>That's a good one. A serious note about Apple, though. I would consider them a bigger threat if they had a working Web site. I've downloaded stuff from Real with no problem at all, but I can't even get to apple.com (even when trying to follow the Yahoo link on the page you posted or from download.com).<
Huh. I'm not having any of the problems you mentioned. I followed the South Park link and got there in one step:
apple.com
Likewise, the Phantom Menace sound played fine for me ...
FYI, I'm having trouble with RealPlayer. The audio works fine, but I keep getting messages that the file I'm trying to read is not a RealPlayer file (?) Their tech FAQ directs me to turn off all my non-Apple extensions (no help) and another site tells to turn on Virtual Memory (?) Not the best of experiences either.
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PS> Semi-on-topic is my post on the SI/AAPL thread:
>Attended an Apple Final Cut Pro seminar.
I've never done any video editing but was there with a PB tech from Tekserve who is a videomaker. We were both blown away!
apple.com
Some points:
* The level of sophistication is unbelievable (this is FCP 1.0) and the hardware costs are far less than I thought. Essentially, if you are setting up a base Blue & White (or Beige w/266+ and Firewire) for Photoshop, you've got all you need:
300-400 mhz processor
128-256 mb ram
1 or 2 IDE drives
(plus a PCI card for the second IDE drive)
Add a Firewire camera, deck and $999 for FCPro and you have a turnkey system for as little as $4000. That's it, no accelerator cards, no fast/wide scsi cards or drives needed!!
* The Apple rep used the phrase "80/20" - meaning 80% of the functionality of an Avid system for 20% of the price.
* Fee-based phone support will cost $2500/year.
* Seminars and full blown hands-on workshops to be scheduled:
seminars.apple.com
* Japanese and 5 Euro-language versions to ship later this year.
* Firewire PC cards from Newer to ship this summer will enable 300 mhz Wall Streets to run FCP.
* Regarding the future, he said "Think Altivec."
Add in QT Streaming Server and I think AAPL has put together a brilliant low-mid end content acquisition/manipulation/distribution system.
If I had any guts, I'd be shorting AVID. Big time.
PS> Please don't pump me for FCP info, I barely understand this much:<
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