RE: [Fed-Talk] is Apple nuts
RE: [Fed-Talk] is Apple nuts
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] is Apple nuts
- From: "Bracy, Jason T." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:51:09 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] is Apple nuts
This is great news for us and a sign that Apple isn't nuts - they do have a plan! We run an Xsan and with the announcement of Thunderbolt and Promise announcing the SANlink Thunderbolt to Fibre adapter we for a brief moment thought that we had a way to replace our Mac Pros and use laptops for Video editing on the SAN. Then we realized that the SAN requires 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and no one has yet announced a Thunderbolt to Gigabit ehternet adapter (all of the USB products are 100 megabit)
The new display means that we can give our users a MacBook pro with a 27" Thunderbolt display and a Promise SANlink (once they ship) and finally get rid of the MacPros! And now with Xsan built into Lion we don't even have the $999/seat cost. If anyone has yet updated an Xsan Metadata controller to Lion let me know how it went...
Now all Apple has to do is provide a way for a small workgroup (<20 users) to upgrade to Lion and Final Cut Pro X and we are set. Currently the App Store is not an option for us and Apple only provides volume licensing for 20 seats or more.
Jason
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From: fed-talk-bounces+jason.t.bracy=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+jason.t.bracy=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Reese, Brian J Mr CTR DoD DMA
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] is Apple nuts
For those who might not have closely followed the recent hardware announcements, its worth noting that the new Thunderbolt display acts as a docking station for macs with Thunderbolt ports. All you connect is the power cord and the Thunderbolt cord to the computer and it gives you the USB ports, Firewire 800 ports, Ethernet port, and daisychained Thunderbolt port on the back of the display. This is pretty handy for computers with limited built-in ports like the new MacBook Air. It also gives the new MacBook Air access to Firewire peripherals for the first time ever.
On 7/21/11 12:51 PM, "Matthew Linton" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> My thought on the matter is that anywhere I'm likely to be using an
> Ethernet adapter for a MacBook Air alongside more than one or two
> other USB peripherals, I'm probably in a spot where a USB Hub
> (remember
> those?) makes sense too.
>
> ==========================
> Matt Linton, GCIH
> Lead Computer Security Official
> NASA Ames Research Center
> 650-380-4281 (mobile)
>
>
> On 7/21/11 8:33 AM, Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC wrote:
>> What surprised me on the Air was the ethernet adapter hogging up a
>> USB port rather than having a port of its own. My Macbook Pro is
>> fairly old (first gen Intel) but had its own ethernet port so I don't
>> know when this trand started but using up a USB port where there
>> aren't many of them seems...well...nuts. :o) At least it did at
>> first. Then I realized there won't be many folks using Airs for
>> business and most folks using them at home (as with the Ipad they're
>> kinda sorta based on) don't use ethernet ports anyway, but have
>> wireless LANs. At least that's what I'm ass-uming the thinking was. But then again, I like cashews.
>>
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