Microsoft Releases Second 'Laptop Hunters' Commercial

[charlituna]

You can author, proof, and burn, and view a Blu-ray disc on a PC; you can't on Mac OS.

if that is your one requirement sure Apple's suck

but some folks use more than one 'requirement' that is wanted by perhaps 5% of users to judge value.

 

[xbjllb]

That said, the lack of Blu-ray in Macs is hardly the death sentence for Apple that you claim it to be. And your constant repeating of this diatribe is starting to get a bit silly. You seem to be one of the very few on the board vocal about Blu-ray support, which doesn't seem to indicate a strong market demand. Regardless of what Microsoft's laptop ads say.

Never mind. Full Blu-ray support is around the corner, I just didn't get the memo. In the brand new FCS upgrade, Compressor 3.5 authors Blu-ray discs quite nicely for my immediate needs, and more support is forthcoming throughout the upgrade and OS.

Furthermore, the Logic upgrade completely destroys Pro Tools superiority with several incredible features pro users have been begging for for years.

Full Blu-ray support possibly by this Christmas, certainly by next, and long before 2012. Apple WILL get Sony to lower the license fees, if they haven't already. It behooves Sony to have a Blu-ray player/burner in every Mac to insure the longevity of the platform.

Apple will survive, live long, and prosper if the US can keep itself together; my work here is done until the next technological impasse (if there is one).

 

[LagunaSol]

Apple will survive, live long, and prosper if the US can keep itself together; my work here is done until the next technological impasse (if there is one).

Nice to see Apple hasn't completely abandoned its pro content creator customers after all.

 

[DMann]

Never mind. Full Blu-ray support is around the corner, I just didn't get the memo. In the brand new FCS upgrade, Compressor 3.5 authors Blu-ray discs quite nicely for my immediate needs, and more support is forthcoming throughout the upgrade and OS.

Furthermore, the Logic upgrade completely destroys Pro Tools superiority with several incredible features pro users have been begging for for years.

Full Blu-ray support possibly by this Christmas, certainly by next, and long before 2012. Apple WILL get Sony to lower the license fees, if they haven't already. It behooves Sony to have a Blu-ray player/burner in every Mac to insure the longevity of the platform.

Apple will survive, live long, and prosper if the US can keep itself together; my work here is done until the next technological impasse (if there is one).

Logic Studio's Flex Tool, Flex Speed, VariSpeed, Audio Quantize, Speed Fade, Selective Track Import, Bounce-in-Place, and Live Production Tools and Gear, all leave ProTools behind, elevating sound recording/mixing/production to an entirely new level. Logic Studio, alone, has evolved into a game changer, and is cost effective beyond comparison. FCS emerges dramatically as well - Two thumbs up, way up high!!

 

[k2spitfire88]

This "blu-ray guy" is the visible tip of a very angry and very fed up pro content creator iceberg. Most of the others have given up on Apple and quit griping and the other half have left the platform. I'm looking at HP workstations myself, and I buy top of the line every three years fully maxxed out.

If Apple thinks the numbers of iCrap iNewbies coming to the platform can make up for the highend who spend the most money (they need at least 1,000 to 1) then good luck outwaiting the Blu-Ray iceberg to the unsinkable Titanic.

Honestly, do you make up this stuff? No figures to back it up, it sounds like bull to me, but, then again, you know what they say. Never let the facts get in the way of your argument...

 

[macintoshtoffy]

if that is your one requirement sure Apple's suck

but some folks use more than one 'requirement' that is wanted by perhaps 5% of users to judge value.

What I find funny are those who ignore my previous post:

Nothing stopping you from purchasing an external bluray drive, a copy of toast + BD Plugin and some media tools from Apple. You choose not to because it would kill your irrational Apple hating diatribes. Perish thought of one less post on Macrumors.

If BD burning is oh-so important, then buy it separately, attach it to your USB or Firewire port, purchase a copy of Toast + BD Plugin - and voila, problem solved.

As for BD Playback - how many end users do you see playing back BD on their computers? most people I know would sooner use the BD device hooked up to their 50 inch wide screen rather than squinting at a laptop or a desktop monitor.