On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An interesting couple of reads:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/01/
from_macworld_0.html
You know, it sounds as though Yeager hasn't paid ANY attention to
what Jobs&Co said last year when they announced the move to Intel.
"Low end systems first, high end systems last"
Apple's Pro apps aren't 64-bit...they can't be...they run on PPC G4
systems. LOT of folks are using FCP on Powerbooks as a mobile editing
studio. Ditto for Logic and music. Being on 32 bit systems isn't
going to hurt these things.
These programs ARE helped by faster video and faster memory,
something these new system have definitely delivered.
The brightness of the display probably has less to do with design
than ALL LCD manufacturers have been making panels with eye-searing
brightness at first. I've seen this on all the newer LCD's we've been
getting, regardless of manufacturer.
And with the advent of the 20, 23 and 30" Cinema displays, I'd agree
not a lot of folks run two monitors with their desktop systems, but
there are a LOT of folks use two displays with their laptops.
He doesn't get what the iMac is at all, and keeps trying to compare
it to the pro systems.
And, finally, he demonstrates that he VERY clearly DOES NOT GET Core
Image/Video when he claims that application vendors will have to go
back to the drawing board because they have a "slow" CPU and fast
GPU. The whole POINT of Core Image/Video is that the OS handles this
decision *on the fly* WITHOUT having to tweak the code. You CAN force
something one way or the other, but you wouldn't want to!
Finally, in another of his idiot statements he says:
"As for the PowerBook G4 I have sitting in my lap now, I want out,
now. What about the Power Mac G5 Quad at my lab back in Texas? That's
a tough call, but then again not so tough. It stays, but come Summer,
it's toast, and if Intel isn't there with a CPU that matches it, I'm
moving to Darwin (the open source core of OS X) on dual CPU, dual
core Opteron until Intel catches up."
He's basically complaining that Apple isn't shipping pro versions of
Intel-based Macs despite the fact that a) Apple just released a
killer platform: the quad G5s, b) Intel's next gen 64-bit chip isn't
shipping yet, and c) APPLE ALREADY SAID that consumer Macs were going
to be the first ones to the Intel table, and Pro systems were the
last. Nothing Apple has done invalidates that.
Finally, he's complaining that he's going to have to pay $49 to get
universal binaries of the pro apps
(woobies, he's going to have to pay Adobe a heckuva lot more!) , then
in the next breath says if Apple doesn't have pro Intel systems this
summer, he's going to go buy an AMD system, load up darwin, and .....
do *what* exactly?
Use FilmGimp instead of Final Cut Pro?
If your computing needs are met by Darwin, what the hell are you
doing using Macs anyway?
More pointless whinging.
I don't know just exactly what it is, this time, but the doomsayers
are out in force this MacWorld, in the face of little to doomsay about.
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
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