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Apple Updates Pro Media Apps

Posted by timothy on from the cough-up-dough-and-make-more dept.

macguys writes "Apple Computer has released updates to its media Pro applications. Among the new software released are upgrades to Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack (now called Soundtrack Pro), DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Shake. A bundle of all the new applications (except Shake) is available under the name Final Cut Studio."

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  1. Steve Jobs Sneezes, News at 11 by nathanh · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Honestly, I thought the "Linux 2.6.11-rc2 released" articles were bad enough, but the incessant Apple product announcements are even worse. Is it really worth mentioning every single product that Apple releases? It's not even new software, it's just a bundle of existing proprietary software.

    /fears-that-slashdot-is-becoming-an-apple-conclave

    1. Re:Steve Jobs Sneezes, News at 11 by nathanh · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      Thanks for at least reading the article

      The article? You mean the product announcement on the Apple website. Yes, I did read it.

      Now, as also mentioned the concept that the apps were "proprietary". What exactly do you mean by proprietary? Like as in it isn't FOSS or like it doesn't work with other people's stuff? I invite you to take the Pepsi challenge and see for yourself.

      Riiiight, so are you saying that this software isn't proprietary?

      I hope we've all learned something here today. I for one have learned that people are far more apt to make mindless comments that learn about what it is that they think they dislike.

      I've learnt that Apple fanatics have blinkers the size of solar sails.

  2. My Mac Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a G5/1.8 w/1024 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even SubEthaEdit is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.