Posts by Jim W

Waiting for a new Mac Pro myself with high powered GPU. Anorexic and unupgradeable is not for me. A heat gun to get inside? Give me a break. Is this the new direction at Apple. (User since the Apple II).

@ Marvin  If not in a desktop, where are you going to put the latest power hungry, heat producing NVidia GPUs, Xeon level processors, multiple hard drives, SDI HD up to 4k video i/o cards, etc. And don't say it will all be on...

Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz Unless you have a 55 inch tv and sit too close, nobody can tell the difference. Video Pros certainly can tell the difference between 720 and 1080. There are a lot of us on Macs, at...

Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar At its current speed, a single Thunderbolt connector does not match the total combined throughput of all the slots and interfaces available in the Mac Pro. Running a Promise Pegasus RAID system and...

Quote: Originally Posted by yuusharo Apple didn't "eliminate pro features," they rebuilt a new foundation for what they want their video editor to be. Any time you make a break from the past and start over like that, you're...

Quote: Originally Posted by yuusharo Ha, explain to me what's "easy" about rewriting a complex video editor from scratch? When you think about it, wouldn't the "easy path" be to simply update FCP8? For a company...

Quote: Originally Posted by mcarling People buy the Mac Pro for anything computationally intensive. CAD, video editing, simulations, etc. A tiny subset ever needed the PCI slots and nearly all of them can now be accommodated by...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 You might want to read for content. The whole point in having a midrange performance Pro is to drive sales so that some of the development costs for the high end model get absorbed. I'm pretty...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin But costs as much as 3 x 27" iMacs, which includes 3 x 27" LED IPS displays worth $3,000. Intel takes too long to update the Xeons. The E5 Sandy Bridge chips are coming in Q1 2012 now, a...

Also, a BTW, Apple needs more profit? They're sitting on more cash than the US government.