We use macs where I work and upgraded last year, right after Lion came out.
Quicktime is just garbage compared to what it used to be and even with the
latest updates, the OS is still full of bugs (especially if you use 2
monitors). Maybe with Jobs out of the way things will improve, but I sort of
doubt it. Apple tends to "think different" from normal people.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Leydecker
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:14 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac
pros...
Is this latest news?
The late 2012 MacPros are, umhh, not impressive but apple mgmnt has promised
something really great for next year...
I wonder how much this is a result of Jobs gone (r.i.p.) and Intel not
feeling
any pressure to make Xeons competitive in terms of price against
performance?
The 2008 MacPro´s beat Dell/HP/Lenovo both in terms of price and style and
opened
a big chunk of market to the MacPro by making them run really nice with
windows.
...
Maybe we don´t need content creation artists using dedicated hardware
anymore?
There´s enough cloud apps to instantly create nice images and rights-managed
stuff
billed by the click to get rid of pesky artists blocking the retina already?
And there´s always india, china and millions of young, idealistic interns to
pull from?
...
I would also like to have a solid, clutter free workstation without any
license/transfer hassle
I can use productively for content creation using stable and reliably tools
plus betas where
it makes sense.
But maybe I´m old-fashioned and should just wave off (using a gesture
involving my middle finger?)
Cheers,
tim
On 18.08.2012 05:01, Sylvain Lebeau wrote:
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac
pros...
Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional
market get's ignored!!
i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone!!!!!
wtf is going on with these guys!?
sly
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Paul Griswold <mailto:pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com>
Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM
My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft
has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested
it out yet?
I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but
I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it.
I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine & start over anyway.
Thanks,
Paul
