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Agree 100% with you on the Mac Pro. It's a novel design, but I have no idea why they went with AMD processors instead of the upcoming Ivy Bridge E Xeon E5s, whi
by IanChiles 13y ago
Agree 100% with you on the Mac Pro. It's a novel design, but I have no idea why they went with AMD processors instead of the upcoming Ivy Bridge E Xeon E5s, which will run circles around the best AMD has to offer...
- shinratdr 13y agoWhat? They did use Xeons, they said so right in the keynote.
- thomaslutz 13y agoI guess he confused that with the GPUs.
- IanChiles 13y agoI was following The Verge because my live stream cut out on my AppleTV. Sorry about my confusion...
- modeless 13y agoThe Verge's liveblog was confused, they saw the AMD GPU logos and thought they were talking about the CPUs.
- shinratdr 13y agoI don't know why someone would use a liveblog when they offered a very capable livestream. Also quite the rookie mistake considering the AMD logo they showed had "FireGL" written right on it.
- spangborn 13y agoIt wasn't available on Windows, which many of us work on. Also, some work networks are more restrictive and block it.
- shinratdr 13y agoIt was, just not via any typical Windows browser because of their lack of support for HLS. Simply copying the URL into VLC would have worked.
- capnjngl 13y agoLivestream from Apple was OSX-only.
- eyko 13y agoMore like Safari-only. I couldn't watch it on Chrome on OSX (unless I changed my user agent to Safari)
- dhruvmittal 13y agoSeriously, that was a little absurd. Why exactly does Apple want to limit its audience by only allowing people using Safari on OSX to watch it? I doubt all the markets are so saturated that every potential iPhone, Macbook, and Mac Pro customer is already on OS X. If I didn't happen to have a Macbook as a work PC for the summer, I'd have missed the Macbook Air announcement. But god, do I want one.
- shinratdr 13y agoIt's not about limiting the audience. HTTP Live Streaming is just a better technology. Watching the keynote it was blatantly obvious. I have more outright pauses in the average Youtube video than an HTTP Live Stream. It required some rapid and noticeable quality changes but I would much prefer that over the video simply dropping out entirely. The technology is there and can be implemented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming Most just choose not to. That's not Apple's fault, nor is it a reason to fall back to a worse technology that degrades the experience for all watching to help out those on other platforms. For the record, it wasn't at all limited to "Safari on OS X". Any device or program that properly implements HTTP Live Streaming could easily view the keynote. Apple listed Safari on OS X, the Apple TV, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad as all being verified, but other devices supported it too.
- shinratdr 13y agoWhether or not HLS is supported by Chrome is quite confusing. I'm not surprised they blocked it at a User Agent level (which Google does all the time for their services, Reverse Image Search & Maps being good examples). While Chrome has supported HLS for a WebM backend for some time now, documentation on their support for HLS with an MP4 backend is unclear. It seems to work now as of Chrome 26, but that wasn't always the case. It also works fine on Android devices past 3.2 because of Google TV.
- dakrisht 13y agoIt's novel, absolutely. But man is that thing ugly! -- Comes with an Intel XEON E5
- packetslave 13y agoThe new Mac Pro is Xeon E5. The GPU is AMD, not the CPU.
- antimatter 13y agoAMD GPUs, not CPUs.