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Apple Releases New 15" MacBook Pro, Updates 17" MacBook Pro
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Thanks, and I dont want to sound like an ass, but I have worked with all this stuff before (it is what I do), and this is not a good option you have provided. So yes no slot still a negative. The Store Drive is $1800 and can fill up quickly, so you still need to have a computer to transfer footage to a hard drive array for the client (now anther step apple just made us do). Where as the PCMCIA to Express adapter (to plug the cards right into the computer) is $110. So from a $110 to $1800 is a big new expense, isnt it? I would say that would be a setback! Beside, the hard drive readers bog down the workflow too much. With the Express adapter once the card is transferred directly to the drive array youre ready to check the shots right there in final cut, and hand the card back to the DP. Now there is another layer of transfer involved, and that just wont cut it time wise on set.
And yea, I know we are a minority, but thats what the pro models where for.
I suspect they, like me, have a problem with the format itself. That said, I see no reason for Apple not to offer it as an (expensive) option. Options are good!
Blu Ray also has DRM.
Why do people need FW800 external drives when you can get a 7200 RPM 500 GB drive inside the laptop?????
In the past when hard drives were smaller I can understand will run out of space. Likewise can understand when didn't have 4-6GB of main memory that the apps and OS might tap the internal drive a bit. However, now when can max out with 8 GB of memory and 500GB internal drives .... where is the contention problem with the internal drive?
Or you need to read off the disk and write to a second disk at the same time? (e.g. the raw audio gets dumped on disk and a mutated copy is also being dumped to a another disk at exactly the same time? )
To get stuff "out of" your workflow over time can go to the external drive.
Or is this want to power two sets of devices problem ( don't want to plug in both the laptop and external drive)? 0
You can daisy chain 4-5 drives and have no impact on bandwidth if you don't use the drives at the same time as the audio interface. What is the motivation behind multiple drives?
Because I buy Blu-Ray movies and I want to be able to rip them to my iPhone, rip them to my laptop, watch them directly on my laptop. I can buy a $600 PC that does this, but I'd rather not.
is 3.06GHz worth the upgrade ?
I'm using my MBP for processing RAW images from 21Megabyte files. Is the 3.06 upgrade going to help ? or is more RAM the better upgrade. (RAM is $1000, the faster processor is $300) or would both help ?
Will I see any difference ? with a faster processor ?
I'm using my MBP for processing RAW images from 21Megabyte files. Is the 3.06 upgrade going to help ? or is more RAM the better upgrade. (RAM is $1000, the faster processor is $300) or would both help ?
Will I see any difference ? with a faster processor ?
I suspect they, like me, have a problem with the format itself. That said, I see no reason for Apple not to offer it as an (expensive) option. Options are good!
Blu Ray also has DRM.
I agree that this is a problem, however the format can be licensed and thus there are options for players. Apple will not license FairPlay and therefore the only option for playing apple content is through an apple product.
I'm curious. You know enough about this forum to post here, so you must also read the forum...so, you didn't see this coming at all???
maybe. it's a trade-off. the 2.4ghz refurb is $1,699.00. but you get 2GB of ram, a smaller hard drive, and you don't get that ridiculous 7 hour/1000 charge battery.
i'd just spend the extra 300...
also no education discount on refurb...and you probably don't get the free ipod with the refurb either, so students won't find it so appealing now.
I agree! This is everything I need and at great price! I've never once used the express card slot on my previous gen MBP, but there many times when I wish that I had an integrated SDcard slot.
lol get a mac pro
roflmao see above
also, many "professionals" use mac book pros...all the time. Mathematicians, doctors, statisticians, lawyers, architects, photographers, creative designers, visual artists, engineers, finance slobs, journalists....
it's always the video/audio crowd that whinges the most about doing their craft on a laptop. Face it dorks, professional level Audio/Video...is not 'there' for laptops.
Especially you video ppl. you can't compete with other ppl in your field, the one's with 8-core mac pros, using a laptop. stop kidding yourselves and get a real computer.
1)When did BR become the storage medium of choice by any professional?! The only reason you would need/want BR in a profession is if you were actually mastering BR discs and needed to make some to send to manufacturing or other testing. If you need to store 20-30gigs of data, store it on the countless other options that are much more mature and cheaper.
2)BR is not a common format...what do you mean it's common? You mean it's understood by people? Yeah, my dad and friends basically know WHAT BR is...but they don't own any BR titles or equipment. I would argue that a very very low percentage of consumers own it. Again, a dozen reasons why, but DVD is by far still king.
Don't get me wrong, I love BR (I own it) but for the majority of consumers out there (and you can read many articles about this), there's not as much of a reason to go to BR. BR is not like what DVD did for VHS...or what CD did for vinyl/cassette. BR is the technically a higher definition, but all the other selling factors that existed when DVD and CD came on the market (very small, un-eraseable, much tougher, no rewinding, excellent fast forward/skipping/chapter selection, units are very small and thin, etc.) are gone. Now consumers are like "hmmm...all this money for a better picture? Nahhhhh, I'll wait for my total cost of ownership to drop when this thing becomes mainstream and it becomes harder to find/rent/buy dvds." There's nothing else the salesman can pitch...it's pure bits/bytes. There's no "convenience" over dvd.
I want BR to succeed...but I have my doubts....at worst it's going to be a looooong time for BR to become mainstream if you ask me. 2013 or later if you ask me.
Did you read my WHOLE post? It's not a space issue...
"The audio app & the audio project need to be on separate drives for best performance, and besides, audio/video work is HARD on drives... it is easier to format/replace external drives than internal ones."
My major gripe with the newest version of the 15" Macbook Pros from a UK customers perspective is this:
The base model over here has seen a price drop of around £50 ($80 USD) which means for £50 less we get a spec bump but lose the dedicated graphics card.
In the USA this price decrease is $300 which makes the new base model pretty much a new price point and an intermediate MBP. For the same money it used to cost for the entry level MBP in the US you can get the new mid-range MBP complete with dedicated graphics. So realistically you are not really losing anything (except the stupid decision to remove the expansion slot).
Whilst in the UK to get a 'pro' level machine, i.e: one with dedicated graphics it is now going to cost £150 ($240) more than the old base model...
I don't mind paying more for apple hardware than the straight USD to GBP conversion is but I think it is shocking that we have practically had a price increase!
The base model over here has seen a price drop of around £50 ($80 USD) which means for £50 less we get a spec bump but lose the dedicated graphics card.
In the USA this price decrease is $300 which makes the new base model pretty much a new price point and an intermediate MBP. For the same money it used to cost for the entry level MBP in the US you can get the new mid-range MBP complete with dedicated graphics. So realistically you are not really losing anything (except the stupid decision to remove the expansion slot).
Whilst in the UK to get a 'pro' level machine, i.e: one with dedicated graphics it is now going to cost £150 ($240) more than the old base model...
I don't mind paying more for apple hardware than the straight USD to GBP conversion is but I think it is shocking that we have practically had a price increase!
A little observation; the 13" MBP seems to have only one mini jack plug, which can be user selectable as input/output. It's also the only one that is specifically mentioned as supporting the mic on the apple headset.
Did anyone catch if the new 15" MBPs supports the apple headset?
Did anyone catch if the new 15" MBPs supports the apple headset?
Dude I am laughing so hard...this has gotta be the funniest posts I've seen in months. Ripping BR to iPhone. While you're at it,why don't you rip your cds to your My First Sony Tape Recorder:
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-Eric
Well..
Things are pretty simple,ha?
I think Apple is the first victim of "Prize Busters, I'm a pc" ads.
You see, everyone say about how sexy and nice a macbook (pro) looks.
So Apple says:
"Why to bother? Even with crap hardware people will buy my stuff"
I mean, who don't like nice and sexy stuff?
We buy also clothes that way...
drlunaner said:
So, I was completely and utterly right. I wrote this back in February.
All kneel before me
Not really. There was no micurlous improvement in energy storage density in the "17 inch tech" that folks seem to want to attribute to it. The increase in battery capacity comes from making the batteries bigger. You looks the casing walls for the batter and for the compartment that the batter goes into and that leaves slightly more room for bigger battery side with about an equal weight trade-off.
That batteries are not the same size. That is the whole point of dumping the casing around them.
If Apple had phenomally increased energy density in batteries they could make tons of money worldwide off of a ton of applications (cars, power systems , etc.)... why would they limit that to subset of consumer toys?
There was little in what Apple talked about that said their supposed "secret sauce" in chemical encoding increased energy density versus making the batteries last longer (because you've now make a tradeoff of inconvenience because can't be replaced. ) versus them talking overtly about the benfits of dumping the packaging/casing of the batteries.