And... a huge, flashy, overpriced gaming laptop is the solution?
Not one of the fifty thousand "mobile workstation" class machines out there (Z-Book, Thinkpad P-Series, Dell Precision)?
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And... a huge, flashy, overpriced gaming laptop is the solution?
Not one of the fifty thousand "mobile workstation" class machines out there (Z-Book, Thinkpad P-Series, Dell Precision)?
Problem solved. Use the Asus. Better yet write Asus and ask them to make laptops that look like Macs. Ask them why they cannot met your demands and why they continue to make ugly two inch thick laptops out of plastic.
I have worked in tv and film for a while. I have had these discussions with people high up in the industry. There where always systems like Quantel Painbox, Jaleo, Autodesk(Linux), Media100, Avid, Mosaic that filled a need at a time. Some are still around some are long gone.
I think the film industry, especially indies and low budget films where spoiled by Apple and it's offerings for quite a while. Apple has absolutely taken a different route from the modern film, tv and video landscape. Making 500 billion dollars off of iPhones can do that to a company.
But for me who saw Apple products as a great hope and saw their commitment to modern film making all but gone, it's time for us to move on.
An i7 PC with a single GTX 1080 has more horsepower than a quantel machine that cost over 400k 10 years ago. If you want to stay on OS X, their are ways to do it, but this might be your last window anyway. Apple is committed to iOS and phones and mobile gadgets more than desktop computers. Example they will not help make GTX 1080 drivers for OS X.
If your in the industry you know the story and content is king, and it doesn't matter if you made in on Linux, windows, or ChromeOS. The software and hardware are just tools.
Get a i7 PC, with a GTX 1080 and Adobe CC. Make your art. Tell your story. Maybe an iPad Pro or MacBook for writing that story. MacOS and Apples commitment to modern film is all but gone, but that is how the industry works. I can still love watching 2001 a space odyssey, even though every piece of equipment used to make it is in a museum or a landfill.
As someone else noted, those official Apple forums are only for peer to peer support.
They have a policy of deleting posts which are about anything else, or which say anything bad against Apple. It's like living in Big Brother 1984. No Badspeak about Apple is allowed
The only time that policy was lifted that I know about, was in 2007 when Apple dropped the first iPhone price by two hundred dollars only a few months after its sales launch. Man, were the first iPhone buyers ticked off!!!
Early adopters, who felt that Apple had taken advantage of their loyalty, started posting angry messages like crazy. The moderators tried to delete all the posts, and removed literally hundreds before they were overwhelmed by the huge tidal wave of anger. I know, I was there. They finally gave up and let everyone vent their feelings without the usual censorship.
People also called and emailed Apple to express their disappointment. By the next day, Jobs had written an apology and was giving the early adopters a hundred dollar Apple store credit. It was an incredible display of the power of upset mass consumers.
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True..... No one on the forums from Apple reads these. Only Apple users.
I too would email Tim, but you if u'r after replies, u'd get better response on a forum if u tone it down........ I never get replies from Tim cook ever, perhaps only one out of a dozen emails.
Sometimes just re-thinking and re--wording stuff can make all the difference to the same question asked on forums
and since it's more precise, u'd get responses. Otherwise, i would look at it and agree 'its a rant' Wouldn't be the first time on Apple's forums, happened to me too sometimes.
Simple answer, Apple is very clear on its support forum and if you violate those rules your post will come down. Its their forum, their rules.