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Re: New Macbook - Deliberately hobbled?
by Andrew Kimery on Oct 16, 2008 at 6:15:32 pm

[Winston A. Cely] "Apple's spent a lot of time and money creating iApps that don't need the bandwidth that their (and others) pro apps need. Using an external drive for your video with iApps is really not necessary so there's really no need for FW in that respect. "
The iApps, and Final Cut Express, actually need as much or more storage bandwidth when dealing w/consumer camera formats than the ProApps. iMovie has no native support for any HD camera format (unlike FCP which supports HDV natively) so it converts both AVCHD and HDV into AIC. While this makes life easier on the CPU during editing it balloons the file size to around 50gigs an hour for 1080i60. How many people would recommend editing a 100Mbit codec on a laptop's internal 5400 RPM system drive? I think it's fairly clear that Apple removed a ubiquitous feature from it's low-end laptops to protect it's high-end laptops to the detriment of all potential users. So long Target Disk Mode, so long easy to use Migration Assistant, so long convenient bus-powered HDDs.

Speaking of protecting itself, now that Apple is gone grown more into consumer electronics and media distribution they are starting to 'pull a Sony' and hamstringing one aspect of their business to project another. For example, Apple's stance on Blu-ray. Back in the day Apple was one of the first to make DVD burners available and a leader in desktop DVD authoring. But when asked about Blu-ray Steve jobs recently said, “It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace.” Which of course means Apple wants you to use the iTMS to get your entertainment even if that drives Pro users away from the Mac platform. If Roxio can figure out the 'complex' licensing issues I'm sure Apple can too. Apple is willing to live on the bleeding edge of consumer camera technology by only supporting USB based cameras on it's low-end laptops but when it comes to Blu-ray they are taking a wait and see approach? Please...


/rant


-A



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