Stephen Lovett
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Half Pregnant
Half Pregnant
This is an interesting thread.
I personally am an agnostic. I've been employed by both Apple and Microsoft.
My personal and professional computational platforms are a mix of OSX and Windows.
I am however extremely frustrated with Apple and have been for some time. So the existing Xeon processor choice is a short term answer that is power hungry and inefficient compared to what Intel is delivering later this year, and so you want to wait to deliver a new workstation platform until next year. OK. I don't have a huge problem with that, but say so up front, don't make me dig for a leaked comment from a technology columnist
Given that choice however... why the heck haven't you delivered a Thunderbolt PCIe card so that I can share the peripherals that work across the rest of your product line with the "new" MacPro? (and my significant investment in what is essentially the same model)
Regardless of both it's strengths and weaknesses ProRes continues to be the lingua franca in much of the production community. Given your choice not to deliver a current workstation, why not extend the license that already exits with AJA to allow for platform agnostic ProRes rendering?
The IOHD had this ability, but is limited to firewire speeds. Frankly I don't care who builds the thing, but as it extends your Quicktime platform at a time when your ProApps division is doing everything in its power to piss off the professional production community, it seams like ignoring such an opportunity further calls into question the long term viability of a platform that is key to your delivering content to your very profitable consumer electronics customers.
If there isn't enough money in building high end workstations to make it a fit for your core business, why not license a multiprocessor only version of the OS to a system integrator or better yet to a company like HP that builds well engineered hardware and replicate something like what MS did with the compatibility labs where the testing costs are the responsibility of the HP or the hardware integrator.
I know this runs counter to your core DNA, but we've been down this path before. Remember that whole internet thing with no TCPIC stack, broken transport, and not wanting to use other peoples browsers or Java runtime engines? That turned out OK didn't it.
Sigh...
I love you guys, I buy your stuff, but sometimes I want to load a trap full of iphones and just yell "Pull" all day.
If the Tekserver guys can deliver at the prices we were talking about at the open house, there is very likely one of these in my future, they will be a very good value.
Half Pregnant
This is an interesting thread.
I personally am an agnostic. I've been employed by both Apple and Microsoft.
My personal and professional computational platforms are a mix of OSX and Windows.
I am however extremely frustrated with Apple and have been for some time. So the existing Xeon processor choice is a short term answer that is power hungry and inefficient compared to what Intel is delivering later this year, and so you want to wait to deliver a new workstation platform until next year. OK. I don't have a huge problem with that, but say so up front, don't make me dig for a leaked comment from a technology columnist
Given that choice however... why the heck haven't you delivered a Thunderbolt PCIe card so that I can share the peripherals that work across the rest of your product line with the "new" MacPro? (and my significant investment in what is essentially the same model)
Regardless of both it's strengths and weaknesses ProRes continues to be the lingua franca in much of the production community. Given your choice not to deliver a current workstation, why not extend the license that already exits with AJA to allow for platform agnostic ProRes rendering?
The IOHD had this ability, but is limited to firewire speeds. Frankly I don't care who builds the thing, but as it extends your Quicktime platform at a time when your ProApps division is doing everything in its power to piss off the professional production community, it seams like ignoring such an opportunity further calls into question the long term viability of a platform that is key to your delivering content to your very profitable consumer electronics customers.
If there isn't enough money in building high end workstations to make it a fit for your core business, why not license a multiprocessor only version of the OS to a system integrator or better yet to a company like HP that builds well engineered hardware and replicate something like what MS did with the compatibility labs where the testing costs are the responsibility of the HP or the hardware integrator.
I know this runs counter to your core DNA, but we've been down this path before. Remember that whole internet thing with no TCPIC stack, broken transport, and not wanting to use other peoples browsers or Java runtime engines? That turned out OK didn't it.
Sigh...
I love you guys, I buy your stuff, but sometimes I want to load a trap full of iphones and just yell "Pull" all day.
If the Tekserver guys can deliver at the prices we were talking about at the open house, there is very likely one of these in my future, they will be a very good value.
