Apple Sucks and so does Adobe
Thursday, March 09, 2006
I would have bought the macbook pro the day it came out. Even if I had ordered the machine and paid cash, it would not have shipped until February 15 at the soonest. Today in mid March, I finally get an email that says "Macbook Pro Has Arrived".
Apple is full of shit and they know it.
I am SO Glad I didn't buy that machine! After the initial release, I read about the schedule for Universal release of Final Cut Studio and Aperature . Late March they say it will be done... yawn. What good is an apple computer without the exclusive apple software? Final Cut Studio is the reason I invested in their expensive hardware. I had to return the first 3 powerbooks for out-of-the-box lemon issues. The fourth had serious issues that required me to backup my data and send it in for 10 days. Meanwhile I bought a G4 mini that SUCKED worse than my pentium 3 under load. I was going to give it to my mom, but even an old lady should not be subjected to such terrible performance. So the new mini is out and supposedly much faster... great.
Two days ago, I go with father to buy mom the new Intel Mac Mini. She uses photoshop and needs to get into aperature. On the way to the store, it occurs to me... Adobe has not released a universal version of anything. Fortunately, the guys at the Mac Super Store in San Luis Obispo were in the know. Apparently, Adobe has NO PLANS to patch CS2 for Universal. These updates will be included with the next shipment, CS3. The expected release date is sometime in 2007!
I must stop and ask myself, Who is Apple's target PC market? DIGITAL MEDIA PROFESSIONALS! Why the hell would they put out all this fancy hardware when NONE of the most important software is ready? I don't care about iLife06, it's useless to me. And I can still do all the coding i need on a G4 powerbook. The fact of the matter is that anyone looking to get into the apple platform for serious Film or Digital Photography work must still purchase a G5! Yeah, yeah, the problem will solve itself in a year. Big deal.
Before I realized the lameness of this predicament, I did a price comparison on each apple machine currently shipping based on the minimum spec that I wouuld buy:
G5 2.5 QUAD
Specifications
* 2.5GHz Quad-core PowerPC G5
* 2GB 533 DDR2 Non ECC SDRAM- 2x1GB
* 250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB SDRAM
* 16x SuperDrive DL (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse - U.S English
* Mac OS X - U.S. English
* Accessory kit
Subtotal $3,599.00
-451
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MACBOOK PRO 2.16 Duo
Specifications
* 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo
* 1GB 667 DDR2 - 1 SO-DIMM
* 100GB Serial ATA drive @ 5400 rpm
* SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* AirPort Extreme Card & Bluetooth
* Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
* AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook Pro/PowerBook (w/or w/o
Display) - Auto-enroll
* 15.4-inch TFT Display
$3148
-799
---------------------------------------------
G5 2.0 DUO
Specifications
* 2GHz Dual-core PowerPC G5
* 2GB 533 DDR2 Non ECC SDRAM - 2x1GB
* 160GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB SDRAM
* 16x SuperDrive double-layer (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
* Mac OS X - U.S. English
Subtotal $2,349.00
-381
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IMAC INTEL 2.0 DUO
Specifications
* 1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 1x1GB
* 250GB Serial ATA drive
* ATI Radeon X1600/128MB VRAM
* SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
* Keyboard & Mighty Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
* Accessory kit
* AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll
* 20-inch widescreen LCD
* 2GHz Intel Core Duo
* AirPort Extreme
* Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Subtotal $1,968.00
-870
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MAC MINI 1.66 Duo
Specifications
* 1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x512
* 100GB Serial ATA drive
* SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Mac OS X - U.S. English
* AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac mini (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
* 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo
* Intel GMA950 graphics
* Accessory kit
Subtotal
$1,098.00 - cheapest solution... but still fucked!
Apple is full of shit and they know it.
I am SO Glad I didn't buy that machine! After the initial release, I read about the schedule for Universal release of Final Cut Studio and Aperature . Late March they say it will be done... yawn. What good is an apple computer without the exclusive apple software? Final Cut Studio is the reason I invested in their expensive hardware. I had to return the first 3 powerbooks for out-of-the-box lemon issues. The fourth had serious issues that required me to backup my data and send it in for 10 days. Meanwhile I bought a G4 mini that SUCKED worse than my pentium 3 under load. I was going to give it to my mom, but even an old lady should not be subjected to such terrible performance. So the new mini is out and supposedly much faster... great.
Two days ago, I go with father to buy mom the new Intel Mac Mini. She uses photoshop and needs to get into aperature. On the way to the store, it occurs to me... Adobe has not released a universal version of anything. Fortunately, the guys at the Mac Super Store in San Luis Obispo were in the know. Apparently, Adobe has NO PLANS to patch CS2 for Universal. These updates will be included with the next shipment, CS3. The expected release date is sometime in 2007!
I must stop and ask myself, Who is Apple's target PC market? DIGITAL MEDIA PROFESSIONALS! Why the hell would they put out all this fancy hardware when NONE of the most important software is ready? I don't care about iLife06, it's useless to me. And I can still do all the coding i need on a G4 powerbook. The fact of the matter is that anyone looking to get into the apple platform for serious Film or Digital Photography work must still purchase a G5! Yeah, yeah, the problem will solve itself in a year. Big deal.
Before I realized the lameness of this predicament, I did a price comparison on each apple machine currently shipping based on the minimum spec that I wouuld buy:
G5 2.5 QUAD
Specifications
* 2.5GHz Quad-core PowerPC G5
* 2GB 533 DDR2 Non ECC SDRAM- 2x1GB
* 250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB SDRAM
* 16x SuperDrive DL (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse - U.S English
* Mac OS X - U.S. English
* Accessory kit
Subtotal $3,599.00
-451
---------------------------------------------
MACBOOK PRO 2.16 Duo
Specifications
* 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo
* 1GB 667 DDR2 - 1 SO-DIMM
* 100GB Serial ATA drive @ 5400 rpm
* SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* AirPort Extreme Card & Bluetooth
* Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
* AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook Pro/PowerBook (w/or w/o
Display) - Auto-enroll
* 15.4-inch TFT Display
$3148
-799
---------------------------------------------
G5 2.0 DUO
Specifications
* 2GHz Dual-core PowerPC G5
* 2GB 533 DDR2 Non ECC SDRAM - 2x1GB
* 160GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB SDRAM
* 16x SuperDrive double-layer (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
* Mac OS X - U.S. English
Subtotal $2,349.00
-381
--------------------------------------------
IMAC INTEL 2.0 DUO
Specifications
* 1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 1x1GB
* 250GB Serial ATA drive
* ATI Radeon X1600/128MB VRAM
* SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
* Keyboard & Mighty Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
* Accessory kit
* AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll
* 20-inch widescreen LCD
* 2GHz Intel Core Duo
* AirPort Extreme
* Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Subtotal $1,968.00
-870
--------------------------------------------
MAC MINI 1.66 Duo
Specifications
* 1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x512
* 100GB Serial ATA drive
* SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* Mac OS X - U.S. English
* AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac mini (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
* 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo
* Intel GMA950 graphics
* Accessory kit
Subtotal
$1,098.00 - cheapest solution... but still fucked!
2 Comments:
Have you made a decision yet? I'm debating about the iMac 20in 2Gz option for myself...
About the apple... My mom ended up buying a G5 2.0 duo (2.5GB RAM), my dad bought an intel mini (Maxed out) and my roomate bought the intel imac 20.
We bought the G5 because we knew that photoshop was mom's primary application and that she would have to wait for the 2007 adobe release. Initially, I noticed it was way faster than my G4 powerbook - as expected, but Aperture still lagged on both systems. Hopefully when I update to 1.1, aperture should work much better on either chip.
I haven't been back to the parent's house yet to play with the mini, nor have I installed photoshop on my roomate's imac to test it under rosetta. I did manage to find a copy of final cut 5.1 though and it worked, but not without bugs. We also installed windows and premiere to be able to access older video projects on the external drives.
At any rate, I'm convinced. I would gladly trade in my powerbook for a macbook and deal with the occasional glitch.
To be sure, I have a 500MB panorama of monday's protest that I've been working on. My powerbook crawls to a halt almost. I'll try and install photoshop on the iMac and then running a few filters to see what happens.
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