Shake 3.5 at NAB?

[MacRAND]

MacBUNDLE: Shake/Xserve/XserveRAID/RenderKIT

MacRand- there isn't anything stopping anybody from Clustering X-serves for use as a render farm.
I thought that all the hardware and software is here.

Eniregnat, you are correct.
But there is no bundle being marketed making it user friendly, plug & play.

Think of it this way,
Pioneer made a 2x DVD/CD-R Drive, but didn't sell many - before
Apple bundled it -

• named it the SuperDrive
  installed them in 1+GB dual PowerMacs (making Pioneer's DVD burner combo instantly popular)
  introduced iMovie/FCP & iDVD/DVD StudioPro software to take full advantage of an internal DVD burner, then
  offered reasonably priced blank 4.7 GB DVD discs

• 2x DVD-R discs, which had been selling for at least $25 each,
  Apple began selling their own brand at less than $10 each,
  eventually driving the price down below $2 each,
  which are now upgraded in disc speed (along with faster SuperDrives) to burn
  4x DVD-R discs holding the price at under $2 each, and
  8x DVD-R discs will soon be released by Apple at under $4 each (5 for $19.99) all
  timed for release with the next

• G5 PowerMacs,
  which will soon include faster SuperMacs burning DVD discs at
  8x DVD/CD±R/RW now, followed by {12x won't count for anything}
  16x by the end of 2004

creating an iLife package that has rocked the industry.

Burning video discs will change dramatically again when
50 GB Blu-ray discs & drives finally become available to the consumer market.

Apple can conceptualize, package and market a virtual
SuperMac, as in SuperComputer (scaled down version of VT's BigMac)
marketing a Plug & Play bundle to meet the high-end
"render needs" of all those NLE Editors (NAB members) who
constantly complain about their need for speed in a PowerMac for
NLE or Pixar type design requirements.

APPLE can then demonstrate:

• Here is your SuperMac,
  How much rendering power do you need?

with the only limitation being cost.
How much money do you have?

• Entry level SuperMac = $4,300

• High level SuperMac = $4.3-million for a world-class SuperComputer

It is the perfect open-ended product bundle taken from
conceptualization to reality using Apple's turnkey design of off-the-shelf
Mac hardware enhanced by Apple software
packaged to be user friendly.

Are you listening Apple?

 

[Eniregnat]

There are way too many Trademarks to search through here. Apple's Trademarks 2004. If somebody can find one that reads/sounds like a Pro suite post it.

Perhaps they will do a bundle, but I doubt it. As a special yes, but not as a permanent suite. (This almost insures that it will happen.)

As far a turnkey systems. Apple has deals worked out with resellers to provide just this. I haven’t read about turnkey nodes or farms yet, but I bet it will come soon. Apple makes special deals with some resellers, providing them with better pricing and benefits. I can't find the reseller now, but there was one at a local film festival that offered an additional $300 off for a number of Apple based turnkey systems. The reduction was an incentive they worked out with Apple, at least that's what the guy said.

 

[Parikh1234]

I want my quad 3.0 ghz G5's at nab... not some.. shaking thing

just kidding.......

acually not kidding but......

if they are giving out the shaking thing for free ill take it. But for 5 grand, it better shake up an earthquake.

 

[BornAgainMac]

That is strange

I thought Apple only focuses on iPods and music. They are done with Final Cut Pro, Shake, powerbooks, and hypercard, etc...

 

[MacFan25]

If there is already some documents on Apple's website, then I'm sure Shake 3.5 will be released at NAB. But, like I said in another thread, I don't think we'll see hardware updates here.

But, Apple's been known to surprise us before...

 

[~Shard~]

I guess this means no PowerMac speed bumps, no G5 PowerBooks, no G5 iMacs... not that it's surprising. After all this is a "media" event, and hardware updates just don't seem to fit - unless Jobs comes out and says, "Here's the new Shake 3.5 - and here's a nice new 2.4 GHz G5 PowerMac to run it on!"

Hmm, so, barring the good old "next Tuesday" non-events, when IS the next big event that Apple might make major announcements at? WWDC? Even if the PMs are bumped up significantly from 2 GHz to 3 GHz, waiting an entire year with no real upgrades to the line, especially when it's the Pro line, just doesn't seem right...

 

[wuntrikpony]

I thought Apple only focuses on iPods and music. They are done with Final Cut Pro, Shake, powerbooks, and hypercard, etc...

LOL! hypercard and Final Cut Pro in the same sentence...hahaha

 

[jared_kipe]

What ever happened to people trying to do at least a basic search to learn about something before asking for help in a forum? A google search for Irix comes up with SGI for the first link, doesn't get much easier than that.....

Easy there big guy. My original post was merely meant to poke a little fun at the lack of important news these days. Obviously there was nothing important, or more important as it were, about what Irix was. Ok, so it wasn't the best joke to date, but give me another chance, I've got some potential.

By the way, I wouldn't want to say that you guys take these boards too seriously, but... bringing up off topic things around here is like showing your PETA card to Dennis Leary. Better?

 

[evil_santa]

In response to Sonofhaig and to add to Laslo Panaflex.
As far as finding a copy to mess around with. Try film festivals, film production organizations, Apple stores, or your local public access TV studio. The latter will likely make you take a class, but it will gain you access to their tools.

Shake (Apple Pro Training S.) by Marco Paolini has a 30 day demo disk with it.

Shake express would be good.

Have apple ever announced hardware at NAB?

 

[MacRAND]

Steve: Folks, this being Butterfly Swarm Tuesday in Montana, I'd like to announce...

Has Apple ever announced hardware at NAB?

Irrelevant!
However, a software upgrade announcement would be more probable.

If Apple has a warehouse full of upgraded previously unreleased computers ready for sale & shipping, an event as minor as the birthday of the Governor of California's wife's LAPDOG would present ample opportunity and excuse for an OFFICIAL Apple hardware release announcement.

In fact, if the day of the week is TUESDAY - that by itself is more than enough.

When Apple is ready with new product, then anytime is right.
True, Uncle Steve does love to surprise and put on a show before a room full of Mac loving fans.

 

[Mudbug]

There are way too many Trademarks to search through here. Apple's Trademarks 2004. If somebody can find one that reads/sounds like a Pro suite post it.

couple of questions from that list:

HotSauce TM - application program
E-Box TM - application program
A/ROSE TM - application program
MacWorkStation TM - application program
MPW - application program
SANE® - application program
Tremor - application program (if this is new, this could work name-wise as a shake derivative)

these are just the ones that caught my eye - I'm sure 99% if not all of them are old and I just don't remember them, but who knows. Anyone care to elaborate on them?

 

[reorx]

if they are giving out the shaking thing for free ill take it. But for 5 grand, it better shake up an earthquake.

Good sofware for small markets costs money. Bigger than normal money, which is absolutely a good thing, otherwise software developers who write awesome applications would have no jobs. All free software == all unemployed software developers.

If it makes your business lots of money, you will pay lots of money for it. Simple as that...

 

[wuntrikpony]

if they are giving out the shaking thing for free ill take it. But for 5 grand, it better shake up an earthquake.

You obviously have no idea what shake is for. It is a program for very high end post production houses. It is not meant for consumers. And if you knew anything about it you would know that it really could shake a damn earthquake. This program is a steal for 5k.

 

[awulf]

couple of questions from that list:

HotSauce TM - application program
E-Box TM - application program
A/ROSE TM - application program
MacWorkStation TM - application program
MPW - application program
SANE® - application program
Tremor - application program (if this is new, this could work name-wise as a shake derivative)

these are just the ones that caught my eye - I'm sure 99% if not all of them are old and I just don't remember them, but who knows. Anyone care to elaborate on them?

A/ROSE, isn't that a networking system extension of some sort in System 7?

 

[Quobobo]

couple of questions from that list:
Tremor - application program (if this is new, this could work name-wise as a shake derivative)

these are just the ones that caught my eye - I'm sure 99% if not all of them are old and I just don't remember them, but who knows. Anyone care to elaborate on them?

Tremor was made by Nothing Real (makers of Shake) before Apple bought them, it's likely that they just inherited the trademark from Nothing Real. More info here.

 

[SpaceMagic]

the link doesn't work anymore... Apple's spies are out