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To: Dragonfly who wrote (24337)	4/26/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: FruJu	Respond to of 213177

I don't see how you couldn't do real time broadcast quality effects using Final Cut Pro on a quad G4 box. I think this eliminates AVIDs market segment (though Apple may not have the marketing muscle to get all of AVIDs customrs or clout)... Yes, so long as the internal bandwidth support is good enough (MaxBus needed I'm sure), a quad-G4 SMP box should be able to do pretty much most of what Avid does now with its plug-in cards. Like most things though, there'll probably always be a very high end market, and perhaps Avid thinks they can play in that space. My bet is that they end up like SGI... cannibalized from below by the PC makers. What Apple really needs (if they have crossed the Rubicon and given up on Avid) is a hard-nosed marketing campaign aimed at all the existing Avid installations when their multiprocessor G4 box eventually ships.