I think the key is that basic computing 20 years ago was very limited. The additional money paid for hardware to lever enough to make NLE possible.
But today basic computing is cheap and powerful. The eye watering Apple additional cost is only partly spent on additional hardware. The rest is just profit.
Your $53K new Mac is costing a lot for a marginal gain.
As ever with Apple you pay for the shinyness.
Pat Horridge
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You're right, my bad.
It wasn't 1999, it was beginning 2001. (I found back my first project cut on Avid on Youtube…)
I switched from M100 after they locked captured media to a specific software version, basterds.
I started out with an Meridien Express (Elite I think, with the VDB, on a G4 with expansion chassis.)
I already had the hardware, and with console 'alldrives' I could use non-Avid drives.
I could not afford MC at that time, and no clue what I actually paid.
(I do have the paper administration.)
What I don't get though, according to wikipedia, Meridien wasn't introduced until 2003.
Funny thing:
I still run the Genelec speakers and Yamaha 03D that I already owned several years back then.
(The mixer reasonably priced back then, the Aardvark BB to Wordclock I needed to run the AES board not so, but that thing is also still running.)
On 24 Dec 2019, at 21:49, Sol Fischler via Groups.Io <sol.fischler=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
If you only paid 53K for your Avid 22 years ago, you got a steal --
We upgraded 2 Avids in 1999 at 75K each...
AVR 77 was all the rage...!
-------------------------------------------------Sol FischlerEditor: Image & Sound914-525-2579
On Tuesday, December 24, 2019, 05:27:14 AM EST, bouke <bouke@editb.nl> wrote:
Am I the first one to configure one online, and find it a steal if you max it out?(It's just a lousy 53K after tax return.)
On the other hand, I think that I've paid something like that for my first Avid, some 22 years ago.
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