Re: [FCP-L] Re: New tech from Silverado - take a guess...

That's for a high end ATI graphics card, a 12 TB Fusion RAID,
monitors, loaded with RAM, the octo and Kona 3. No software.

On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Oliver Peters wrote:

> Steve,
>
> > Steve Hullfish wrote:
> > Basically, this is what Apple does with Final Cut. A cheap editing
> > solution that you have to buy increasingly more powerfull and
> > expensive computers to be able to run. Is FCS3 really $995? No. I
> just
> > bought a new computer to be able to run it and the whole system is
> > closer to $11,000.
>
> Actually I just bought a new 8-core and it didn't cost even half of
> that even with software. I'm not counting KONA cards or external
> storage, of course. You can run FCS3 on an iMac or a laptop. You can
> even run it on lesser machines if you aren't too worried about Color
> or Motion. Apple is in a win-win either way. Undoubtedly 50% of new
> machine sales for both Avid-based systems and Adobe-based systems
> are going to be Macs. Bottom line is that Apple doesn't need to do
> anything with FCS in order to get new hardware sales.
>
> - Oliver
>
>

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