I see lots of current problems if the MacPro is phased out, not just expansion of a hypothetical "mac mini pro". But Apple is becoming a manufacturer for the consumer masses with idevices, Apple TV and thin notebooks. Unless they allow licensing for 3rd party hardware for legal hackintoshes which would be nice, we are too niche for their big picture.
The sad thing is before the ipod/portable device revolution it was our niche market (the creative user) that kept the company afloat for 20 years.. and this is how we are treated.
It will push more people to Windoze, whether they like it or not.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> The problem with the Thunderbolt expansion chassis is the current 4 lane limit.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Erik_Freid" <erik@> wrote:
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> > Definitely, Ludicrous speed, right out of the pro market.
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> > There will be a great niche market for thunderbolt equipped external PCI-e chassis.
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> > We all remember how well the NuBus expansion chassis worked don't we? Power down, re-seat your cards, restart...
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> > Two steps forward one step back, and we are doomed to repeat history. I just hope they come out with true optical thunderbolt soon to support multiple external add ons like 4+ PCI-e cards, 2+ GPU cards, your monitor, a couple of TB raid, etc all through one little port or as I like to call it single point of failure...
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Anna Hovhannessian <annahovhannessian@> wrote:
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> > > Apple's gone plaid.
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> > > On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:45 AM, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@> wrote:
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> > > > The betting money is on a Mac Mini on steroids. Figure a GPU slot, one extra PCIe slot and Thunderbolt. Maybe two internal fixed drives. I wonder if they will actually go with more than a single quad core CPU.
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> > > > iMacs and faster laptops, too, of course.
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> > > > Oliver
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