If you follow us regularly, surely you have read more than one article in which we have informed you not only of the virtues offered by the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, but also the large number of problems that these terminals are presenting. But leaving these types of problems aside, it seems that the Mac user community has not seen favorably the limitation of RAM, the lack of standard ports, graphics problems, battery ... among other new models, since the amount of memory is the same as 5 years ago, although it is faster and is show that the capabilities of the new Macs have been vastly improved.
Many of our readers use OS X due to bad experiences they had in the past with the Windows platformWindows 10 post-launch problems have almost completely disappeared and one user of OS X and Windows 10 says so on a daily basis. Those blue screens of death or those reboots or crashes have disappeared, as long as our PC does not suffer from a defective component such as a USB port or a memory module, the main problems of crashes or restarts in Windows.
According to Microsoft, the program that launched a few weeks ago in which it offered a discount for the purchase of a Surface, whether it was the Pro model or the Book model, is showing a large number of stakeholders who have decided to give Windows another chance after the launch of the long-awaited Macbook Pro with Touchbar, which has apparently left the eager users waiting for it cold.
In addition, after the announcement of the Surface Studio, spectacular AIO that the Redmond-based company presented a few weeks ago, sure to attract the interest of many of the users They want to give Windows a chance again, now that it is the company itself that designs and manufactures its own devices, as Apple has been doing for many years.
Unfortunately, the pro component does NOT ONLY include video editing ... much less the only use of the optimized FinalCutPro X ...
Although today's computer architectures have evolved, the professional market requires more and more power as well. By itself in video we have gone from working from PAL to FullHD and now in 4K 5k ... and more ...
As an example and to cite only the After Effects type composition theme, a composition of a few layers in 4k not only requires a lot of memory and storage, but also a beastly processing to be able to move with a minimum of fluency and for the final processing. ex: (1 4k layer is equivalent to 4 FullHD layers… As an example, work with 6 4K layers = 24 FullHD layers). Not to mention working in this format generating 3D renders ...
The help of graphics cards for this is an advance today, but unfortunately most professional software only works on NVIDIA cards supporting CUDA. . . and Apple does not include these graphics cards in any of its computers.
The professional field requires more and more power, and the 3D market and its derivatives are constantly growing.
There is still a vast world where calculations are needed by CPU and not just GPU ... and where Apple no longer allows you to work professionally for not proposing suitable machines. iMacs? ... laughing.
I find it funny how Apple puts a Pro label on materials that seek design more than efficiency. Where his professional potential is impeded by the limitations of his design, and how his arrogance dictates how we have to work and with his material ...
There is a pedantic phenomenon that even Microsoft and other builders in the line of Apple tend to follow, which seems to me a mistake on a professional level. Designing very beautiful machines and ahead of their time.
Let me explain with a simple example:
How to put in a very nice but very thin screen a computer that allows to have memory, CPU, Graphics, Ports, Storage powerful enough for professional use? Simply IMPOSSIBLE with current technology.
Why have ALL Apple laptops always overheated? or to generalize, almost all of their machines have had this problem when it comes to really processing ... latest iMacs and MacPro ... but NOT their old MacPro towers ... their designs are not adapted to what is intended ...
You will tell me, just go to PC ... well yes! ... but what happens with the bet of all the maqueros to believe in a simple and effective stable operating system ... and where people have invested time and money in software and hardware that must be replaced because they only work on Mac ... not to mention ease and experience gained… ???
FUCK!, And ENOUGH ... but unfortunately ... and I extend the term, until the summer where the range of Intel processors that theoretically incorporate MacPros have to appear, ... but if there is no convincing PRO proposal from Apple ... not be a consumer laptop or iMac ... NOW, as a Professional ... I give up!
I don't know if I was unlucky ... or that I simply bet wrong! But as an image professional, in addition to the current hardware problem ... I come from sticks after sticks from Apple ...
In my study at the Professional and daily level, I used:
Color, for color correction, Apple killed it!
FinalCutPro,… no comment regarding the transition to FCPX!
Aperture… I kill him!
My main software was SHAKE,… it killed him!
and currently many software that I use for both 3D and effects only support
NVIDIA and Apple cards NO!
are not enough reasons to be up to ... .. Apple?
I'm already tired ... and honestly as a maquero that I was, I give up!
I know users who use Macs for video editing, but as I have seen, your needs go far beyond traditional video editing at high resolutions.
It seems that Apple is only using the surname Pro for all those YouTubers who are dedicated to creating videos of a few minutes to upload the internet.
Excellent your point of view.
Greetings.
I still use mac, but every time I think more like Ignacio, and it is not a position that makes me happy, but I have used apple since its inception (apple II) and I have always been a big fan of this philosophy, but I have to admit that I have been critical witness of this constant change from what was his bet on certain values to a naked proposal for a consumer product.
Products that seem worked in their design have few profound changes in their content, the OSs get away with many bugs and we have to do the polishing to get it out of the beta, and also bring changes that are not really important, they do fulfill the purpose of to continue promoting the sales cycle, because it forces you to have to change your machine ... in short, the subject is broad and it is worth reviewing it in detail, in another moment with more time I will share more with you, but it doesn't take long that I think about leave mac, because deep down I believe that as users and for what we pay we deserve something else, finally we would have to form a large group to decide what we need, hire the necessary services and create a product that thinks about the user and not only in your pocket, in the long run you would have to consider alternative options to stop being at the mercy of those who are part of a world that is also not sustainable in the long term.
It happens exactly the same. It reflects what I think too.
Jojojo I get stunned, change mac for windows 10? No more screenshots? Jojojo tell that to my computer that after trying, just trying, to start it with a pendrive with windows 10 installed, the windows 7 boot was loaded and it was difficult to recover it. If that has only been connecting a skewer, or imagine how the rest will be ...
I stay with windows 7 which is the best of all, and with a real start menu !!