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I was at Macworld last week and got to play with the new Intel iMac and MacBook Pro, and I can say these things are FAST! Anyone who enjoys watching the Dock icons bounce is going to be completely bored because on native apps they barely have time to bounce once. And on apps relying on Rosetta for emulation, like Microsoft Office, etc, the icons only bounced once before the splash screen came up. Completely acceptable in my book.
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Posted 20 January 2006 - 04:10 PM
I never expected to be posting my opinion on anything today, but after hunting around for reviews of the g5 quad / 2.3 and the related memory, Final Cut setup, et cetera, I have to remark on the prolific ahem bitchy remarks on a lot of these forums, and the relative lack of helpful information about these products (although I do realize this is not a product forum, so sorry if it's a tad off-topic).
I am now a film editor but used to be an IT consultant. So, did I teensy bit of programming on PCs and now enjoy the friendlier world of Mac.
I am not sure if focusing on iPod represents a major shift from the professional creative world to the world of the everyday consumer, but I suspect not. The concept of the iPod presents a step toward tomorrow's television and my opinion (having used to have been in the integration business - mainframe to 3 tier client server) is that the closer the creative production/editing medium gets to the distribution medium, the tighter integration there can possibly be and hence ease of craft for the creative professional. If monopoly issues crop up, then there is the potential for a severe decline in product quality and along with it the arrogance and lack of integrity displayed by the Evil Empire, but Apple has never been the type of company Microsoft is.
It has amused me to watch Bill Gates fail again and again to make a dent in the entertainment industry. He has wasted millions of dollars and lost face so many times, I could almost feel sorry for the man (had I more respect for his ways and means of doing business).
But anyway, back to the topic, I for one am greatly impressed with Apple's integrity and evolution with regard to creative products. If they had done this Intel deal to make the bean counters happy, I would feel differently. But we're not talking about Excel or anything to do with (an) Office. From where I'm sitting, it would seem they did the Intel deal for us, and perhaps for the everyday Joe.
We creative types at some point need to realize that the whole world is being offered our toolset in miniature. If that makes the rest of the world more creative, I for one welcome the competition. A more creative world to me means the implication of more support for creative endeavors.
There also is of course the fact that they have to make their numbers, and to stay focused on us, Apple needs other sources of income.
Everyone likes to diss the punk garage band for selling out. To me Apple is the Radiohead of their industry. And going big didn't make Radiohead go bad. (At least I don't think so.)
I am now a film editor but used to be an IT consultant. So, did I teensy bit of programming on PCs and now enjoy the friendlier world of Mac.
I am not sure if focusing on iPod represents a major shift from the professional creative world to the world of the everyday consumer, but I suspect not. The concept of the iPod presents a step toward tomorrow's television and my opinion (having used to have been in the integration business - mainframe to 3 tier client server) is that the closer the creative production/editing medium gets to the distribution medium, the tighter integration there can possibly be and hence ease of craft for the creative professional. If monopoly issues crop up, then there is the potential for a severe decline in product quality and along with it the arrogance and lack of integrity displayed by the Evil Empire, but Apple has never been the type of company Microsoft is.
It has amused me to watch Bill Gates fail again and again to make a dent in the entertainment industry. He has wasted millions of dollars and lost face so many times, I could almost feel sorry for the man (had I more respect for his ways and means of doing business).
But anyway, back to the topic, I for one am greatly impressed with Apple's integrity and evolution with regard to creative products. If they had done this Intel deal to make the bean counters happy, I would feel differently. But we're not talking about Excel or anything to do with (an) Office. From where I'm sitting, it would seem they did the Intel deal for us, and perhaps for the everyday Joe.
We creative types at some point need to realize that the whole world is being offered our toolset in miniature. If that makes the rest of the world more creative, I for one welcome the competition. A more creative world to me means the implication of more support for creative endeavors.
There also is of course the fact that they have to make their numbers, and to stay focused on us, Apple needs other sources of income.
Everyone likes to diss the punk garage band for selling out. To me Apple is the Radiohead of their industry. And going big didn't make Radiohead go bad. (At least I don't think so.)
