Rick Lang
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I just can’t say what I’m wanting more: significant upgrades or a thesaurus for Apple’s speechwriters since there must be a couple of words that can replace the “awesome” and “thrilled” that ring hollow after you hear them to describe every change and every gathering. Apple doesn’t need engineers as much as some sensitivity training towards customers’ concerns. That said I understand it can be difficult to please everyone and the much desired roadmap would play into the hands of its competitors. Still those competitors must clearly see that next generation Thunderbolt for example is going to happen and Apple will be the one to take advantage of it first, perhaps even in driving these large Retina displays.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Keith:
“The retina display is what will really drive an imac or macpro upgrade.”In that light, a Retina iMac or Mac Pro, with a 27″ screen, would be 5,120×2880 pixels. There may not be an existing single card from NVIDIA that can drive such a screen! Which means Apple might be waiting on NVIDIA to develop one as well as solving the Thunderbolt iintegration ssues related to discrete graphics cards. That screen at 220 dpi (double current resolution) would be mire than 14 megapixels.
Don’t remind me about my Power Mac G5 purchase. At least I’m still using the 23″ Apple Cinema Display (ADC) connected to my iMac but the G5 just died after 5 years.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Franz:
“Our pro customers are really important to us…don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year.”I suppose if this is going to be in the class of a ‘next generation’ machine like June 11th’s MacBook Pro Retina, it may not be ready yet. Could apply to a rack-mountable server for example as well as a rethought tower. Another year of angst? Comments generally are not sympathetic to waiting again for Apple to show you more love!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jeremy:
“Looks like it’s available in July. I just read it in fine print on retina MBP tech specs.”Thanks for finding the Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jeremy, I know the presentation mentioned Thunderbolt to Firewire adapters, but when I search the Apple Store, I can’t find them. Need one if I’m going to connect to my Firewire Canon video camera.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Marcus:
“FCPX 10.1 plus the announcement of a new MacPro would be a tremendous 1-2 punch.”When the poet said, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” he surely was thinking about this forum!
And getting more positive feedback from the professional community certainly does help drive software and hardware sales. Apple’s margin exceeded 40% last year and I can’t help feel that they can well afford to keep their high-end line of Macs going indefinitely especially as it was certainly part of Steve Jobs’ vision to serve the professional creative and scientific communities. .
I think the most technologically interesting development Monday may be if they revamp the Mac Pro Server to make it a true server configuration.
And since I love my iMac except for its graphicsi limitations, I’m hoping they will offer a design that allows replaceable graphics cards in the iMac! Now I know that sounds crazy, but that’s what I’d do if I was a Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Even if it’s 10.1.0, it doesn’t have to be a cost upgrade. For example if memory serves me well, Pixelmator did a large version upgrade for free. Given the incomplete state of 10.0.x, it’s reasonable to expect 10.1 to be free. Or keep going along the free 10.0.x upgrade path until it gets some respect from the general FCS community.
The Mac App Store certainly can have a lot of benefits to the user as a means of distributing and updating software at lower prices than boxed sets of software. Look at Aperture: $299 as a boxed set and $80 in the MAS (for the identical version). However as we know, Apple finds a way to make money and these low entry costs such as $299 for FCPX are not quite so cheap if the program is feature updated once a year for the same $299. In the future, after these 2012 free upgrades, you may only see free fixes. New features may well mean $299 each year. Not unlike Adobe’s subscription to all of CS6 for $30 a month this year.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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One possible explanation for the long period between upgrades is that the chips Apple wanted to use in their next iteration were originally due early last fall but were delayed by Intel until very recently. If not for that delay I think you would have seen new Mac Pros no later than last October. I may be wrong but that’s my guess.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Gary, sorry for redundant post re Belkin. I didn’t notice you had started a new thread re Belkin as I was buried reading in this thread!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Gary, Belkin has revised the dock to include eSATA and USB3.0:
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/05/belkin-upgrades-thunderbolt-express-dock-with-usb-3-0-and-esata-bumps-price-to-399-99/Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB