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Pro Video Editor Says MacBook Pro Beats Out Superior Spec'd Windows Machines In Real-World (9to5mac.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Reviews for Apple's new MacBook Pro have yet to officially go live, despite a couple false starts earlier this week. Those should arrive any day now ahead of a retail release for the machine, but one pro video editor today published his early hands-on review after using the new 15-inch model in a real-world setting. The review also aims to address some of the early criticisms of the new MacBook Pro from pros, showing how the machine held up in a real-world, professional environment. The author Thomas Grove Carter works at Trim Editing, a studio in London where he edits "high end commercials, music videos and films" using Final Cut Pro. The review specifically focuses on the experience using the machine in a professional video editor's daily workflow. Carter's conclusion is that the new 15-inch model he was using (he doesn't detail specs), is more than capable of handling daily editing in FCP X with 5K ProRes footage. He also notes that machine "tears strips off 'superior spec'd' Windows counterparts in the real world." Thomas Grove Carter writes: "First off, It's really fast. I've been using the MacBook Pro with the new version of FCP X and cutting 5k ProRes material all week, it's buttery smooth. No matter what you think the specs say, the fact is the software and hardware are so well integrated it tears strips off 'superior spec'd' Windows counterparts in the real world. This has always been true of Macs. If you're running software with old code which doesn't utilize the hardware well, you're not going to get great performance (as pointed out here)."
Terrible review
1) "its fast" dur no one said it wasnt
2) "he has usb-c SSDs" wow go you
3) "dongles arent a problem as i use the laptop in a desktop setting anyway and will be buying a thunderbolt dock for the desk" AWESOME man thats great that youve removed the laptops killer feature, portability, to accessorise
4) "everyone that isnt as enlightened as the reviewer sucks" thanks for telling us we arent as good as you because this generation of MBP doesnt work for our needs
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Modern X11 and systemd are certainly not very UNIXy either. Under the hood on a Mac you have a very complete FreeBSD userland and I'll take BSD over GNU any day of the week. You can even switch to using 'init' and the rc.d scripts if you really want to. Enabling root is also quite easy. Performance tuning is also not very hard but also not very necessary in most cases. In my experience things are much snappier than any out of the box Windows install.
The Mac GUI is very much an evolution of the Display Postscript based NeXT GUI environment. Sun also had something similar in the old days called NeWS.
And most REAL UNIX environments were proprietary for decades. Just because you're used to open source doesn't mean open source was and is the only game in town.
You know, outlook forms don't work on the macOS version, I have spreadsheets that have macros which are unusable on macOS, I have a variety of word documents that don't render properly on macOS's word.
On macOS, I have Microsoft Office for Mac 15.27 (161010).
On Windows, I have Office 2016.
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In video editing, that's the key. The new MBPs have the fastest bulk storage systems anyone's shipped in a portable yet.
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That's the problem. I don't want to have to buy a bag full of adapters.
Ok, I'll bite. What are you going to connect to this machine that you'll need "a bag full of adapters" for?
For the record, I've been using a MacBook as my primary machine for several months. This machine has a single USB-C port. When it's docked at home I'm using exactly ONE adapter: Apple's USB-C Digital Multiport adapter (USB-C + HDMI + USB). It's plugged to USB-C power, a 27" Asus display, three external USB hard drives and a USB scanner via a generic USB hub.
I really don't see most people using more than one adapter, and even less a few months from now when most new devices come equipped with an USB-C port.
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