Re: Apple notebook with windows? DS Cracked [was: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]]

[Seán Travers <seanpt(at)telus.net>]

Well maybe you be able to dual boot the new Macbook Pro with windows XP?
Finally a fast mac laptop

I really hate when they see the need to put the name "Pro" on something

<x-tad-bigger>Seán Travers
DS Artist
Shaman Digital Media
Vancouver BC.
Canada
604 689 1205</x-tad-bigger>
On 10-Jan-06, at 8:32 AM, Nestor Moreno wrote:

> I have Virtual PC in My powerbook G4, and it works fine with several programs, but I haven't  installed DS training there.
> Feliz Año Nuevo Nacho
>
> Nestor Moreno
> 24Pfilm
>
> On Nov 20, 2005, at 7:12 PM, El Espiritu VFX wrote:
>
> > 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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