Interesting. So I guess the decade I spent as a member of the Apple Consultants Network means I hate Macs. And supporting an actual video editing shop that used Final Cut Server, who were left in the lurch when Apple launched FCX - that didn't happen either. And nobody ever makes newer equipment and doesn't write drivers and codecs for old end of life software.
It used to be that the majority of video editing was waiting on a progress bar that said "rendering" above it. With GPU compute, those days are mostly gone. Thus, my original post.
Apple hasn't been keeping up in the horsepower department, which has allowed Adobe Premiere back into the game. Especially with the dumpster fire that was the release of Final Cut X.
Apparently you don't value your time. You had to research and price out each component, purchase each one, wait for shipping (or drive around town and pick them up putting miles / wear on your vehicle). You had to assemble each and every part. You had to do any troubleshooting. You had to install the OS, and each driver. And, should anything go wrong, it's your time to figure out what it is and fix it.
How many hours did you spend doing all of that? That's the "magic applesauce" that every OEM includes in the price.
Note: I say this having a 6-core X99-based i7 under my desk that I self-assembled, which is dead silent while working full bore. I did it because I get exactly what I want in the box, and at the time no OEM was delivering anything close to what I wanted; not because I believe in some fallacy of saving money, because I actually value my time.
It depends on your definitions of "largest" and "computer".
If the metric for "largest" you are going with is market capitalization, then yes, they are the largest. Nobody with a working brain would do that, but hey, it's CNBC we're talking about - of course a stock market news site is going to use stock market metrics. Similarly, if you include smartphones and tablets as "computers" than Apple might actually beat Lenovo in volume numbers. Maybe. And again, only some idiot Wall Street analyst would do that - not anyone who actually understands the tech sector.
So yes, if you go with the traditional (read: correct) definitions, you are right. If you go with the mealy-mouthed Wall Street news version, then they are right. Isn't this fun?
They weren't going for user friendly. They were going for simpler manufacturing. Sockets and DIMM slots gives you that - only one manufacturing line for all 21" models, with chips snapped in at the end based on the orders.
They could still give a shit about upgradeability - if you want that, go buy a ridiculously expensive and wholly outdated 4 year old Mac Pro!
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the manufacturing process and logistics operation becomes cheaper and easier with modular construction of CPU and RAM. Instead of doing multiple runs of boards that have different CPU and RAM combinations, you can just snap in whatever is necessary on a single production line before it gets glued in. (wtf glue?)
You put it perfectly when you referred to their solder addiction. Now they need to get off the glue too. Seriously, Apple - one or two screws are fine.
Apple customers have already played the "buy a new version of the same software at full price or eat a performance penalty" game twice now (680x0 -> PPC, PPC -> x64). While Apple has magnificently pulled off these transitions, their software partners have in large part been amazingly douchey about it. Especially the software vendors that most Mac shops depend on the most: the creative and business titles like Adobe, Microsoft; and back in the day, Quark.
Quark was the WORST, and quite frankly I'm surprised they are still in business after Adobe launched InDesign.
Yeah, because Intel hasn't been there with AMD before. Remember the Pentium 4 with it's ridiculously deep pipeline and equally ridiculous branch prediction failure rate? Intel got complacent and was more concerned with Ghz than actual performance. AMD pulled ahead.
Then the sleeping giant woke up and where has AMD been for the last 11 years? 2nd place, and usually a distant second.
I'm glad that AMD is putting out a few good products these days - it's been a while. And it keeps everyone honest. I want a strong AMD, because in the end we all win when Intel can't just sit on a silo of laurels; the same way I want a strong Apple *and* Android. Tough competition benefits the customers.
If someone buys a low power device and expects to run AutoCAD on it, then they get what they deserve. Anyone who actually uses those high-end software titles will know better, and steer clear of these low-power devices that are "yet-another-iPad-killer."
The only thing that has proven to be an iPad killer, is the iPad itself - either because new versions don't offer anything compelling over versions already purchased, or because the entire class of device has proven to not be useful outside of a somewhat narrow set of situations.
Yeah, if Twitter was somehow the only official channel to petition the government, then you may have a point.
Twitter is a private entity, and has nothing to do with the US Government. Your official channel for redress is still your representative in the United States Congress. Go back and read the first 5 words of the amendment yourself.
So what you're saying is that I only need to commit a heist to get all this gear, and then get a 12 kW solar array installed on my roof complete with a Tesla PowerWall, and then I'll be rich! (after paying for the off-grid solar setup)
Or even better, I'm using Kodi as a front-end to MythTV, which is recording crap that they are broadcasting over-the-air without any encryption or expectation that someone isn't 'time-shifting' it, as everyone has been doing since the 1980s.
Just what the hell is an "illegal streaming device" ? Are there manufacturers out there making illegal devices that people are using? If so, how are these getting imported without the FTC stepping in?
Or is this just another case of Hollywood idiocy using terms they barely understand to talk about a technology they absolutely don't understand and want to squeeze back into the metaphorical toothpaste tube instead of embracing?
Is this some hyperbolic way of saying that my PLEX server is somehow illegal, because apparently format-shifting isn't allowed anymore under fair-use rules in their minds? Was the Betamax decision reversed when nobody was looking?
Except that China, even with their lower 'per capita' number, is putting twice the carbon pollution into the atmosphere that the US is.
I do demand that my brother cleans up his room and the hallway when his room is so fucking dirty that his shit is spilling into the hallway because he can't close the door.
I'm sure it was a typo, but you aren't wrong when you say there is lots of "grafts" in the US Government budget.
By the way, there is a such thing as a Republican who thinks that military spending is way out of control, and that if you want to do real work towards balancing the budget, you should start there.
Yeah, because it's super hard to implement a routine like "wheel turned past 15 degrees within two minutes of engine start = disable emissions until engine off"
You know many people with a mile long driveway that points right at their garage, who drive Audi? That simple logic above would work just fine for detecting a test scenario versus real world driving.
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Interesting. So I guess the decade I spent as a member of the Apple Consultants Network means I hate Macs. And supporting an actual video editing shop that used Final Cut Server, who were left in the lurch when Apple launched FCX - that didn't happen either. And nobody ever makes newer equipment and doesn't write drivers and codecs for old end of life software.
Or, maybe you're making very bad assumptions.
It used to be that the majority of video editing was waiting on a progress bar that said "rendering" above it. With GPU compute, those days are mostly gone. Thus, my original post.
Apple hasn't been keeping up in the horsepower department, which has allowed Adobe Premiere back into the game. Especially with the dumpster fire that was the release of Final Cut X.
Today's AutoCAD does many more things that require vastly more computational power than the old version you used in high school?
Apparently you don't value your time. You had to research and price out each component, purchase each one, wait for shipping (or drive around town and pick them up putting miles / wear on your vehicle). You had to assemble each and every part. You had to do any troubleshooting. You had to install the OS, and each driver. And, should anything go wrong, it's your time to figure out what it is and fix it.
How many hours did you spend doing all of that? That's the "magic applesauce" that every OEM includes in the price.
Note: I say this having a 6-core X99-based i7 under my desk that I self-assembled, which is dead silent while working full bore. I did it because I get exactly what I want in the box, and at the time no OEM was delivering anything close to what I wanted; not because I believe in some fallacy of saving money, because I actually value my time.
You didn't need one for a G4, G5, or Mac Pro either - there was just a latch you pull on, and the whole side comes off, or hinges open.
I absolutely loved working on the G4, where the logic board was mounted to the hinged door. It was a brilliant design.
Oh, you were replying to the GP post, who is pulling figures from his ass, that I ignored. Carry on.
Sometimes I wish Slashdot had an edit button.
It depends on your definitions of "largest" and "computer".
If the metric for "largest" you are going with is market capitalization, then yes, they are the largest. Nobody with a working brain would do that, but hey, it's CNBC we're talking about - of course a stock market news site is going to use stock market metrics. Similarly, if you include smartphones and tablets as "computers" than Apple might actually beat Lenovo in volume numbers. Maybe. And again, only some idiot Wall Street analyst would do that - not anyone who actually understands the tech sector.
So yes, if you go with the traditional (read: correct) definitions, you are right. If you go with the mealy-mouthed Wall Street news version, then they are right. Isn't this fun?
They weren't going for user friendly. They were going for simpler manufacturing. Sockets and DIMM slots gives you that - only one manufacturing line for all 21" models, with chips snapped in at the end based on the orders.
They could still give a shit about upgradeability - if you want that, go buy a ridiculously expensive and wholly outdated 4 year old Mac Pro!
For video editing, the best equipment is something you can plug as many GPUs into as possible.
That basically rules out anything running OS X. And if you're running an edit bay that costs $1000/hr+, every second counts.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the manufacturing process and logistics operation becomes cheaper and easier with modular construction of CPU and RAM. Instead of doing multiple runs of boards that have different CPU and RAM combinations, you can just snap in whatever is necessary on a single production line before it gets glued in. (wtf glue?)
You put it perfectly when you referred to their solder addiction. Now they need to get off the glue too. Seriously, Apple - one or two screws are fine.
Apple customers have already played the "buy a new version of the same software at full price or eat a performance penalty" game twice now (680x0 -> PPC, PPC -> x64). While Apple has magnificently pulled off these transitions, their software partners have in large part been amazingly douchey about it. Especially the software vendors that most Mac shops depend on the most: the creative and business titles like Adobe, Microsoft; and back in the day, Quark.
Quark was the WORST, and quite frankly I'm surprised they are still in business after Adobe launched InDesign.
Yeah, because Intel hasn't been there with AMD before. Remember the Pentium 4 with it's ridiculously deep pipeline and equally ridiculous branch prediction failure rate? Intel got complacent and was more concerned with Ghz than actual performance. AMD pulled ahead.
Then the sleeping giant woke up and where has AMD been for the last 11 years? 2nd place, and usually a distant second.
I'm glad that AMD is putting out a few good products these days - it's been a while. And it keeps everyone honest. I want a strong AMD, because in the end we all win when Intel can't just sit on a silo of laurels; the same way I want a strong Apple *and* Android. Tough competition benefits the customers.
If someone buys a low power device and expects to run AutoCAD on it, then they get what they deserve. Anyone who actually uses those high-end software titles will know better, and steer clear of these low-power devices that are "yet-another-iPad-killer."
The only thing that has proven to be an iPad killer, is the iPad itself - either because new versions don't offer anything compelling over versions already purchased, or because the entire class of device has proven to not be useful outside of a somewhat narrow set of situations.
Yeah, because that hasn't been the case for like 20 years now.
Well, that situation is different - Intel is a licensee of ARM. Remember the StrongARM / Xscale chips? When they bought DEC, they got DEC's license.
Now only if there were some other method of redress. Like any of the ones that have existed for the last 230+ years before Twitter.
Yeah, if Twitter was somehow the only official channel to petition the government, then you may have a point.
Twitter is a private entity, and has nothing to do with the US Government. Your official channel for redress is still your representative in the United States Congress. Go back and read the first 5 words of the amendment yourself.
So what you're saying is that I only need to commit a heist to get all this gear, and then get a 12 kW solar array installed on my roof complete with a Tesla PowerWall, and then I'll be rich! (after paying for the off-grid solar setup)
Yeah, seems like a huge waste of resources.
Or even better, I'm using Kodi as a front-end to MythTV, which is recording crap that they are broadcasting over-the-air without any encryption or expectation that someone isn't 'time-shifting' it, as everyone has been doing since the 1980s.
Just what the hell is an "illegal streaming device" ? Are there manufacturers out there making illegal devices that people are using? If so, how are these getting imported without the FTC stepping in?
Or is this just another case of Hollywood idiocy using terms they barely understand to talk about a technology they absolutely don't understand and want to squeeze back into the metaphorical toothpaste tube instead of embracing?
Is this some hyperbolic way of saying that my PLEX server is somehow illegal, because apparently format-shifting isn't allowed anymore under fair-use rules in their minds? Was the Betamax decision reversed when nobody was looking?
Except that China, even with their lower 'per capita' number, is putting twice the carbon pollution into the atmosphere that the US is.
I do demand that my brother cleans up his room and the hallway when his room is so fucking dirty that his shit is spilling into the hallway because he can't close the door.
I'm sure it was a typo, but you aren't wrong when you say there is lots of "grafts" in the US Government budget.
By the way, there is a such thing as a Republican who thinks that military spending is way out of control, and that if you want to do real work towards balancing the budget, you should start there.
I was talking about Nicaragua's stance. But thanks for putting a shload of words into my mouth.
Yeah, because it's super hard to implement a routine like "wheel turned past 15 degrees within two minutes of engine start = disable emissions until engine off"
You know many people with a mile long driveway that points right at their garage, who drive Audi? That simple logic above would work just fine for detecting a test scenario versus real world driving.