Affirmed
Apr 13, 04:11 PM
I do feel that for myself as an editor, if i were to take the time to relearn the latest version Avid, I still would not be able to do as much as quickly, and yes as good looking of an end product as i could with Final Cut X.
Saying that you can work faster on a product that hasn't even been released vrs. a product you haven't used at all, is rather pointless.
Saying that you can work faster on a product that hasn't even been released vrs. a product you haven't used at all, is rather pointless.
cooknwitha
Sep 12, 10:03 AM
Okay, I think we've lost it.
Vaughan should declare just to give the Aussies a false sense of security. I want to see some big hitting!!!
Vaughan should declare just to give the Aussies a false sense of security. I want to see some big hitting!!!
neildmitchell
Sep 9, 05:44 PM
OSX 10.5 Leopard
http://www.scalespace.org/2003/images/leopard%20man%20of%20skye.jpg
No piercing this time, though. But chiseled teeth.
Hes another cool one, He is an ex Navy or amry guy, fully retired and lives in a small town, no one gives him sh##, they all respect him as a member of the twon. (typing sucks one handed with a shot glass full of salt water to the head)
http://www.scalespace.org/2003/images/leopard%20man%20of%20skye.jpg
No piercing this time, though. But chiseled teeth.
Hes another cool one, He is an ex Navy or amry guy, fully retired and lives in a small town, no one gives him sh##, they all respect him as a member of the twon. (typing sucks one handed with a shot glass full of salt water to the head)
nOw2
Apr 12, 07:06 AM
I cannot add much to that already said, but:
� 30TB RAID (Redundancy important for backup purposes)
No - redundancy provides availability, not backup. If it is important data, budget for a 30TB backup solution.
� 30TB RAID (Redundancy important for backup purposes)
No - redundancy provides availability, not backup. If it is important data, budget for a 30TB backup solution.
JonD
Oct 15, 02:06 AM
Princetonians, in my experience, are fratboys, prudes, and associated squares--by far the worst of the Ivies. Not a creative bone in the entire student body. They wouldn't know Macintosh if it bit them in their collective beige butt.
So tell me, how on earth is this good news? Unimaginative folk like these don't belong on our platform. Much better to celebrate the longstanding prevalence of Macs on progressive, independent-minded, and artistic campuses such as Brown and Columbia. But Princeton? Give me a break.
Ouch, somebody is jealous. Spend less time at TI and Cottage next time you visit, please.
So tell me, how on earth is this good news? Unimaginative folk like these don't belong on our platform. Much better to celebrate the longstanding prevalence of Macs on progressive, independent-minded, and artistic campuses such as Brown and Columbia. But Princeton? Give me a break.
Ouch, somebody is jealous. Spend less time at TI and Cottage next time you visit, please.
baryon
Apr 12, 07:10 AM
I don't think the iPad 2 was a "half-upgrade". The iPad 2 was completely redesigned, much much slimmer, a lot lighter, two cameras, much faster... I don't think an update soon, this fall, would be so important. This is a full update and I expect the iPad to have a regular release cycle of about a year.
ToddW
Sep 12, 12:26 PM
itunes 7 looks like a promising upgrade. I like how each type of media will have its own library. syncing with the ipod should be better now.
SMM
Oct 25, 09:09 PM
It's good that you apologized before giving us all this misinformation!
Apple in fact offers some of the CHEAPEST rackmount servers. That's why they were used for the Virginia Tech cluster remember!!
Go to Dell's page, I just customized one of their PowerEdge 2950's to be EXACTLY the same as the Xserve (except for the OS) and here's the diff:
Dell PowerEdge 2950
$6,749.00 - $1000 because it's over $5000
so... $5749 (just the fact that they can take $1000 off if you're spending over $5000 shows how much extra they are charging customers!)
Dual Core Intel� Xeon�, 4MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB
Operating System Windows Server� 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition,Includes 5 CALs
Additional Processor
Dual Core Intel� Xeon� 5160, 4MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 1333MHZ FSB
Memory
1GB 533MHz (4x256MB), Single Ranked DIMMs
Riser Card Riser with 3 PCIe Slots
Primary Hard Drive
80GB, SATA, 3.5-inch, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive
Primary Controller
PERC 5/i, x4 Backplane, Integrated Controller Card
Apple Xserve
$4,798.00
Two 64-bit 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors
1.33GHz frontside bus and 4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM)
80GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive1
Built-in ATI Radeon X1300 graphics with 64MB RAM
Mac OS X Server 10.4 Unlimited-Client Edition
So go back to your mummy and cry! At a fraction of the price the Xserve is actually a better machine because I could not get 667Mhz DDR2 for the Dell! The Dell also has no graphics card!
This is not including the fact that Apple gives substantial discounts if you order a stack of these with a RAID!
So when you say 'Dells'... be very specific!!!
Rackmount Dells with Woodcrest Xeons (just like the Xserve) are a LOT more expensive than just some Dell server that is apparently 1/5 of the price of the Xserve.
It is a MYTH that Dell is cheap! Stack them side-to-side with Apple on any level and their machines are generally either the same price or more expensive than Apple's.
Our company was buying Dell servers when I came to work there. Between 2002 and we replaced 2 motherboards and FOUR backplanes. If you have never had a backplane failure, it is ugly. The SCSI controller cards plug into it. When it goes, your data looks like a bunch of smiley faces looking back at you. Dell was very quick to replace our failed hardware, and even faster to apologize. We only have one of the original 13 Dell servers left. I will not buy another. Add that to your TOC.
Apple in fact offers some of the CHEAPEST rackmount servers. That's why they were used for the Virginia Tech cluster remember!!
Go to Dell's page, I just customized one of their PowerEdge 2950's to be EXACTLY the same as the Xserve (except for the OS) and here's the diff:
Dell PowerEdge 2950
$6,749.00 - $1000 because it's over $5000
so... $5749 (just the fact that they can take $1000 off if you're spending over $5000 shows how much extra they are charging customers!)
Dual Core Intel� Xeon�, 4MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB
Operating System Windows Server� 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition,Includes 5 CALs
Additional Processor
Dual Core Intel� Xeon� 5160, 4MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 1333MHZ FSB
Memory
1GB 533MHz (4x256MB), Single Ranked DIMMs
Riser Card Riser with 3 PCIe Slots
Primary Hard Drive
80GB, SATA, 3.5-inch, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive
Primary Controller
PERC 5/i, x4 Backplane, Integrated Controller Card
Apple Xserve
$4,798.00
Two 64-bit 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors
1.33GHz frontside bus and 4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM)
80GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive1
Built-in ATI Radeon X1300 graphics with 64MB RAM
Mac OS X Server 10.4 Unlimited-Client Edition
So go back to your mummy and cry! At a fraction of the price the Xserve is actually a better machine because I could not get 667Mhz DDR2 for the Dell! The Dell also has no graphics card!
This is not including the fact that Apple gives substantial discounts if you order a stack of these with a RAID!
So when you say 'Dells'... be very specific!!!
Rackmount Dells with Woodcrest Xeons (just like the Xserve) are a LOT more expensive than just some Dell server that is apparently 1/5 of the price of the Xserve.
It is a MYTH that Dell is cheap! Stack them side-to-side with Apple on any level and their machines are generally either the same price or more expensive than Apple's.
Our company was buying Dell servers when I came to work there. Between 2002 and we replaced 2 motherboards and FOUR backplanes. If you have never had a backplane failure, it is ugly. The SCSI controller cards plug into it. When it goes, your data looks like a bunch of smiley faces looking back at you. Dell was very quick to replace our failed hardware, and even faster to apologize. We only have one of the original 13 Dell servers left. I will not buy another. Add that to your TOC.
hotrock3
Apr 11, 04:24 AM
It differs. I had one of the last white G3 iBooks, I think it was 800 MHz.
This was good looking (a transparent layer on the white shell) IMHO and while it scratched easily it lasted very long and I think the case was very durable. Ok, many of them had faulty logic boards, but that is a different story...
Christian
I forgot about the iBooks (slightly before my laptop buying days). Those were pretty solid feeling. Only down side to that design was all the work you had to do to change the hard drive.
This was good looking (a transparent layer on the white shell) IMHO and while it scratched easily it lasted very long and I think the case was very durable. Ok, many of them had faulty logic boards, but that is a different story...
Christian
I forgot about the iBooks (slightly before my laptop buying days). Those were pretty solid feeling. Only down side to that design was all the work you had to do to change the hard drive.
Helmigurt
Apr 11, 04:48 PM
They did this with the Nintendo DSi back in 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QSclrIdlE&feature=player_embedded
The game is available in the DSi Ware Store (called Looksley's Line Up). It�s quite funny because the changing of the perspective will reveal the solutions to each diorama and the effect is done quite well.
Back then when Nintendo announced that their next iteration would feature 3d I just thought that they would implement this form of "pseudo" 3d in every game. The problem in real life: You only get the 3d effect when you move your head or your device - So it�s the totally opposite concept of the stereoscopic screens like in the 3ds or some new android phones where you can only see the effect when you look straight on the device! You have to experience both - Funny thing: You can download the DSi game on the 3DS and play it there and afterwards some 3DS 3d game to really get the idea how the two techniques behave in real life. Obviously both have their advantages!
What would be impressive is some combination of the two: "Real" 3D imaging like on the 3ds combined with headtracking..
EDIT: Some of the problems with Jonny Lees awesome concepts: You can only do it alone, the effect doesn�t work if more people are staring at the tv, and it isn�t possible with movies it�s only possible with real time rendered objects! As you can see the stadium at the end is totally flat, as opposed to how the stadium would look like with glasses and shot with a 3d camera.
But after getting my 3ds last week (together with PES 2011) I have to conclude that the 3d of the 3ds is better and more impressive even though my eyes start to hurt after playing for an hour or so..
Because they achieved this game with the DSi (133 Mhz ARM) I don�t think that it taxes the cpu very much..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QSclrIdlE&feature=player_embedded
The game is available in the DSi Ware Store (called Looksley's Line Up). It�s quite funny because the changing of the perspective will reveal the solutions to each diorama and the effect is done quite well.
Back then when Nintendo announced that their next iteration would feature 3d I just thought that they would implement this form of "pseudo" 3d in every game. The problem in real life: You only get the 3d effect when you move your head or your device - So it�s the totally opposite concept of the stereoscopic screens like in the 3ds or some new android phones where you can only see the effect when you look straight on the device! You have to experience both - Funny thing: You can download the DSi game on the 3DS and play it there and afterwards some 3DS 3d game to really get the idea how the two techniques behave in real life. Obviously both have their advantages!
What would be impressive is some combination of the two: "Real" 3D imaging like on the 3ds combined with headtracking..
EDIT: Some of the problems with Jonny Lees awesome concepts: You can only do it alone, the effect doesn�t work if more people are staring at the tv, and it isn�t possible with movies it�s only possible with real time rendered objects! As you can see the stadium at the end is totally flat, as opposed to how the stadium would look like with glasses and shot with a 3d camera.
But after getting my 3ds last week (together with PES 2011) I have to conclude that the 3d of the 3ds is better and more impressive even though my eyes start to hurt after playing for an hour or so..
Because they achieved this game with the DSi (133 Mhz ARM) I don�t think that it taxes the cpu very much..
kresh
Nov 2, 11:17 PM
And if they don't provide local numbers, what are they giving you then, Paleolithic phone numbers???? I know several people with T-Mobile with a local number.
You mentioned that you are in North Carolina, which the reason why they don't have coverage there is because SunCom is sort of their "counterpart" if you will. After all, SunCom gets a lot of phones only T-Mobile gets, such as the Sidekick/hiptop.
hehe Paleolithic :)
You know several people in North Carolina with local numbers?
Yes SunCom has an agreement with T-Mobile. SunCom also has an agreement with Cingular, actually when Cingular bought AT&T, Cingular had to divest themselves from alot of markets in North Carolina and these customers were turned over to SunCom. SunCom promptly required every ex-Cingular customer to resign their contracts and purchase new phones. It was a huge stink, all over the news for weeks.
But the agreement would not help in this situation. Since T-Mobile does not have local numbers here, one would have to go with SunCom as there are no local numbers for T-Mobile. In our area Cingular actually leases their block of numbers from Sprint.
Any company you decide to have cellular service with has to offer local numbers in order to use them. US Cellular is similar as they only offer local numbers for the very western part of the state.
The absolute best way to see where the towers are that your cellular provider owns (thus provides local numbers for) is to look at the coverage map for their prepaid service. Most providers only allow the use of prepaid phones on their "owned" networks and charge you for use on other networks.
I worked for Alltel for 3 years and am currently the Market Director for another national CDMA carrier. In my 15 years in the cellular industry, it constantly amazes me that there is cellular service in the US at all. The spectrum (A side and B side radio frequencies) ownership is so fragmented across the US that it is almost impossible to know who owns what, where!
You mentioned that you are in North Carolina, which the reason why they don't have coverage there is because SunCom is sort of their "counterpart" if you will. After all, SunCom gets a lot of phones only T-Mobile gets, such as the Sidekick/hiptop.
hehe Paleolithic :)
You know several people in North Carolina with local numbers?
Yes SunCom has an agreement with T-Mobile. SunCom also has an agreement with Cingular, actually when Cingular bought AT&T, Cingular had to divest themselves from alot of markets in North Carolina and these customers were turned over to SunCom. SunCom promptly required every ex-Cingular customer to resign their contracts and purchase new phones. It was a huge stink, all over the news for weeks.
But the agreement would not help in this situation. Since T-Mobile does not have local numbers here, one would have to go with SunCom as there are no local numbers for T-Mobile. In our area Cingular actually leases their block of numbers from Sprint.
Any company you decide to have cellular service with has to offer local numbers in order to use them. US Cellular is similar as they only offer local numbers for the very western part of the state.
The absolute best way to see where the towers are that your cellular provider owns (thus provides local numbers for) is to look at the coverage map for their prepaid service. Most providers only allow the use of prepaid phones on their "owned" networks and charge you for use on other networks.
I worked for Alltel for 3 years and am currently the Market Director for another national CDMA carrier. In my 15 years in the cellular industry, it constantly amazes me that there is cellular service in the US at all. The spectrum (A side and B side radio frequencies) ownership is so fragmented across the US that it is almost impossible to know who owns what, where!
jason2811
Apr 21, 06:51 PM
I don't really get the point of this. Most people (obviously not all) have music collections smaller than 16GB and 32GB. What purpose does it serve to keep this music in a cloud rather than on the device? To top it off, you can only access when you have data service.
peharri
Aug 2, 03:02 PM
Apple's never shown any signs of being keen on Virtual Desktops so I'm not sure where that's coming from, especially as the "Hide/show" feature of NEXTSTEP that ended up in OS X is, arguably, slightly more useful anyway.
If they do have it, I hope it's like the Amiga's screens, with desktops opening and closing automatically rather than being permanently open. They need to be self-managing, and designed to make computing easier to understand. Traditional "multiple desktops" are a powerful feature, but I don't think they aid understandability.
If they do have it, I hope it's like the Amiga's screens, with desktops opening and closing automatically rather than being permanently open. They need to be self-managing, and designed to make computing easier to understand. Traditional "multiple desktops" are a powerful feature, but I don't think they aid understandability.
takao
Apr 5, 08:09 AM
Biggest problem with Veloster: it needs a more powerful engine. Maybe Hyundai will see it fit to install the 173 bhp 2.4-liter I-4 found on the current Kia Forte, which would give the Veloster a needed performance boost. :)
perhaps down the line for the US market, for the european market a NA I4 2.4 liter engine with 173hp is just going to gather dust in the showrooms
140hp will be fine for the launch looking at the competition: the cr-z is 136 hp hybrid only, the megane ranges from 110 to 180 and the scirocco from 120 to 210 (that is a 2.0 turbo petrol) including diesel options
and those hardly selling great at the moment: don't make it worse with an unsellable engine
perhaps down the line for the US market, for the european market a NA I4 2.4 liter engine with 173hp is just going to gather dust in the showrooms
140hp will be fine for the launch looking at the competition: the cr-z is 136 hp hybrid only, the megane ranges from 110 to 180 and the scirocco from 120 to 210 (that is a 2.0 turbo petrol) including diesel options
and those hardly selling great at the moment: don't make it worse with an unsellable engine
Andrew D.
Apr 18, 10:39 PM
Yeah, if iLife is released after Leopard is.. then they should just call i iLife '08.. good riddens.
maclaptop
Apr 17, 11:31 AM
Lte... Lte... Lte.
Apple is playing the cards right... the consumers will be fooled, and purchase the white iPhone... all while not realizing that Apple has made a strategic business decision to look towards LTE, and wait for the next big release of the iPhone with 4G from Verizon & AT&T.
Apple is waiting on AT&T... been trying to tell you guys in other posts.
The iPhone 4 is one of Apple's biggest money producing products to date - Glass on the front & back ehhh...
Think people.
Apple has done it again. Maxed profits & cut margins, all while gaining momentum with the consumer.
They make products that sell(max profits), instead of making products for the user like we remember Apple. Not one Apple product get's overstocked... Not ONE!
Pandering to Apple only proves to them, people will settle for anything.
Apple is playing the cards right... the consumers will be fooled, and purchase the white iPhone... all while not realizing that Apple has made a strategic business decision to look towards LTE, and wait for the next big release of the iPhone with 4G from Verizon & AT&T.
Apple is waiting on AT&T... been trying to tell you guys in other posts.
The iPhone 4 is one of Apple's biggest money producing products to date - Glass on the front & back ehhh...
Think people.
Apple has done it again. Maxed profits & cut margins, all while gaining momentum with the consumer.
They make products that sell(max profits), instead of making products for the user like we remember Apple. Not one Apple product get's overstocked... Not ONE!
Pandering to Apple only proves to them, people will settle for anything.
theBB
Jul 12, 04:41 PM
I can almost swear the initial press release announced this as an "institutional purchase only" product. I was actually surprised when students or teachers claimed they could order it as well. Maybe they just noticed their mistake and pulled it from personal purchase channels.
Eraserhead
Nov 13, 06:56 PM
Wonder whether OpenOffice will now work? (EDIT: It does!) Hopefully no more sleep issues which would be good!
geko29
Apr 5, 07:38 AM
frankly i don't see them coming out with a new model this summer. they haven't even done their usual mid-cycle hd bump.
What do you mean by "usual mid-cycle bump"? They've done that ONE TIME, and one time only, with the original iPhone.
2G launched at 4/8 GB. The 4GB was dropped just 3 months later, and the 16GB was added in February. This is the only mid-cycle capacity increase in the entire product history.
3G launched at 8/16, with the 16GB being discontinued one year later, and the 8GB continuing for another year.
3GS launched at 16/32, and both models were discontinued in favor of an 8GB one year later.
4 also launched at 16/32, and will remain there until June. What happens then is anyone's guess, mine being retention of the 16GB if the 5 is 32/64, or introduction of an 8GB if the 5 remains at 16/32.
So we have 3 examples of no bump, and one example of a bump--the exception is somehow "the usual"?
What do you mean by "usual mid-cycle bump"? They've done that ONE TIME, and one time only, with the original iPhone.
2G launched at 4/8 GB. The 4GB was dropped just 3 months later, and the 16GB was added in February. This is the only mid-cycle capacity increase in the entire product history.
3G launched at 8/16, with the 16GB being discontinued one year later, and the 8GB continuing for another year.
3GS launched at 16/32, and both models were discontinued in favor of an 8GB one year later.
4 also launched at 16/32, and will remain there until June. What happens then is anyone's guess, mine being retention of the 16GB if the 5 is 32/64, or introduction of an 8GB if the 5 remains at 16/32.
So we have 3 examples of no bump, and one example of a bump--the exception is somehow "the usual"?
pyramid6
Sep 5, 09:51 PM
It's a phone, they all are the same. I have not been impressed with the hardware of a cell phone ever. But we know it wil be the iPod OS, it will be white, it will work with iTunes, and it will sync your contacts, etc. Oh, and I bet the corners will be rounded.
Unless it has more than: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UTMS and is a world phone, has two cameras, a keyboard, an expansion slot, can play movies, and music, and can work with spreadsheets, word documents, has WIFI B/G and have bluetooth, they have not done anyhting that a couple of other companies have done. Take a Motorola POS and slap an Apple log on it, and put this rumor to sleep.
The only things Apple has over anyone else any more, is their OS. Their hardware is like everyone elses hardware.
P6
PS Lets not forget email and web access.
Unless it has more than: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UTMS and is a world phone, has two cameras, a keyboard, an expansion slot, can play movies, and music, and can work with spreadsheets, word documents, has WIFI B/G and have bluetooth, they have not done anyhting that a couple of other companies have done. Take a Motorola POS and slap an Apple log on it, and put this rumor to sleep.
The only things Apple has over anyone else any more, is their OS. Their hardware is like everyone elses hardware.
P6
PS Lets not forget email and web access.
BeSweeet
Apr 26, 01:30 PM
Could not agree more. The White iPhone looks like a cheap piece of garbage.
Objects in a photo may seem uglier than they appear :). Quite a sexy device IRL.
Objects in a photo may seem uglier than they appear :). Quite a sexy device IRL.
skellener
Apr 16, 11:27 PM
Then again, iPhone 5 could still come out in the not too distant future and iPhone 4, black and now white versions could become the new $49 phones like the 3Gs is now.
MaxLongwood
Apr 10, 07:56 PM
I don't want to read too much into this, but it's still upsetting that Steve Jobs' health is in bad shape. That being said, I can't wait to read this.
Coffee-Drinker
Apr 11, 07:59 AM
... I’d like to highlight Bookends, a Mac-specific program that is very reasonably priced and has served me and many other enthusiasts for already quite a while. Its developers offer great support and regularly implement needs expressed by their users. For students and other users that are on a tighter budget, Zotero offers a good open-source alternative...
I will definitely check out the trial version of Bookends. The price is a fair deal unlike the case of Endnote. Zotero sounds interesting. I will keep it in mind, in case some student asks me about a free solution. Thank you for the hints.
I will definitely check out the trial version of Bookends. The price is a fair deal unlike the case of Endnote. Zotero sounds interesting. I will keep it in mind, in case some student asks me about a free solution. Thank you for the hints.
