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  • I think the next Mac Pro update will not get a Blu-ray drive; however, I do think that when Final Cut Studio 3 is released Apple will add the option to get a Blu-ray drive.
    in Final Cut Studio 3 Comment by troberts August 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by wobegon Their other vertical system, the Zune, was a flop. Is the Zune doing that badly? Maybe they will write a Mac version of the Zune software so people with a Mac can use the Zune. Look how well it worked for A…
    in Microsoft 10K warns of iPhone, Mac threats as iPhone nears 1.1% share Comment by troberts August 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by zinfella I don't care what adapter you use, when you connect to a FW 400 port, the resulting speed will still be FW 400 speed! The ONLY advantage of an adapter is to CONNECT FW 800 device to a FW 400 port. Some machin…
    in Firewire 4: What's it good for? Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Thanks for the link. I will try them for a while to see how good they are.
    in New Internet search engine... Comment by troberts July 2008
  • .exe? I think you came to the wrong forum.
    in Good news Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Pascal007 The problem here is that the only one getting burned and shafted are the honest people who actually bought music tracks instead of downloading these tracks from P2P networks. Does the RIAA really believe that…
    in Yahoo! Music's death at age 3 warns of DRM's risk Comment by troberts July 2008
  • You need to think about how you are going to use the computer and iPod. If I had the money I would get the MacBook Air, once it got a 100GB+ SSD, and an iPod touch for music, photos, games. Of Course, if there are any useful applications in the iTun…
    in This vs That Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow ...But GPUs are designed to be stressed, it won't hurt it, if that's what you're asking. I am not worried about the GPU being stressed out, but the heat produced by the GPU when it is stressed out. Wit…
    in MacPro Upgrade: When and what? Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow But on the subject of the Mac Pro, the model using Nehalem processors should be one hell of a computer. Eight cores, 16 threads, and with OpenCL the graphics card will throw its number-crunching power in…
    in MacPro Upgrade: When and what? Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by DHagan4755 An enclosure change? Interesting! I hope you're right! While Apple's at it, how about allowing the loyal Apple customer to outfit a Mac Pro with the lower-priced desktop processors for those that don't …
    in MacPro Upgrade: When and what? Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by FlashmanBurgess The G5's can only use 8GB of ram (8 x 1GB). How are you getting 10GB? The first G5 models only took 8GB RAM, but the rest could handle 16GB RAM.
    in MacPro Upgrade: When and what? Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Updated iPod touch: 1 - The 8GB model will stay for the people that do not have a lot of music but want to surf the web. 2 - Since a 64GB model will be too expensive I can see the 16GB/32GB models change to 24GB/48GB. 3 - iTunes remote capabili…
    in Next ipod Touch to get camera?? Comment by troberts July 2008
  • They could have a father-son in a Best Buy-like store walking past a shelf of peripherals (video cards, sound cards, Blu-ray drives, etc.) and the kid reads the specs of the peripheral and asks his father if they can get it. The father says "No.", t…
    in What advertising concepts could Microsoft use against Apple? Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Making PDF an ISO standard should allow applications like Pages, Word, WordPerfect, AbiWord, KWrite, Mellel, etc. to create/open/modify a pdf document as easily as its own "native" format, correct? If so, would it make more sense to save to PDF than…
    in Adobe's PDF format now an ISO standard Comment by troberts July 2008
  • This is how their tick-tock plan is supposed to work. One year Intel introduces a new microarchitecture and the next they shrink the microarchitecture. This makes sense because it allows them to focus their efforts on one area. Intel Core microa…
    in Intel Ses- and Opt-Core CPUS Comment by troberts July 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 ...Apple may have to split the program into two modes (like Pages) for those who want a regular spreadsheet and those who want a more DTP approach to tables. There are a lot of AppleWorks databases out ther…
    in Microsoft expanding Mac team ahead of new products Comment by troberts June 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Sybaritic You're right, which makes one wonder if Apple purposely "cripples" the mini—a matter that surely has been discussed ad nauseam elsewhere. I wonder if Apple is concerned with the Mac mini cannibalizing iMac…
    in The Great (mini) Debate Comment by troberts June 2008
  • ...Apple's lack of love for it. Apple needs to treat it like a first-class citizen. I am not expecting it to have bleeding-edge hardware or even the fastest processors, but having current hardware is not too much to ask. When it was updated last Aug…
    in The Great (mini) Debate Comment by troberts June 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hobBIT Think about it, why would Apple introduce Blu-Ray in Mac Pros and 17" MacBook Pros unless this technology couldn't be used for their pro authoring suites like Final Cut? Just to have the option to view Blu-Ray …
    in Montevina MBP MB Speculation Thread Comment by troberts June 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by justThorne I'm a G5 user, but I won't complain. (I will complain if CS4 leaves G5's behind, however.) But I am a bit surprised. After all the trouble to make the OS more chipset-agnostic, why bother to leave the G5s…
    in Official: Mac OS X Snow Leopard doesn't support PowerPC Macs Comment by troberts June 2008