Technology Changes - Again

Sometimes tech stuff is a long slow process of incremental change and sometimes it's just a big jump from one technology to another - over night. Apple seems to be doing a combo of both right now. There's a new version of Final Cut Pro soon to be released. It's supposed to be a big jump over the current version, but only a handful of people have actually seen it and all current speculation is just hot air. The blogs say it maybe more of an iMovie-like interface, but only the insiders really know and because of those non-disclosure agreements they can't say. I guess we're all waiting for NAB to find out. Tick, tick, tick.

In addition there's a new kid on the block for data transfer: Thunderbolt. I've been feeling left out of the rise of USB 3 and it's dramatically faster data rate over FireWire. BlackMagic Design has a video capture device that uses USB 3 that I've been coveting, but alas Apple has not chosen to add USB 3 ports to their computers. In the past I've used eSATA connections to external RAID drives for size and speed, but you need a card in a tower computer to do that and we now have quite a number of iMacs that can't play in that pond. Now that's all changed. Thunderbolt blows all other data connections out of the water. Wow. Of course that's only in new computers, which means all the computers we own now are obsolete. Great. Thanks so much.

Finally in OS-land people are starting to talk about Lion. Who knows what the heck that brings. Maybe this one is more the slow evolving process than the big jump. The problem always is what's it do now and what does it no longer do that we weren't even thinking about. Ouch.

So, it's always a reminder that change is the landscape that we all live in (on) and much like weather and climate, change moves at differing rates as well. Welcome to yesterday.

gunther