as has been mentioned ) is that you suddenly don’t have anything on which to write your iOS apps… Apple could port Xcode to Windows, but there’s no sign of them doing so.”
Ah, that’s a very, very, good point. Had not even thought of that. Show’s how much code development I’ve done lately. For that alone it makes for a strong argument for the longevity of desktops for the foreseeable future. Not that development could not be done on a laptop however. I’m strongly considering getting a 27″ display for my MBP this year just for running FCPX and some of my other 3D apps. You can never have too much screen real estate in my book.
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iOS ‘s largest difference from OSX is that it does not have a real file system, at least not visible to the user. I made the case that it will be some time before any AXX core cpu can give the same user experience as a iX Intel CPU. I believe that will hold true for some time until there is a 64bit multi-core AXX. But as technology marches on and Apple’s foundries press towards smaller lithography the performance curves of the two CPU’s could get pretty close together, at least at the point were iMac’s and MBA’s are concerned. At that point, if it made business sense (and there are plenty of arguments both ways on something like this) Apple could drop Intel completely and have all of their products run their CPU. Once they are on their CPU it does not make a whole lot of sense to keep development of 2 OS”s. Apple has done both of these things in the past. The CPU’s they have changed twice. Motorola 68XXX -> Power PC -> Intel. They know how to do it and were the pitfalls are. They changed OS’s in a big way when they bought NeXT and created OSX from Nextstep. Changing OSX to iOS would probably more like merging the two OS’s together. OSX is still a unix kernel. I can’t say that I know what the kernel for iOS is based upon but either way merging the two into one unified OS is a hard problem but certainly not impossible. Again, it would have to make sense from a business perspective but merging two mammoth software developments two one has it’s cost advantages.
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I would agree actually but not all this year and not in the order you listed.
This year MacPro’s – Toast.
1-3 years – MBP’s – Toast.iMac’s…… That’s a tough one but I think the traditional desktop probably has another 5 years left in it. I think that iOS is going to take over everything but, that being said, multi core ARM chips are still a long ways away performance wise from a multi core iX CPU and that’s going to take a bit longer to supplement. It is just a matter of time however when a mulit core AXX chip can essentially perform the tasks required to make the user experience the same as a iX CPU one has to wonder how long Apple will stay with Intel and then with desktops. Desktops themselves may actually die as you speculate with the large screen diehards relegated to getting a second monitor. You may just have them all nailed but just a matter of time.
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I picked up this version of MBP back in October. This is, without a doubt, the best MBP I’ve ever owned (I’ve had 4 counting this one). You can upgrade to 16Gb of Memory over at MacSales (Down to $239 as I type now) and also get blazing fast SSD’s from them. I got their conversion kit and pulled out the optical drive, which I never use, and installed a Seagate 750Gb Hybrid drive. I run bootcamp (do install this BEFORE you pull the optical if you plan on doing this) so on my data drive I partitioned it for 250Gb HFS and 500GB NTFS. Go to Paragon Software and you can get HFS drivers for Windows and NTFS drivers for OSX so you can read/write to either drive no matter which OS you are booted. Runs really sweet and 8 threads for rendering is very nice.
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I would agree. They are in a very bad position. I’m of the camp that Ballmer has to go. That company is in dire need of some new leadership blood and new focus and direction. The tablet market is already getting very shaken up with Androids, Kindle’s, Nook’s, etc. In one sense it may be too late already. Take any product and any market and there are slew’s of studies that the first to the market, as long as the product is good and well sustained will always garner the most market share and is incredibly difficult to unseat. Those very late (Microsoft) to the market often never make it at all. It remains to be seen how well the Win8/Nokia products will fair as well as Win8 tablets. We all shall see.
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[Andrew Richards] ” their bottom line isn’t hurting for now.”
Yes, but their overall performance both in new products (none) and market share along with their valuation has been nothing short of abysmal. I like uSoft but they hardly innovate and certainly don’t lead, they are really “just there” anymore. Just existing simply because of inertia is a very bad place to be, especially in high tech. Darn near killed IBM and it did kill a host of others.
Apple has relatively little (in proportion to their current overall revenue and revenue mix) to gain and actually a lot to loose (major hardware sales to just who you want them to license their OS too, Dell and HP). It would be suicide. Nice for you, very, very bad for Apple.
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That strategy sounds just like Steve Ballmer’s Poo Poo of the iPhone when it was released. Steve was going to “get Rich” selling a zillion installations of Mobile Windows as opposed to Apples dumb idea of getting $600/phone.
Gee…. how did that work out?
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… and if you don’t like that shoe falling the other one is there will be a point where iOS revenue is 90% or higher and at that point all iMacs and Air’s will ship with A10 16core or 32core cpu’s running iOS and OSX will be completely dead. They switched both OS’s and CPU’s before and they can certainly do it again.