Return-Path: Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4591002 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:33:10 +0100 Received: by iadj38 with SMTP id j38so3637658iad.28 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:40:13 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.77.226 with SMTP id v2mr16974030igw.12.1326840013538; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:40:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.28.33 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:40:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:40:13 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] The Future of the Mac Pro in Video Post From: Brian Higgins To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8f234f39ae451b04b6c10339 --e89a8f234f39ae451b04b6c10339 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Regardless of the definition you use, our segment of the market still exists. No matter how much Apple might hope we all become wedding videographers (no offense, wedding guys/gals), some of us really do need the "oomph" that workstations provide. Thunderbolt to me seems like a solution to a problem none of us really had. By the time you hook up a gpu expansions chassis, extra monitor and storage to your laptop, it's taking up just as much space as the Mac Pro was. Thunderbolt does help Apple streamline its product lineup by bringing workstation perhiperals to the iMac and laptop worlds, but...so what? -bH On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jim Kanter wrote: > I don't think that Apple is walking away from the 'Pro' market so much > as they are redefining it for themselves and dancing to a new tune. > > How's that saying go, "When elephants dance the world trembles"? > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to > -- brian higgins | senior vfx artist Sol Design 312.706.5500 higgins@soldesignfx.com soldesignfx.com --e89a8f234f39ae451b04b6c10339 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Regardless of the definition you use, our segment of the market still exist= s. No matter how much Apple might hope we all become wedding videographers = (no offense, wedding guys/gals), some of us really do need the "oomph&= quot; that workstations provide.

Thunderbolt to me seems like a solution to a problem none of us really = had.=A0 By the time you hook up a gpu expansions chassis, extra monitor and= storage to your laptop, it's taking up just as much space as the Mac P= ro was.=A0 Thunderbolt does help Apple streamline its product lineup by bri= nging workstation perhiperals to the iMac and laptop worlds, but...so what?= =A0

-bH

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:17 PM, = Jim Kanter <jim@d-fi= lm.com> wrote:
I don't think that Apple is walking away from the 'Pro' market = so much
as they are redefining it for themselves and dancing to a new tune.

How's that saying go, "When elephants dance the world trembles&quo= t;?

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