New MacBook Pro and Imac

It seems that after the success of sales of the Ipod, Iphone and Ipad Apple has realized that the business is in the average user. One that although it does not have to be professionally dedicated to the audiovisual does have the purchasing power to buy and show off their products.

I believe that continuing this policy Apple recently presented its new MacBook Pro laptops. An important qualitative step forward with the previous range: i5 and i7 processors to eight cores, more memory by default, graphics up to 1 GB of Ram, Thunderbolt and solid state disks (which were already available previously).

I have to say from experience that the 17″ with 512 GB solid state disk (i7 at 2.3 and 8 GB Ram) tested with the free Blackmagic disk speed test application gives the following results:

Something in my opinion NOT at all negligible and even more so for a laptop. In short, a great machine in very little space (although not cheap all said, the price of the gadget in question rises to 4500€ Apple Care insurance included).

Continuing this line Apple has just released the new Imac, which as we all know are still laptops with large screen. The features of these new desktops are quite similar to those of the new range of MacBook Pro.

The only drawback I see in the professional world to both types of computers is their lack of scalability. The scarcity of ports makes it difficult to expand them in the future or present. Only the 17″ MacBook Pro has Express Card to be able to open up to video cards, esata ports, etc. The rest only have the new Thunderbolt, a port as fast as little extended at present in the audiovisual gadgets (although the truth is that I’m looking forward to seeing that to bridge the connection of an external hard drive to a monitor).

In short, a range suitable for those who are professionally engaged in the audiovisual industry but do not want to buy a MacPro due to cost or accessibility and do not need the scalability that this allows them. They are more expensive than a PC but can be worth it.