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USB 3.0 and Faster FireWire in Next Mac Pro, iMac?
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If there are any truth to the rumors of Apple phasing out optical drives completely, they will never offer Blu-Ray. I can understand wanting it for data storage, but why are people so concerned about watching movies on their computers? Am I the only one who still owns a TV?
So once the Mac pros and iMacs get the USB 3 it'll just be a matter of time before the mbps get it too. Nice
I'm looking at a mbp in the next year or so. I can't wait to see some audio creation devices using USB 3
I'm looking at a mbp in the next year or so. I can't wait to see some audio creation devices using USB 3
I'm just glad to see a rumor about the Mac Pro. For a while it was gloomily quiet. It's probably less than two months away too.
You calibrate your screen, as I have done. There is very, very little variance between my onscreen display and final print output. "Supposedly" is the keyword here - don't believe everything the pundits and stupid analysts state as 'fact'.
A graphics professional should be working in a light controlled environment. If the glare is really that much of an issue for you, don't buy one. I'm sat in a studio with 9 27" iMac and there is no glare issue. The human brain is clever enough to focus on the image you're viewing and ignore any tiny amount of reflection. There are matt screen coatings available, just go buy one if you really want to dull your colours and make the screen a PITA to keep clean.
LightPeak may turn out to be the answer...
In what way would be this the answer?!
What LightPeak has got anything to do with the matter? It's not even a format to publish digital media on! It's like claiming that a new type of toaster will solve the problem of internal-combustion engines.
But more to the point - even if it was a portable format to put content on; we live today. It was 8 or 9 years (!) ago that Blu Ray was in the same development stage as Light Peak is now. Have you got 8 years to see, whether Steve Jobs will have some ridiculous response and excuse about LightPeak then?
So no, LightPeak is not a solution. With poor internet speed around the US and the World, there is no alternative to Blu Ray by any means. Even with fast internet, the current alternative is poor sound and 720p. Just as well, you can get a DVD. Do you remember that technology?
I thought that this poster was done with the matter, he/she said it three rants ago.
Besides, an average USB stick cannot hold an average content of a Blu Ray.
I don't think she's ever tried Blu Ray. Has he/she even got a Mac?
I kind of disagree with this statement in some ways. The Mac Pro line is still top of the line in terms of performance, which is why I don't think they need to update them as frequently.
However, I do agree that they are due for a refresh at this point. They are still very, very nice computers.
Will the iphone 4 be able to take advantage of USB 3? I am thinking ipod pin connector in one end and USB 3 connector in the other.
Would it be able to gain the speed advantages?
Would it be able to gain the speed advantages?
Actually, I'd happily exchange any kind of optical drive in the next iMac for the possibility to install a SSD additionally.
That, plus an updated GPU, and the next generation iMac is mine. I'd actually go for a MP, but I'd pay something like 1600€ extra for a display of the same size and quality included in the iMac. Still uncertain whether it's worth that much extra money. Let's have a look at those new desktops, then
Listening to customers.
FWIW, I don't give a toss what comes in this Mac Pro refresh - my 2006 Mac Pro is actually still going strong; it's the first time I've had a computer serve me so well for so long.
Telling the customers what they want is what makes Apple Apple. If you want a company that sits around waiting for people to tell them what they want, stick with Dell or some other manufacturer of POS beige boxes. You don't lead by "listening to the customers", you lead by giving the customers what they didn't even know they wanted until they saw it. "Customers" don't have imagination; "customers" don't have vision. We already have a lot of companies making the cheap knockoffs and the nerd-pleasing ("OH, look - my new phone has 27 USB ports!") crap. We need at least *one* company that's different, and I'm glad that's Apple.
FWIW, I don't give a toss what comes in this Mac Pro refresh - my 2006 Mac Pro is actually still going strong; it's the first time I've had a computer serve me so well for so long.
This, in combination with higher speed internet, would help bring streaming 1080p, with uncompressed sound, closer to reality.
128Gb Thumb drives, although outrageously expensive now, will likely drop in price significantly by this time next year.
Although I'd prefer to have full BD capabilities on the Mac, at least authoring is possible, making storing HD files for playback possible.
Both BD and DVD will be around for a while, no doubt, as they are cost effective storage solutions.
However, full HD streaming is not that far off - with the advent of reasonably priced 2+ TB drives, storage is not that big an issue.
I agree... but first let them catch up with Firewire 800... all quality interfaces and mixers still run on firewire 400... Apogee, Motu, Presonus, Focusrite, digidesign, Metric Halo, Mackie, Allen & Heath, etc.... all FW400. You can plug them into into a FW800 port, as it is backwards compatible, but they run in FW400.
Or (I wonder) if perhaps FW400 is enough to power and/or run all the channels that these devices can run?
cheers!
Bluray sucks as every other optical media. It takes a lot of space inside the computer and it is mechanical.
Internet or distribuition in SD card are better solution.
SDXC can take 2TB and 100+MB/s.
And on a SDHC you can store 64GB and reach i think 8-10MB/s... maybe with some buffering it would be possible. SD takes little space as media and very little space inside the computer. The future are SDXC or better internet streaming.