Sandman
In article <znu-7F1707.23480113062013@news.eternal-september.org>,

ZnU <znu@fake.invalid>wrote:

In article <PZednT6sYLSdrSXMnZ2dnUVZ5j2dnZ2d@giganews.com>,

Steve de Mena <steve@demena.com>wrote:

Steve de Mena
Should I only apply criteria that apply to all users? I'm a Pro user

that this machine is targeted for. Audio professionals, especially Pro

Tools users, generally use one or more PCIe slots.

To a large extent this is merely an 'Apple got rid of the floppy drive

and now I have to buy an external one' sort of situation, however. Given

a year or two, there will likely be native Thunderbolt pro audio

interfaces, etc. A lot of this stuff is already there in the pro video

world, where it seems like Thunderbolt uptake has been faster. In

general, the native Thunderbolt devices are a lot smaller than a PCIe

card in an external TB enclosure, and some of them are also bus powered.

As far as the lack of internal drive bays... maybe that is a bother for

some users, but in pro video individual projects are so large that it

makes more sense to use SAN storage or external RAID boxes than to

rotate projects on and off of internal drives. The machines in our

suites are already SSD-only internally -- system, apps and scratch go

there, everything else is external.

Sandman
Whoa, welcome back, ZnU. Have you been lurking all these years? :)

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