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Lots of doom and gloom here
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True. However, it sure as hell means that it doesn't get rationalized down to being a "bunch of small businesses and amateurs." Getty Images alone has over 5500 employees, in which nearly 50% of those employees are photographers.
BL.
Time Warner recently sold Time/Life to a private investor group so they evidently didn’t take it too seriously. Getty is an image broker for stock images. Anyone can sign up to contribute images, you don’t have to be a pro-photographer or use a particularly expensive camera.
I am pretty certain all those photographs of products you see in ads are largely done by professionals. I mean, if you think Apple's website (or Microsoft's, or Adobe's, etc.) are full of amateur photo's I don't know what to say.
Puzzling comment...
I’ve been a professional musician for 30 years, using DAW computers for 25 and never came close to buying an Apple computer. Im pretty set in my niche with a good work flow but things had become a tad boring. I was close to needing another hardware upgrade and decided to take the plunge with a ProMax and couldn’t be happier. Im S L O W L Y moving forward by mirroring my projects between ProTools and Logic and it’s been fun. The workflow is different, I’ll likely be dropping a pile of stuff I’ve used for years but it’s exciting. Yes it’s been more work because I’m essentially doubling my load and learning Logic at the same time but I’m seeing a path forward and it’s exciting.
On the performance side I couldn’t be happier. I don’t need dozens of tracks for orchestral productions but I’ve messed around and thrown 30 tracks at it with maximum plugins and it doesn’t skip a beat. I haven’t tried to max it out but I suspect it would easily hold its own vs my Intel 7700 and blow away my Xeon backup. I’ll also be able to reduce my hardware footprint by getting rid of the desktop tower and likely some of my outboard stuff that I haven’t needed in a while. If the migration works I’ll by an M1 Air for a backup and get rid of both my towers, an added bonus. Cheers
On the performance side I couldn’t be happier. I don’t need dozens of tracks for orchestral productions but I’ve messed around and thrown 30 tracks at it with maximum plugins and it doesn’t skip a beat. I haven’t tried to max it out but I suspect it would easily hold its own vs my Intel 7700 and blow away my Xeon backup. I’ll also be able to reduce my hardware footprint by getting rid of the desktop tower and likely some of my outboard stuff that I haven’t needed in a while. If the migration works I’ll by an M1 Air for a backup and get rid of both my towers, an added bonus. Cheers
Because it’s also good to get knowledge about what works, particularly if that’s what you plan to use the computer for. That’s the point.
Beside I also heard of shareware called GraphicConverter.app that can convert any picture into what you want!
the m1 will do way more than hold its own against the 7700..I have a 7700k desktop and a m1 based system and the performance difference in CPU heavy tasks is crazy. Even on benchmarks the 7700 has slightly more than half the single and multi-core performance as the M1 (not even the pro or max)
I used to think my desktop was fast but really only used it for gaming. When I compared blender viewport performance between the two I was shocked to see how slow the 7700 was.
Shareware… now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time!
The list the cool site that's been up for 15 years now MacUpdate.com! You'll find some cool freeware/sharewares that really good, if you have a M1 then look for only Silicon or Universal software if you can! Intel only software works but eats up to much resources/ram!
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