Have you actually looked at DaVinci Resolve? It's not freeware; there's a free version, but there's also a $1000 version and a $30,000 version that comes bundled with some hardware. Pull your head out, the air's cleaner out here.
So can the MacBook Pro. What Apple says it can be upgraded to, and what it can actually handle are two different beasts.
Not since the Retina models.
To wit, my 2011 iMac is upgraded well past the max 16GB professed by Apple, as is my MacBook pro.
Your 2011 iMac has 4 RAM slots and uses a chipset that supports 8GB DIMMs, your MacBook Pro hasn't been updated since 2013, has 2 RAM slots and uses a chipset that supports 8GB DIMMs. Those machines can use 32GB and 16GB, respectively. The current iMac models are no different; the current MacBook Pro models, starting with the first Retina model, are very much limited to what Apple says they can support, by way of the fucking RAM being fucking soldered to the fucking board.
Tried DaVinci Resolve? You know it's grown far beyond its color grading roots to become a full-fledged NLE. It's also pretty damn snappy, especially when you have a powerful GPU it can render on.
Know what's even funnier? As a Mac user, I'm now one of those people who wouldn't buy anything made by Apple; at least, not for my own use. The machine I'm typing this on is the last machine Apple made that fits my needs as a professional user.
When it's docked at home, you plug into your stationary device that has all of your other stationary devices already plugged into it. What about when you need to plug it in for a presentation in a random conference room you haven't had weeks or years to set up just how you like it?
You know, real world professional use cases.
Oh, that's right, you bought a MacBook (sans Pro). We're talking about the MacBook Pro, a machine supposedly targeted toward users who actually use their machines in a professional capacity, for whom connectivity can mean the difference between landing that big client and getting a promotion or flubbing the presentation and getting fired.
If you want a stationary machine, the iMac gives you much more bang for your buck; I just bought my wife a new 27" to replace her failing 13" MacBook Pro and she loves it. I'm also traveling cross-country at the moment, brought my PC and MacBook Pro with me and am typing this on the Mac right now while watching Hulu on my iPad Pro; I haven't unpacked the PC once for the duration of the trip.
I'm not an Apple hater, the new MacBook Pro is just garbage for real-world professional laptop use. I'm glad to see it's useful for desktop-oriented tasks like video editing, so at least it has a place, and that's great if you have a fixed environment in which you use it; but that's not how laptops are typically used in business. Business (e.g. Pro) laptops are used in a variety of placed with a variety of possible connectivity options, any of which may or may not exist when and where you need to use it; thus, bag full of dongles and adapters.
That your desk queen doesn't need that means dick all in the real world.
As a California citizen, I can attest to the fact that this is absolutely false. We do not yet require the sun to block itself out with a prop 65 warning.
California is a poor state with a net deficit. I live there, the state is bankrupt. That is to say nothing of its people, but the state itself lives in a cardboard box under a bridge.
If I knew the future I would have worded my post so as to avoid your pointless response. I just don't have my head up my ass and can typically accurately extrapolate the future actions of a person or company based on their current posture and recent history. Sometimes I'm wrong; not often and not here, but sometimes.
So, Apple has ceased to operate for profit and must now sell at a fixed price and choose between taking a loss or dropping features? Keeping the features and adjusting the price of the product accordingly isn't an option?
They sell USB-A to USB-C cables? I've seen C-B, but not A-C... For that my friend, or if your reader has a permanently attached cable or connector, you'll need an adapter.
by the way the Surface Book is using the same GPU as my late 2013 MacBook Pro that I am upgrading from
So was the MacBook Pro on Octover 26, 2015, when the Surface Book came out. Incidentally, it was the best GPU that fit the thermal profile of the machine at the time; the 1000 series only just came out and no comparable 1000 series part has been released yet.
That's fine for a desktop, or a laptop that you only use at one specific desk (e.g. a desktop). A laptop that you use as a portable machine (e.g. a laptop) should not be tied down to a monitor with all of your connected peripherals attached to it.
This. If time_to_transfer_over_internal_reader every single time.
Should read:
This. If time_to_transfer_over_internal_reader <= time_to_transfer_over_external_reader + time_to_unpack_external_reader + time_to_put_away_external_reader + value_of_convenience, the internal reader wins every single time.
Never underestimate the power of convenience. The slot in your laptop is there as long as you have your laptop with you. An external reader is something you have to dig out of your bag.
This. If time_to_transfer_over_internal_reader every single time.
Basically, for anything less than a full 8GB or larger card, internal wins.
they just keep reducing ports and reducing choices.
On the contrary; when Apple no longer makes a product that works for someone who previously wouldn't have considered a PC they're actually increasing choices for that user. They now have the entirety of the PC market to choose from.
Nobody I know is happy with Apple's choices for this generation of MBP. Nobody. And I know a lot of die hard Apple fans. To clarify, most of my friends have been somewhat annoyed with me for pointing out that apple was heading in this direction six years ago and have only grown more so as time has gone by; until October 27th, that is. Now, the vast majority of them agree with me and seem to feel silly for not having seen it when I first pointed it out.
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Right, you dump the contents... using the SD slot the MacBook Pro doesn't have. Thus the need for the adapter your grandparent post mentioned.
Have you actually looked at DaVinci Resolve? It's not freeware; there's a free version, but there's also a $1000 version and a $30,000 version that comes bundled with some hardware. Pull your head out, the air's cleaner out here.
So can the MacBook Pro. What Apple says it can be upgraded to, and what it can actually handle are two different beasts.
Not since the Retina models.
To wit, my 2011 iMac is upgraded well past the max 16GB professed by Apple, as is my MacBook pro.
Your 2011 iMac has 4 RAM slots and uses a chipset that supports 8GB DIMMs, your MacBook Pro hasn't been updated since 2013, has 2 RAM slots and uses a chipset that supports 8GB DIMMs. Those machines can use 32GB and 16GB, respectively. The current iMac models are no different; the current MacBook Pro models, starting with the first Retina model, are very much limited to what Apple says they can support, by way of the fucking RAM being fucking soldered to the fucking board.
Tried DaVinci Resolve? You know it's grown far beyond its color grading roots to become a full-fledged NLE. It's also pretty damn snappy, especially when you have a powerful GPU it can render on.
Ah... Powerful GPU... How I long for ye in a Mac.
I hacked my MagSafe to do double-duty as described above and it hasn't been a prob+++NO CARRIER
Know what's even funnier? As a Mac user, I'm now one of those people who wouldn't buy anything made by Apple; at least, not for my own use. The machine I'm typing this on is the last machine Apple made that fits my needs as a professional user.
Maybe it's more than just a talking point.
When it's docked at home, you plug into your stationary device that has all of your other stationary devices already plugged into it. What about when you need to plug it in for a presentation in a random conference room you haven't had weeks or years to set up just how you like it?
You know, real world professional use cases.
Oh, that's right, you bought a MacBook (sans Pro). We're talking about the MacBook Pro, a machine supposedly targeted toward users who actually use their machines in a professional capacity, for whom connectivity can mean the difference between landing that big client and getting a promotion or flubbing the presentation and getting fired.
If you want a stationary machine, the iMac gives you much more bang for your buck; I just bought my wife a new 27" to replace her failing 13" MacBook Pro and she loves it. I'm also traveling cross-country at the moment, brought my PC and MacBook Pro with me and am typing this on the Mac right now while watching Hulu on my iPad Pro; I haven't unpacked the PC once for the duration of the trip.
I'm not an Apple hater, the new MacBook Pro is just garbage for real-world professional laptop use. I'm glad to see it's useful for desktop-oriented tasks like video editing, so at least it has a place, and that's great if you have a fixed environment in which you use it; but that's not how laptops are typically used in business. Business (e.g. Pro) laptops are used in a variety of placed with a variety of possible connectivity options, any of which may or may not exist when and where you need to use it; thus, bag full of dongles and adapters.
That your desk queen doesn't need that means dick all in the real world.
As a California citizen, I can attest to the fact that this is absolutely false. We do not yet require the sun to block itself out with a prop 65 warning.
California is a poor state with a net deficit. I live there, the state is bankrupt. That is to say nothing of its people, but the state itself lives in a cardboard box under a bridge.
Well, in this case we're talking about radioactive materials. The warning is at least warranted.
without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress
Yes, we can.
Yes, Apple is still a for-profit company, I know this. Notice the rhetorical question you took as a statement of fact?
Sometimes it's best not to speak. For you, 9:23PM PST on November 3rd, 2016 was one of those times.
If I knew the future I would have worded my post so as to avoid your pointless response. I just don't have my head up my ass and can typically accurately extrapolate the future actions of a person or company based on their current posture and recent history. Sometimes I'm wrong; not often and not here, but sometimes.
incur the cost
So, Apple has ceased to operate for profit and must now sell at a fixed price and choose between taking a loss or dropping features? Keeping the features and adjusting the price of the product accordingly isn't an option?
I foresee many damaged devices as a result of that cable...
They sell USB-A to USB-C cables? I've seen C-B, but not A-C... For that my friend, or if your reader has a permanently attached cable or connector, you'll need an adapter.
The word "pro" stopped meaning professional a while ago
Right, now it means "pro"-fitable.
by the way the Surface Book is using the same GPU as my late 2013 MacBook Pro that I am upgrading from
So was the MacBook Pro on Octover 26, 2015, when the Surface Book came out. Incidentally, it was the best GPU that fit the thermal profile of the machine at the time; the 1000 series only just came out and no comparable 1000 series part has been released yet.
That's fine for a desktop, or a laptop that you only use at one specific desk (e.g. a desktop). A laptop that you use as a portable machine (e.g. a laptop) should not be tied down to a monitor with all of your connected peripherals attached to it.
This. If time_to_transfer_over_internal_reader every single time.
Should read:
This. If time_to_transfer_over_internal_reader <= time_to_transfer_over_external_reader + time_to_unpack_external_reader + time_to_put_away_external_reader + value_of_convenience, the internal reader wins every single time.
Never underestimate the power of convenience. The slot in your laptop is there as long as you have your laptop with you. An external reader is something you have to dig out of your bag.
This. If time_to_transfer_over_internal_reader every single time.
Basically, for anything less than a full 8GB or larger card, internal wins.
You can pack a lot more of them into a small case.
Because cameras are notoriously SLOW to transfer over USB, despite having no problem reading and writing to the fastest of cards at full speed.
So they can use it with their other computers? They'll need an adapter one way or the other.
they just keep reducing ports and reducing choices.
On the contrary; when Apple no longer makes a product that works for someone who previously wouldn't have considered a PC they're actually increasing choices for that user. They now have the entirety of the PC market to choose from.
Nobody I know is happy with Apple's choices for this generation of MBP. Nobody. And I know a lot of die hard Apple fans. To clarify, most of my friends have been somewhat annoyed with me for pointing out that apple was heading in this direction six years ago and have only grown more so as time has gone by; until October 27th, that is. Now, the vast majority of them agree with me and seem to feel silly for not having seen it when I first pointed it out.