Opinions: Apple G5

Interim · 2003-06-24T22:28:25

Not sure how many Apple users there actually are in this forum, but wanted to get the opinions (since we all have one... right?) Apple announced their G5 hardware. It''s on line with their usual top end systems in terms of price(starting at 3k for dual) and if the performance is on part to reality (vs the marketing hype), pretty sweet. Jobs made some impressive claims and showed some incredible demos (particular in video-audio editing). (see the link to the quicktime keynot, you''ll have to watch most of it to get to the end though, long feed). http://www.apple.com/powermac/ Of course slashdot covering the news: http://slashdot.org/apple/ I believe the new hardware may return Apple back to prime choice of video and audio professionals. Particularly considering how easy it would be to convert those proprietary Linux programs to FreeBSD + Cocoa UI. (Hell, they could just keep using X since Panther has a built in X server). They also released a new codec called Pixlet. (Influenced by demand by Pixar apparently). Check out http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/. I copied the blurb on it for you. quote: Pixlet is the first studio-grade codec for filmmakers. Pixlet provides 20-25:1 compression, allowing a 75MB/sec series of frames to be delivered in a 3MB/sec movie, similar to DV data rates. Or a series of frames that are over 6GB in size can be contained within a 250MB movie. Pixlet lets high-end digital film frames play in real time with any Panther Mac, without investing in costly, proprietary playback hardware. I believe the claim is this creates non-artifact compressed video, hard to see by the tiny keynote quicktime broadcast. (also posted below) http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc03/ Post up if you have some thoughts. Interim

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Started by Interim June 23, 2003 07:32 PM

22 comments, last by Interim 21 years, 7 months ago

CobraMantis

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June 24, 2003 11:03 AM

Yeah. Same goes for Windows users.

Strife

374

June 24, 2003 01:16 PM

w00t, Gamecube fans

You can''t forget Super Smash Bros. Melee. That is THE party game.

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Russell

118

June 24, 2003 10:17 PM

quote:
Original post by CmndrM
You can''t forget Super Smash Bros. Melee. That is THE party game.

Oh how many classes I missed because we were in the middle of playing Smash Bros. I could have been a straight A student, but it was not meant to be...