Oh, one more thing...

Umm, nope.

[Chris Harlan] "Well, yeah. As I'm poking around it looks like the 17" MBP is dead."

Shame. I was very interested in an upgrade.

It tells you all you need to know about FCPX really.

Liam Hall
Director/DoP/Editor
http://www.liamhall.net

[Liam Hall] "It tells you all you need to know about FCPX really."

I agree. (tho likely not from the viewpoint you were intending! ; )

FCP-X is clearly the flagship Apple editing solution for today and for the future. They're building it to scale up with every increase in performance and technology that the Apple team develops. They release a laptop with a serious resolution enhancement by way of a retina display - and X can take full advantage of it right out of the gate. Sweet!

I couldn't be happier that I've already learned to swim in the FCP-X sea. Reminds me of my first trip to St. Maarten. The water is wonderful and the view in every direction absolutely outstanding.

I know a lot of you do work that requires you to keep working inside traditional offices. And it's good that there are more traditional equipment vendors ready to meet your needs.

But I'm fully ready for a new, more mobile life with a toolset that doesn't tie me to the same desk, seeing the same cubicle walls every day of the rest of my working life.

Great times indeed!

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor

[Bill Davis] "I know a lot of you do work that requires you to keep working inside traditional offices. And it's good that there are more traditional equipment vendors ready to meet your needs."

I'm glad your happy for us Bill. But some of us are stuck with Apple because of workflow issues and can't take advantage of all the goodies that are out there. For me this day is worse than last year as far as immediate financial implications go. But I'm mollified knowing that you feel like you're in the Caribbean. I can almost smell the hibiscus.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin' attached to nothin'
"Deciding the spine is the process of editing" F. Bieberkopf

[Chris Harlan] "The customizability of Pr on a laptop just blows X away.
"

Then if the broader market values "customizability" over what X offers, then X usage will diminish and Pr will benefit.

If not, then whoever values that feature highly - like you - will Drive Pr and guys like me will Drive X.

And hopefully, we'll both get where we want to go in our own style.

Nothing wrong with that!

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor

I hear you. I've pretty much already decided to go PC when I've used up my current Mac Pro, but I love my 17" MBP and will hate to lose that. Oh well, they're just tools.

Chris

[Oliver Peters] "The reality is that they probably can't produce 17" Retina displays in any sort of yield or at a realistic price point."

Don't care about retina on the 17"...just wanted USB3.0, ExpressCard, and Thunderbolt with Ivy Bridge and NVIDIA 600M.

Why express card, dual thunderbolt is perfect replacement for express card.

[Oliver Peters] "The reality is that they probably can't produce 17" Retina displays in any sort of yield or at a realistic price point. The 15" is 2880 wide at 220dpi. That's a 30" screen crammed down to a laptop size.
"

I get it. I just like the extra real estate in terms of size.

[Bill Davis] "[Chris Harlan] "I get it. I just like the extra real estate in terms of size."

Isn't that instantly solved by the Thunderbolt Cinema Display?
"

Bill, you just blow my mind sometimes.

[Bill Davis] "[Chris Harlan] "Bill, you just blow my mind sometimes."

Not sure why, but happy to contribute, I guess.

Still not sure why having excellent resolution on a laptop - AND the ability to plug it into your desktop via TB and get the benefit of a larger display isn't a very useful capability - but perhaps we just think differently."

Are you seriously asking? Because I will tell you. You may not like what you hear, though.

[Liam Hall] "You'll have to sit very close to the laptop to get full value out of that display...
"

Yup.

Perhaps you're in the wrong profession if your eyes aren't that good. Have you even played with an iPad 3? Open up a photo on it and hold it next to the same photo on your laptop. Even better, hold up a website of text for comparison. As I type right now on a 1080p monitor, the text is fairly small and fuzzy. Fuzzy sucks. Fuzzy makes stuff look out of focus that isn't. Fuzzy creates tons of posts here about he viewer/canvas looking crappy.

[Bret Williams] "Have you even played with an iPad 3?"

There is a huge difference with the display on the iPad 3. So much better than the 2 (I have the 3).

[Liam Hall] "Not sure if that aimed at me or not Chris, but to clarify, my comment was tongue-in-cheek; having 2880 pixels on a 15" laptop is not the same as having 2880 pixels on a 30" monitor. Same number of pixels, but doing different jobs. Oh, and size matters..."

Yep.