Re: I guess it's So Long and Thanks for all the Fish!

[Dominic Deacon] "Since the release of FCPX I've played with a bunch of the others and found that they're not just competitive with Final Cut 7 but they make it look archaic in many ways. That video is a great example of the advantages on some of the other platforms. On top of which they are just so much faster."

I could have quoted any number of folks above for a similar reply.

I've owned Macs since February of 1984, but when I was working for a developer who was using only Macs but starting to move into GPU acceleration, we were all blown away by the performance of a 5-year old PC that had been gathering dust in the corner. It was anywhere from 4 to 10 times faster than a top-of-the-line Mac.

Not for processing with the CPU of course. A new Mac beat a 5-year old PC running away. But as processing power increasingly moves to the graphics card, Mac users like me and many of you will find ourselves falling further and further behind. Apple has never yet been interested in supporting the very fastest graphics cards on the market.

Anyone taking bets on whether the next Macs will be the first in history to commit to supporting the fastest graphics cards on the market?

I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro, but well aware of what HP and others are doing with balls out GPU speed. Hey, and have you seen those HP laptops with the DreamColor monitors built in?

Apologies for making similar observations on other threads, but I think that this is the biggest sea change in our industry's history. Desktop video started on Macs, and Macs will always be part of it, but this is the first time that video production pros -- traditionally some Mac's hardest-core fans -- are looking at moving to PCs for exactly the same reasons they have used Macs: heavy-duty, bang for buck, committed to pros.

(Disclosure I shouldn't need to make, but will anyway: yes, HP is a COW advertiser. Apple has been too...although it has been years since they've advertised in any pro-oriented publications or sites. I'm speaking strictly here as a money=mouth kinda guy, on my own behalf, and not for the COW.)