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Apple's announcement...

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Good thoughts Jim, I hope you're right!
 
The writing has been on the wall for a at least a year, Apple is going no where with the Mac pro market.
It just that all macpro users are have been having a hard time excepting it.

But I still believe and hope.

Yusuf Thakur
VFX,Dubai.
www.vfxme.com
 
Jannard said:
My 1st computer was a Mac in 1984. I have never owned anything but a Mac. I am an Apple collector. I knew Steve. And I am a huge Sir Jony Ive fan. Huge...

Today's announcement was certainly a setback. No question about it. The appearance is that Apple is abandoning the professional. No 17" Mac Book Pro and no real new Mac Pro are signals that will shake the core of the Apple professional.

But I don't believe this is the end. My bet is that Apple is just taking a bit more time to get it right. I spent several years in Apple purgatory when Steve was gone and Sculley (and others) completely screwed up Apple. I expect this moment in time to be just another brief moment in Apple purgatory.

There are lots of smart guys at Apple. Too smart to give up the professional. Professionals are the front row. They influence the "rest". Apple gets this.

My bet (and I have no inside knowledge whatsoever) is that Apple is feverishly working on a Mac Pro with full 4K graphics support, USB3 and Thunderbolt, along with a new 17" (or greater) Mac Book Pro.

If I am wrong, Apple clearly knows the consequences. I just don't think that Apple is ready to give up what they have worked so hard to achieve... the loyal support of the professional.

Jim
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I hope you are right...because they do like the sales of those little devices they sell to the masses.
 
Jarred Land said:
This is what I am afraid of.. and the worst part is you are completely right.

I like to judge the strength of a brand by where a companies logo ends up. Stickers. Not the strength of their stock.. not the strength of their bank account, but to judge the strength of a companies brand * more specifically how much a brand is loved ) by stickers.

Companies that have the passionate support of their customers, to the extent that the customers are willing to put stickers of the companies logo on their most prized possessions, says a tremendous amount about the company.

Think about how rare that is. ( and think how incredibly rare it is that Jim did it twice )

Apple used to be like that. Really. You used to see people drive around with that little white apple sticker that you would get with a new mac on the back of their car , and being a mac user even seeing that on some other car you would feel kinda proud.

I haven't seen a new one of those little stickers placed on a car for awhile.. nor had that proud feeling.

I just want those days to come back.
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Hmm, interesting perspective, never thought of it like this!

And then I look down next to me and see that I did this like 3 yrs ago :-)
 

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Agree with your opinion Jim, and with the introduction of this Macbook Pro i feel more confident in the future. To me it seems like theis Macbook Pro its employing the very best things we like about Apple- performance, design, integration. By using less 3rd party parts it really allowed them to make a leap in laptop design, in my view. And it looks very "pro" oriented. Not so sure about the sd card slot and if that isn't taking the place of, for example, an optical audio input or pcie slot space, but 2 thunderbolt and 2 usb3 slots cover this odd design choice somehow. Will Adobe CS6 and Red Cine X take advantage of those extra pixels for an updated "Retina" Preview? i've just ordered one of those and would be great to see and edit my red footage in its almost 3K glory...
 
heh heh love you Shawn... now you know just how much you putting that sticker there means to us.

Remember.. true story... Jim and I used to hand make every sticker we sold on RED.com while we were waiting for the Red One to show up.

Seriously.

He would line the big roll of 3m paper on the plotter and print each one out and then cut each one and i would laminate them, we would do that in the middle of the night, each and every week as we waited for some code to cook or some hardware to come out of the oven. Pretty Crazy.

So all of you that have those old stickers, there was ALOT of love put into each and every one of them.
 
Unfortunately, FCPX was an early indication of whats to come and the fact that they didn't rectify that bad move soon after the echoed complaints it became clear where the future of apple resides; in the pockets of their i-consumer. And here we are and as much as we refuse to accept it.... it is the beginning of the end, and it started with the breadcrumb tower upgrade to give us thread of hope, followed by the untimely death of the 17"... I will miss you 17" *pour drink on the ground.

Its time to move on to a new pro laptop... perhaps a RED one? *wink, wink :-)
 
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heh heh love you Shawn... now you know just how much you putting that sticker there means to us.

Remember.. true story... Jim and I used to hand make every sticker we sold on RED.com while we were waiting for the Red One to show up.

Seriously.

He would line the big roll of 3m paper on the plotter and print each one out and then cut each one and i would laminate them, we would do that in the middle of the night, each and every week as we waited for some code to cook or some hardware to come out of the oven. Pretty Crazy.

So all of you that have those old stickers, there was ALOT of love put into each and every one of them.
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Awesome!
 
Jarred Land said:
heh heh love you Shawn... now you know just how much you putting that sticker there means to us.

Remember.. true story... Jim and I used to hand make every sticker we sold on RED.com while we were waiting for the Red One to show up.

Seriously.

He would line the big roll of 3m paper on the plotter and print each one out and then cut each one and i would laminate them, we would do that in the middle of the night, each and every week as we waited for some code to cook or some hardware to come out of the oven. Pretty Crazy.

So all of you that have those old stickers, there was ALOT of love put into each and every one of them.
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Heh, I've been shooting my TVC's and short films for the Macau Arts Festival with your Red Epic Cap (black) religiously on... and I'm not even a cap person! :) (and you can check out my vimeo page as proof!)
 
Jarred Land said:
heh heh love you Shawn... now you know just how much you putting that sticker there means to us.

Remember.. true story... Jim and I used to hand make every sticker we sold on RED.com while we were waiting for the Red One to show up.

Seriously.

He would line the big roll of 3m paper on the plotter and print each one out and then cut each one and i would laminate them, we would do that in the middle of the night, each and every week as we waited for some code to cook or some hardware to come out of the oven. Pretty Crazy.

So all of you that have those old stickers, there was ALOT of love put into each and every one of them.
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That is seriously one of the most AWESOME things I've ever read.
 
Jarred Land said:
heh heh love you Shawn... now you know just how much you putting that sticker there means to us.

Remember.. true story... Jim and I used to hand make every sticker we sold on RED.com while we were waiting for the Red One to show up.

Seriously.

He would line the big roll of 3m paper on the plotter and print each one out and then cut each one and i would laminate them, we would do that in the middle of the night, each and every week as we waited for some code to cook or some hardware to come out of the oven. Pretty Crazy.

So all of you that have those old stickers, there was ALOT of love put into each and every one of them.
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Make more stickers of the expansive kind. We got more places to put them than you can imagine. So cut down on the over worked delivery boxes and put some Stickers in there instead. Would be nice with a big (This epic belongs to:....) and such. Or just stickers that we could put on our pellicases, saying "RED CLUTCH", "RPP's" Etc.

Like the nice cut foam in the boxes though keep that work up.
 
The first computer I bought was a Mac and I don't see myself going to a PC....ever. If I want to run windows I run it on my Mac...or Linux...and then back to Mac OS. Hopefully Apple will see the reaction from their customers and change things up a bit. That's one of the cool things I like about RED. For the most part if something gets brought up and sounds like a good idea and even remotely possible it seems to at least have some people working on it.

But with that said where is my freakin timelapse mode for my Epic.
 
It seems that both an engineer and Tim Cook himself said that the new Mac Pro will come for 2013.
Source : http://www.macgeneration.com/news/voir/248172/2013-l-annee-des-nouveaux-mac-pro (in french, sorry)

David Pogue from the NY Times said that after the Keynote, an Apple engineer (or "important people", don't know of to translate "cadre" in english) saif that they were working on new Mac Pro models with a new design for a launch date probably in 2013.
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In a mail from Tim Cook to a MacRumors reader : « Our pro customers are very important for us... Don't worry we are working for something really great for next year. ».
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Anyway to me, 2013 is kinda late... But better than nothing ? :/
 
Hugely disappointed too. Been a Mac-only individual for 10y+, influencing others around me. My MacPro (2006) was in dire need of a successor. I'm keeping it for everyday stuff but ordered a Win beast for Video work.
So disappointed.
 
I am very excited about the direction they are heading in and I believe (hope) they are cooking up a mac pro as well...but the future of computing is going mobile and apple is always looking forward.
 
I got really excited about that as well, but then i re-read what David Pogue said :

"Many Apple observers also wonder if Apple thinks that desktop computers are dead, since not a word was said about the iMac and Mac Pro. An executive did assure me, however, that new models and new designs are under way, probably for release in 2013"

Dont forget the Imac in that sentence and the topic being desktops which the imac counts as... it could very well just mean that there are new iMacs coming, not necessarily mac pros. And Tim Cook didnt really say anything either in that email.

Boy is it funny how hard we all really try and find some good news between the lines. We are a desperate bunch :)

I have already switch to the dark side.. but i promise, if a tower and proper notebook is released in the near future, I will get back on the apple horse faster than it took me to write this post :)
 
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