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  • Review: Samsung T7 Touch SSD builds upon the T5 in every way

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    Happy Samsung T3 & T5 user here. I’m doing less work that requires a fast disk in my backpack everyday, so I may skip this one, but I kinda wish I had more use for the upgrade. 
    watto_cobra

  • CES 2020: Best of Monitors

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    Is anyone offering something on the ballpark of Apple's Pro Display XDR?

    I'd love to see more action in the higher-end. That space has been kind of deserted, aside from Eizo & NEC.
    watto_cobra

  • CES 2020: Best of Wi-Fi and Networking

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    razorpit said:
    Prior to purchasing my first AirPort Extreme rounder ~ 2006, I use to use D-Link stuff. Now that Apple has decided to get out of one of the most important segments of establishing a 'private and secure' network I'm going to need something to fall back on. Is D-Link stuff still good?

    We setup Ubiquity hardware at the office, but I'm thinking that might be a little overkill for my home.
    Ubiqiti makes a mesh system called Amplifi which was just updated a couple months ago to WiFi 6. I use the prior Amplifi mesh system in my home and it's pretty great. If you like Ubiqiti gear, Amplifi is also a contender.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Pro Display XDR 'game changer' for 'Jumanji' studio

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    danielsutton said:
    I think the point is that even though this XDR display is being sold for less than a reference monitor, it is still grossly overpriced.  An example of this is the stand that is not even included in the box with the display.  The display itself could probably be reduced in price by at least a few hundred dollars, and Apple would still be able to make a healthy profit from it.

    Apple is not selling things based on the included technology, they are selling things at prices that they think customers would be willing to pay, even if it is grossly overpriced.  Who wouldn't mind spending at least a few hundred (or maybe a few thousand) dollars less on something, especially if there is no reduction in quality or performance?  Apple customers need to wake up to the reality that they are being fleeced, there is really no reason to rip us off like this.  The new Mac Pro may be a good machine, and the XDR display may be a good display, but selling them for $52,000?  Apple is playing everyone for stupid, and it needs to stop

    I do appreciate Apple and that they want to make state-of-the-art technology available to the masses, but they need to do it at reasonable prices, and they need to stop violating their customers by selling this monitor and this stand separately, when they could just as easily sell them together and give customers at least somewhat of a bargain.  This goes for the average Joe on the street, as well as production studios.  Everyone can benefit from saving money
    While all the things you say could be done, I think Apple is making a great business decision at the pricing they are offering now. 

    I retouch photos for a living. I specialize is higher end, art directed projects. I could see the other retouchers in the market as my competitors, many offer lower prices than I do. Instead, I often consider my real competition to be a potential new photo shoot: if I can take existing assets and create new photo compositions that save my client from orchestrating a $10000 shoot, why should I not charge $5000 even if the work only takes me a few days? It’s value added pricing. I’ve saved them money, sure, but also time & the overhead of managing photo crew, stylists & location/studio. That has value. Considering the alternatives in the pro editing display world, Apple has an opportunity to add value while allowing for healthy profits with the Pro Display XDR. 
    fastasleeppscooter63StrangeDays

  • Apple Pro Display XDR 'game changer' for 'Jumanji' studio

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    lkrupp said:
    It’s becoming more and more clear that the XDR monitor is a really good bargain for professionals. The overpriced meme simply doesn’t hold water. Not that the facts will stop the usual suspects from hammering away at it, though.
    This reminds me of how Apple first infiltrated the graphic design business, and built a must-have product for a whole business that is still in effect today. People said (rightly at the time) that Macs were not up to the standards of high end typesetting systems or photo retouching workstations. What Mac offered in the late 80s was 80% of the high end professional systems with the added bonus of being user-administered. There was a lot of criticism about how a bunch of computer nerds who couldn’t even draw were trying to torpedo the design business, and there was a wave of bad DTP design that left a creative stain. But very soon real designers were taught the Mac in school and it became the default tool of the trade. The high end graphic workstation systems stuck around for a time, but as the Mac added capability, they were pushed higher & higher until they eventually fell over the railing at the top of the skyscraper of the design business. 

    If Apple plays the VFX production business the same way, perhaps they can carve themselves another niche of must-have-Mac users?
    pscooter63StrangeDays