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Apple Unveils New Pro Products

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the make-room-for-intel-tech dept.

porcupine8 writes "As many had speculated, today Apple unveiled upgrades to their PowerBook and Power Mac lines (although no PowerBook G5). They also introduced a new professional photography application known as Aperture, rounding out their software lineup for creative professionals. Can't wait to find out what they announce next week!"

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  1. Powerbook Resolution by rjstanford · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Finally Apple has upped the resolution on their powerbooks to something more reasonable (at least, reasonable to me - other people have different requirements). Whoops, no, I tell a lie, its only on their 15" and 17" models. The 12" i^HpowerBook is still at 1024x768. If this had been equally increased, I'd be very happy. As it is, the form factor is perfect but the resolution just too limiting for it to be my standard road machine.

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  2. The time to buy is now for PowerMac G5 by rizzo320 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These are some of the most expandible workstations Apple has ever released. 16GB of RAM and a TB of storage makes a killer multimedia editing workstation all around. If you are weary of the Intel switchover, the time to buy is now. The workstations should hold you over well into the second and third revisions of Apple Intel hardware at least.

  3. Re:Hmmm, by Mikey-San · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Aperture isn't competing with Photoshop, it's competing with things like this:

    PhaseOne's Capture One

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  4. Re:Aperture info by archdetector · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Aperture's feature set is different from Photoshop's, yes, but where they overlap is significant from a photographer's point of view. I'd say that 95% of what I do to photos is now covered by Aperture. I'll still need PS, but as of today it's been relegated to secondary importance, and will be much more easily replaced if something simpler/cheaper/better comes along. For people like graphic designers and digital artists, Aperture may only be a nice accompaniment to PS, but for photographers, this is huge. It's actually quite perfect.

  5. Re:Aperture info by shotfeel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks to me like Apple showing what can be done with Core Image.

  6. Re:No PowerBook G5 by admactanium · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Hell, I'm amazed anyone is actually planning on buying ANY Apple hardware based on the obsolete PowerPC architecture.
    you're looking at it from the wrong way. i'm a professional art director/graphic designer and i ordered a quad core this morning when i woke up. a lot of small studios and pro who aren't on a strict purchasing schedule have been waiting a very long time for this machine. the reason being, we all know the intel transition is coming. i would be one of the first early adopters of it IF i knew that my needed graphics apps were going to be ported quickly and the bugs of the processor transition were squashed. but since we don't know really when the all the apps will be ready, we need a machine that is future-proofed for a couple of years.

    i'm looking for a machine to last me for probably two to three years. it's likely i won't switch to the intel platform until the second generation and i bet a lot of other pros are waiting it out as well. ppc is a known quantity and familiarity and predicability are very important when you rely on your computer and third party apps to make a living. so i'll stick on ppc until i KNOW that all the issues are worked out on intel. a quad 2.5 machine is the perfect machine to tide me over until macintel gen 2.