@Tim Wilson

I couldn't agree with you more, Tim, that IF YOU ARE DOING VIDEO ONLY a tower does not seem necessary nor advantageous. But for those of us who work in many types of media, there is still an advantage to desktop towers.

Trying to do Creative COW Magazine for example, on a laptop would be a nightmare. Not just because of the screen but because when you deal with 300dpi hi-rex CMYK files you need some ponies under the hood. The new top-of-the-line iMac I bought craps pretty hard when dealing with huge images. It works fine on video. No so fine on 300dpi CMYK files -- especially some of the ones that are PDFs with many layers. That's when I go back to my old tower, the one I have named after Lady & The Tramp's "Old Reliable." ;o)

I'll give up my towers when they pry them from my cold dead fingers.

And while I do indeed understand why FCPX is the future (I especially LOVE the idea of database driven editing), I think that the way that Apple handled its roll-out -- and the ensuing way that the market viewed the messaging -- to be one of the biggest corporate blunders that I have ever seen in my 40 years of marketing.

But hey, that's just my opinion...

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC
Publisher, Creative COW Magazine
A 2011 FOLIO: 40 honoree as one of the 40 most influential publishers in America
http://www.creativecow.net


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