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Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco

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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote
>> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote
>>>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote
>>>> nospam wrote

>>>>> it have very fast internal storage and can
>>>>> connect to external via thunderbolt 2.

>>>>> people who buy high end systems typically have raid arrays.

>>>> Did Apple announce a separate box to
>>>> hold real disk drives for a storage array ?

>>> Are you suggesting it would be good for Apple to enter the storage
>>> box market? Do you have any actual data to back that up?

>>>> Out of curiosity, do storage arrays today support Thunderbolt 2  ?

>>> Go find out for yourself, since it matters to you.

>>>> So that 43 watt quote for the new MacPro when idle is rather empty
>>>> promise if you need to buy seperate boxes with their own power
>>>> supplies to fill the needs of what is missing inside the MacPro.

>>> So your position is that the existing storage options
>>> in the new Mac Pro are insufficient for most people?

>>> I'm finding that a little hard to swallow, personally, considering I am 
>>> one
>>> of those people and think the storage would be sufficient for my needs.

>> As long as you're not doing video.

> Is there data suggesting that most Mac Pro owners do video?

Most isn't what matters, what matters is whether significant numbers of them 
do.

And presumably significant numbers do given
that a laptop isnt really that viable for a PVR.

> I'd find that hard to believe.

Having fun thrashing that straw man ?

> I'm a software developer and system administrator,
> and 1TB of storage is plenty for my needs.

And wouldn’t be if you did video.

> At the moment, I've got a 480 GB SSD
> in this Mac Pro, and I've got 130+ GB free.

Irrelevant to what happens if you use it for video. 

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Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-15 09:42 -0700
  Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-22 18:46 +0200
    Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco bj <address_is@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-22 13:36 -0500
      Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-22 14:40 -0400
        Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-22 17:17 -0400
          Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-22 17:43 -0400
            Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-22 18:23 -0400
              Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-22 18:37 -0400
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-22 18:54 -0400
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-22 19:37 -0400
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-22 18:49 -0700
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-23 13:33 +0200
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-23 14:52 -0400
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-23 18:00 -0400
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-24 04:26 +0000
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 16:40 -0400
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-26 08:41 -0500
              Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-22 21:01 -0400
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-23 18:13 +1300
              Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-22 18:48 -0700
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-23 02:20 +0000
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-23 08:33 -0700
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 07:13 +1100
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-24 08:00 -0700
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-24 04:24 +0000
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-24 07:57 -0700
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-25 05:36 +0000
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-25 07:51 -0700
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-26 10:09 +1300
                Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 16:47 -0400
          Re: Apple confirms October 22nd press event in San Francisco Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-22 18:41 -0700

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