In 2012 there is only one producer who is bold enough to come out with new laptop model without touch-screen. And still it is leading edge.
MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
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Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#522Earlier quoted context omitted.
The real question is why would you want to be valuable to someone who uses Exchange and Sharepoint ;-)
Uuhm... Not to be overly flippant but me, my wife and my two daughters as well as my bootstrapped startup are supported by my work for a multinational financial organization. The technologies you mention essentially run this organization from an information delivery aspect.
I understand and I'm sorry if I came across as insensitive - I was half-joking. My own experience with these technologies is not favorable. Every year or so the company I work for experiences a day long mail outage. My wife has lost about a month of work because Sharepoint died and no backup could bring it back to life. And yes, both installs are maintained by people with plenty MC* certifications and, in both cases, the reasons for using the software were not tech-driven.
I hope you have better experiences.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#523Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you might be missing the point... Even customization is becoming easier. Consider the ease of jail breaking iOS vs rooting an Android device along wth the push button tweakability that is Cydia and you quickly realize that even the tinkerer/customiser world is headed for liberation from complexity. The world of code and hackers and the purity of possibility will always be there but bringing greater Technologi…
The ease of jail breaking iOS? I bought an iPad 2 with iOS 5, and There was a period of about 6 months when it could not be jail broken.
How many clicks did it require to jailbreak that device once Absinthe came out?
I see your point but that is what I was referring to.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#524Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uuhm... Not to be overly flippant but me, my wife and my two daughters as well as my bootstrapped startup are supported by my work for a multinational financial organization. The technologies you mention essentially run this organization from an information delivery aspect.
I understand and I'm sorry if I came across as insensitive - I was half-joking. My own experience with these technologies is not favorable. Every year or so the company I work for experiences a day long mail outage. My wife has lost about a month of work because Sharepoint died and no backup could bring it back to life. And yes, both installs are maintained by people with plenty MC* certifications and, in both cases,…
It does not follow that since no workable backup strategy was in place that Sharepoint is rubbish.
Look: I'm not singing the praises of these softwares, it's big clunky enterprise stuff and it is boooring... None the less: it's running some pretty important processes that combined run a large portion of the worlds I.T.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#525Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ease of jail breaking iOS? I bought an iPad 2 with iOS 5, and There was a period of about 6 months when it could not be jail broken.
How many clicks did it require to jailbreak that device once Absinthe came out? I see your point but that is what I was referring to.
Certainly there are periods of time when it is possible to jailbreak a device over the internet(!!), times when it is possible locally, and times when it it, for months, not possible at all.
My point (poorly made perhaps) is that I have heard people say, "Oh, don't worry about Apple's walled garden, anyone with technical knowledge can be out of it as soon as they want, with jailbreaking". However, there are clearly long periods of time when that isn't true.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#526Perhaps I'm the only one, but I'm really waiting and praying for a new Mac Pro system and 30" Retina displays. Its been since 2010 for an update on the Mac Pro. Currently, I can't fathom why anyone would purchase them given the price. But the laptops have never felt capable enough for fulltime use for HD video editing (or 2K or 4K...) Unless there's a "just one more thing" with these, it seems that the Mac Pro appear…
I know a dude who's done fulltime HD video editing with a MacBook Pro for years. Not 2K or 4K though. Out of curiosity, have you tried editing video with a top-of-the-line MBP and been frustrated? For special effects/render-heavy stuff I know you can never have enough cycles, but for typical editing I'd be surprised to hear that recent laptops cause much of a bottleneck.
Currently here are my bottlenecks in HD editing on my mid 2011 MBP (which I have a LaCie Firewire 800 raid 1 hooked to).
1- The transcode from h.264 (what my D7000 outputs) to Prores 2- Transitions, overlays and basic comp'ing effects 3- Export from FCP 4- Transcoding from Prores to h.264 again
The editing itself, no, it isn't that bad really anymore. On my old Macbook Pro (2009 model?) it was pretty hard still. Yet, everything surrounding the render is just terrible. I feel that with a 16/32 core Mac Pro, 64GB+ of RAM that that many of these problems would go away. I saw where someone had built a Hackintosh the other day that was 16/32 cores and 128GB RAM... which is very tempting currently.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#527Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're underestimating how much of an obstacle a traditional filesystem is to most people. The cloud integration and appification that seems so restricting to you is sweet, sweet relief for a great deal of people. By catering to them, Apple doesn't take anything away from you; though they do eventually entrap you as well with all that shiny and convenience, which I can understand being resentful about. It's a…
No, they're not right about it. I completely agree with you that making the computing experience simpler, more like poking buttons on a high-end blender, is what most consumers need. Satisfying what most consumers need is most likely what the companies need. The companies have as much right to want what's best for themselves as I do. They're not doing anything wrong, IMO. That does not automatically make their design…
>I am thinking, though, that as the two major personal computer platforms become more closed, it gradually opens a market for some savvy company to go in the opposite direction: targeting those who want more customization, not less, without sacrificing hardware quality.
All 10 of them? Maybe VA Linux has a market after all.
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#528Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you need three Thunderbolt ports? The devices chain pretty well, if you have an external monitor for example it will also have a Thunderbolt port that other devices can be plugged into. Not needing another adapter to use HDMI is great. You already need one for Ethernet and FireWire.
I don't know: can I use a thunderbolt port to chain monitors? About the dongles: in my use I usually take the laptop to the same places all the time, so I just buy the right cable (here it would be a thunderbolt -> hdmi cable i guess). If I go to random places where I need to hook up to a monitor I won't know whether they'll have a hdmi cable just as much as I don't know if they'll have a thunderbolt cable, so I need…
> can I use a thunderbolt port to chain monitors
Yes.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#529Earlier quoted context omitted.
The companies are using this paradigm shift as an excuse to lock us in a box, they are not locking us in a box because the tech or the experience is only available if they do so. Yes. It's clear that Apple considers the relative openness of Macs a defect which they're only keeping around for backwards compatibility. unless they manage to fully legislate their locked boxes as the only option... which they are trying t…
>It's clear that Apple considers the relative openness of Macs a defect which they're only keeping around for backwards compatibility. This is not remotely clear. Do you really think Apple wants the App store to dry up because they are the only people left who can develop for it? The Apps make the app store and they know this.
False dilemma; that is not the other alternative. The other alternative is that only a certain set of people bother to purchase the license to create apps, mostly for professional reasons, and plenty of apps are still created. But not by curious teenagers who want to learn about how things work.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#530Perhaps I'm the only one, but I'm really waiting and praying for a new Mac Pro system and 30" Retina displays. Its been since 2010 for an update on the Mac Pro. Currently, I can't fathom why anyone would purchase them given the price. But the laptops have never felt capable enough for fulltime use for HD video editing (or 2K or 4K...) Unless there's a "just one more thing" with these, it seems that the Mac Pro appear…
The Mac Pro is dead. Many audio and video guys I know have already switched to PC or built / bought a Hackintosh.
You probably not know that many pro audio and video guys then...