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Apple destroys MacBook Pro

Jeff Kilgroe said:
The numbers being tossed around, about ExpressCard users falling into a single percentage, are complete bull. How does Apple even come up with that number? Or is it that only single-digit percentage of their MBP customers buy ExpressCard peripherals through the Apple Store? When the Apple Store has very few to pick from and at terrible prices.
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Exactly. At the Apple store where I bought my MBP, I had to explain to them what an Expresscard was, and then managed to find ONE expresscard unit in the whole store - a $400 Firewire 400 card!
 
Jeff summed it up. That computer is useless for me. I will most likely buy more of my last gen 15" MBP's to have a stock till the apple laptops become useful to me again.
 
Macbook Pro

Macbook Pro

Maybe its time for AJA to release their own laptop. They seem rather more aware of what is needed than Apple the superficial these days.
 
The question is "What is Steve Jobs up to?"
 
I bought my Used Macbook Pro for a deal because the DVD drive didnt work... I've never once needed it or felt it was worth fixing. I've used that laptop for dozens of Red shoots. But I would have tossed it away if I couldn't use e-sata
Brent J. Craig said:
I have used my DVD drive 10 times.

I use my Expresscard slot daily.
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Not as expierenced as many of u on here are
but when I looked at the specs on something like a g raid for the read and write speeds,the FW 800 didn't seem THAT far behind the esata in some cases...so why can't the FW800 be used?I'm sure in November they'll upgrade or in 2010 to provide two of these FW800 ports or the USB3 port maybe able to give a small substitue for the lose of the express port.my understanding of all this is small but I dint see why there aren't work arounds?
 
Transferring data from a Red Drive / Cf Card (over fw800) to another FW800 drive is considerably slower than copying from the Red Drive / CF Card to a drive using e-sata.

This becomes extremely important when there is more than one camera on Set and You want to go home at the end of the day 'on time'.

Besides those reasons... you cannot playback higher quality proxies... Over Fw800 you definately cant playback _H proxies... Plus think of encoding times... A Full debayer of a Full days clips? ...would take forever.
 
And lets not forget...

And lets not forget...

You may be using the firewire 800 for something else concurrently like capture or convert/display via and IOHD, or have a secondary raid one backup for double writes.

Do you really want to format that card/drive before you have a second copy?

My broadband connectivity, CF reader, and pci-direct raid attachment are all EC34 based.

You can't do most of that on a firewire port.

It was a very bad call IMHO.

Steve
 
Brent J. Craig said:
I have used my DVD drive 10 times.

I use my Expresscard slot daily.
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Too bad Apple puts us into "single digit" - hence unimportant group of customers.

Personally, I don't see the point of having DVD drive in a laptop in 2009. Maybe it's just me, but it looks like targeted group of new MBP customers is bunch of teenagers who want a cool looking aluminum notebook from Apple and like to watch DVD's on it. And "Pro" brand is way cooler looking engraving.

I have no problem with Apple's spreading of it's customer base, what is totally lame is limiting options to power users (again). Like putting a graphic card which is capable of 10bit out, but not in a Mac.
Brilliant move. A+.

I trust that is also Apple choosing what is best for me.

With regularly being late to the graphics table - and just a diet snack on it (no SLI and 10bit etc), with unreliable gamma - Apple PR can speak all they want.
Not to mention that all 8 cores in our Mac Pros are still not put to full use, one year after. This is ridiculous. It's like seliing a car with 8 cylinders but only four working.
A+ again, Apple.

This ExpressCard issue is yet another A+.
That's why the rant. Totally deserved.
 
Pawel Achtel said:
Long live PC :)
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Yes, we need the PC!

If everyone switched to Apple, the world economy would collapse as millions of IT techs became redundant and thousands of software developers specializing in attempting to cure the pandemic of PC goblins went out of business.

Of course the increased productivity gained from using Macs might offset some of the economic devastation.

Good shooting and best regards to all!

Leo
 
Remember to leave feedback for Apple on their support page (and by "leave feedback," I don't mean a flaming bag of feces...)!

No problems here with the keyboard or graphics, though I can't shrug off the Express34 omission on the 15". If they had a sagging point of economic return in the Ex34 slot, they could easily give prospective buyers some options for filling that slot with something that the person would use more regularly (SD card reader, AT&T 3g wireless card, CF, FW). Just throw it in there on the configuration page in between Aperture preinstalled and miniDisplayPort-to-DVI connector.

If Apple nixed the Ex34 slot on the 15" because of the new battery design, I'd like to hear it...

True, the 17" doesn't seem as bulky as some other full-size laptops, but when you're taking it with you in a backpack or over the shoulder every day, there will be times you wish you could have something just a little smaller. The video applications point becomes less significant when you can hook the 15" up to a giant external display for desktop use.

So write to them, and be sure to keep it civil and rational in pointing to their short-sighted decision-making.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html
 
A. Clint Litton said:
If Apple nixed the Ex34 slot on the 15" because of the new battery design, I'd like to hear it...
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I'm 99.5% sure that the new battery had nothing specific to do with it. No reason they couldn't make a battery that would fit around that slot space. Assuming the slot wouldn't still fit anyway.

I like the suggestion above about Apple offering some other options besides the SD card slot. If Apple would give us an eSATA port instead of the ExpressCard port, that would be an acceptable compromise since I have an eSATA card in that slot 90% of the time.
 
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