Actually, one of the new functionalities of FCPx is the ability to tie your Macs together to create your own "Rendering farm". Not sure if their vision is tying together with TB/FW or Ethernet...but I can't imagine the new release of Lion won't allow SOME type of connection between machines...especially for this type of functionality. Pretty exciting stuff, especially for independent companies with low or non-existant production budgets.
This has been addressed. Are you new to Apple? Go check out most ALL cords from Apple...whether it's a display cord...MDP to VGA/DVI/HDMI, et al. Or the iPad connections...HDMI/Camera Connect, etc. The list goes on. Someone mentioned it earlier. Keep your eyes on monoprice.com (I do NOT have any affiliation with them...but those buying cables will truly benefit by bookmarking their site
) Prices from other companies once released (Griffin, etc.) will bring the price down a bit soon enoughAMEN!!! LOL....Most folks the NEED this type of speed will make that money back on a project in 15 minutes. Easily...not to mention, write off it's price on next year's IRS term paper
F/W 800 cables initially were at LEAST this much! I had to find a USB to serial adaptor for a piece of audio gear (Sound processor from BBE) to be able to link to computer for R/T sound EQ'ing last week. YEP! $49...for about as "Legacy" a cable as you can get, no matter how proprietary. Apple is the first to offer the cable. They're going to charge a premium for it. It's not a simple cord to produce...a bit more like ethernet, which isn't cheap itself.Good Lord...seriously? USB3 is NOTHING in comparison Speed-Wise to T/B or Light Peak...or whatever Sony is calling it. Did you see the front page? What Sony is doing with their "Dock" with the Graphics processing increase, etc? USB 3.0, while nice and speedy does NOT compare to 10gb/sec BOTh ways! Again...if you have to question the pricing, you DON'T need the product! Stick with your legacy USB 2.0 and hang tight...my guess is OWC/MacSales will soon be releasing a PCI-Exp Card with USB 3.0 and/or a T/B to USB 3.0 adaptor. There will plenty of fun stuff on the horizon. Intel has now release T/B to the rest of the PC community...as well as the cottage industries for HDD and SSD storage and NAS solutions...as well as audio and video production companies for their peripherals...and I HONESTLY believe in this technology...I think it will be the NEW USB as we move in to this next decade. Fast as hell...decent power provided on board with the copper implementation, outboard video processing, ingestion, R/T audio EQ'ing and frequency analyzation....there are SOOOO many things I could use this for with band and comedian production...if we ever got to running ethernet and/or TB for control, my cord box would drop for well over 600 pounds on casters...to a manageable suitcase of 40lbs or less
I know, I'm dreaming now...but this type of speed is unfathomable for those of you that haven't or aren't using RAID type storage, NAS systems or SSD these days. Truly...our bottleneck is (and hasn't been for sometime) NOT the CPU any longer...as proven by so many tasks on the Mac Book Air. So much of our daily tasks on computers can be made much faster by simply adding solid state storage. Not CPU increase, forget RAM...for MOST tasks (Not all, I realize transcoding video is a different animal), SSD is key. Taken a step forward, with limited internal storage options...the next best thing is external storage and backup. T/B not only provides these options at the fastest speeds EVER...it also opens the door for SOOO many excellent peripherals, no matter what your skill set is.As Sony has jumped on board, I don't see this going the way of F/W. (Not that Sony wasn't one of the primary PC makers that ALSO included F/W, even to the bitter end)...>I think we'll see the same from Dell and HP soon. Mother board manufactures...the big ones, have now been blessed with T/B access. And keep in mind...Intel has YET to support on board USB 3.0 yet. It will come with the next round of Ivy Bridge processors...along with T/B. How sweet will that be? And certainly, IMVHO....well worth waiting on the next Mac Pro for. Ivy Bridge processing...BOTH T/B and USB 3.0 (native to the chipset)...as well as the internal capacity already alotted in the Mac Pro? Would be Very Very Sweet!
I think sometimes we tend to underestimate the thinking in Cupertino. Yes, other manufacturers are implementing USB 3.0...but still in a relatively low yield. Not all of them certainly...and if they do, only 1 or two ports, with the necessary internal "changes" necessary to take advantage of it's speed...IE, again, it has NOT been natively built in to the Intel Chipset...YET!!! It's coming. But if you take a look around....hardly anything, other than a few Western Digital harddrives that Do have USB2/3 capability. No real peripherals for professionals (Apogee, Matrox, Tascam, not even sure if M-Audio has support yet *Just a few I use in my studio) have support yet (I think they are waiting out the USB3/Thunder B shake out myself). I also use Motu gear as well as DBX Driveracks and processors from BBE. The only one I've spoken to (as I'm also trying to put a digital future field system together) that has mentioned one or the other is Motu...they will definitely be looking at the T/B implementation AND the addition or lack thereof on the PC side.
Some of you price complainers need to realize what you're bagging on. Not only the FIRST product to market with BRAND NEW technology...but also an implementation I believe that will initially be relegated to the professional (By pro, I mean people that are making their living on their workstations) market. Both for storage redundancy...ability to move projects around the studio, back up off site...as well as the peripheral market where "latency" is concerned.
That said...I also believe we will see T/B become cheaper and cheaper as the R&D costs are recovered and the licensing prices drop...as well as the pieces/parts to put them together. From there, the skies the limit...as is the market penetration.
How cool would it be if your iPad4 or iPhone 6 has the 30 pin to T/B option vs. USB? How many times have you had to hurry up and wait as your iPhone/iPad/Android had to sync itself? Course this could be a non issue as we are going to cloud sync/store etc.
I do like what Sony is doing with that Dock though...and as someone mentioned earlier....although T/B is a bit slower that direct PCI Express lanes, it's Not that much slower...and if there is the bandwidth to bring out board graphic power to a laptop...how cool would that be? An 11" MBA with the graphic power of a Mac Pro or top of the line PC's GPU....all by pluggin in to a 2 pound dock...when necessary. Otherwise, it's a 2 pound portable computer ready for everyday tasks without the dock
Sorry...I truly didn't mean to go on so long...but there are SO many possibilities with this new technology...it continues to boggle my mind that the first 30 or 40 posts are people (mainly) complaining about both the price of the cable and the storage system...where NEITHER is out of the realm of cost across the board for NAS storage systems for high end facilities. Hell...I work with a couple of post houses that would pay for that rig in less than 3 hours of work!!! And they've got 6 workstations going at any given time...10-12 hours a day!!! What I think some of you fail to realize is that people DO make money with computers...and TIME is MONEY!!! Speed creates Time which creates MORE MONEY!!! Bottom line. The initial investment is incredibly cheap if you've sped up your production, even by a meager 5-10%!!! Over time, this adds up to huge money!!!
Sorry...Rant over. I'll shut up now
J
