A stupid question, but wouldn't we be able to go the other way round? I love
mac notebooks, but I use DS and XSI, and I need my notebook to be a windows
one. Will I be able to buy a Intel titanium and use windows in it?
Nacho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chasteen, Howard" <Howard.Chasteen(at)fotf.org>
To: <DS(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:32 PM
Subject: RE: DS Cracked [was: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]]
> This may seem a bit blunt but I would not even spend $20K on such a
> system until we see if DS still exists as a distinct product after NAB
> 2006. Avid is staying completely silent on the subject.. We shall see. I
> certainly hope that the DS brand and philosophy does not cease to exist.
> A re-write of the system is OK but not if it loses its many good
> distinctives.
>
> H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of Todd
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:17 PM
> To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: DS Cracked [was: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]]
>
> We've had this discussion before friends:
>
> How many of you would buy a $10k 'software only' version of DS. Or even
> a
> $20k compositing station as a COMPLEMENT to DS? Basically a DS without a
> Nitris BOB that could be used for compositing and cutting mattes etc.
>
> Media would have to be ingested on the DS Nitris and would be shared the
> same way RP media is shared. You wouldn't be able to do much with this
> station without a DS Nitris as 'big brother' except with file based
> material
> which honestly DS ain't so compelling for...
>
> I might even $30k if they included the HP workstation/video card combo.
> Plus
> for me I'd have to buy a Unity seat for each one I got...Avid could make
> MORE MONEY from me AND MAKE ME HAPPIER AT THE SAME TIME...
>
> Offer a $50k version with Audio/Video OUTPUT only and I'd buy that
> too...
>
> -Todd
> Union
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of
> > Marc Fisher
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 15:20
> > To: 'DS(at)Softimage.COM'
> > Subject: DS Cracked [was: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]]
> >
> > Theorectically speaking, of course, the DS, as with the Media
> Composer,
> > and
> > Xpress, that you guys are discussing, would operate just fine witout
> the
> > hardware. The Hardware is not much more than an I/O box. All the
> > processing
> > is done in the CPU. True, how would you then get the clips into it,
> > firewire? Not actice in DS software yet. MC and Xpress it is though.
> You
> > could firewire it. Or DVD/CD.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be the coolest things if you could buy a fully functional
> > version of DS to run on laptops or other PCs, to say, offline,
> conform, or
> > composite? Then being able to save out your project, open it on the DS
> > with
> > Nitris hardware, and either recapture the media, render, and/or
> output.
> > Kind
> > of, take on FCp where it really matters. (And I say FCP solely because
> > that
> > seems to be Avid's biggest competition right now.)
> >
> > I guess that would compete with Xpress pro and the lower end avid
> > products,
> > and we certainly don't want to muddle up the product line...(snicker
> > snicker)
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chasteen, Howard [mailto:Howard.Chasteen(at)fotf.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:01 PM
> > To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: RE: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]
> >
> > "And? Tell me, what are they gonna run it on?"
> >
> > Precisely one of the reasons that Avid always likes to sell some Avid
> > branded and proprietary hardware as part of each high end system.
> > Software is not good without the Nitris or Equinox eh?
> >
> > Purple boxes....little purple boxes. They're everywhere. They are
> > everywhere!
> >
> > On the early DS systems the only thing you could not find direct from
> the
> > manufacturer was the dongle;-) A very strong reason to leave the
> older
> > Mac
> > based Avids behind and switch to the early SoftImage DS.
> >
> > Howard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of
> > Tony Quinsee-Jover
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:22 AM
> > To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: RE: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]
> >
> > "DS has been cracked"
> >
> > And? Tell me, what are they gonna run it on?
> >
> > T :)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of
> > Dom Q. Silverio
> > Sent: 16 November 2005 17:10
> > To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, this is not the case.
> > DS has been cracked - so has Lustre, Smoke, Media Composer, and many
> more.
> >
> >
> > Dom Q. Silverio
> > editor
> >
> >
> > > At the very least, Apple could place the equivelant
> > > of a "dongle" into hardware on the motherboard. I
> > > don't see anyone reverse-engineering "dongles" so
> > > that they may run expensive applications like the DS
> > > or AutoCad on just any computer.
> > >
> > Dom Q. Silverio
> > Editor
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