MacBook Pro

Trending topics on Twitter change rapidly from one minute to the next, but in the world of electronics manufacturing, trends evolve slowly, often taking an entire calendar year to surface. Here at B&H, we’re among the first to get our hands on the latest professional and consumer equipment, and we’re always looking for new trends in the products.

2012 was an incredibly busy and prosperous year for Apple. We saw totally new designs for both computers and mobile devices, and updates to nearly every product line.

It’s only been a little more than a month since Apple’s last press event. Granted, the last one was for the iPhone 5 and not a major hardware update for Mac computers and iPad models. It’s still rare to have Apple reveal so much in such a short amount of time.

Johnny Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, describes the new MacBook Pro with Retina display as “…the very best computer we’ve ever built.” Offering new levels of capability in terms of image resolution and the ability to connect bandwidth-hungry peripherals, it’s an ideal portable computer for photography and video production.

If you’ve been holding out for a refresh of the MacBook Pro line, you’ve received more than an “iPhone 4S-type” update. Apple announced today at their annual Worldwide Developer Conference 2012 the next-generation MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

Today at the WWDC 2012 conference in San Francisco, Apple announced updates across the board for its popular MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebook computers. The new machines are faster and more capable than ever before.

Apple popularized many aspects of personal computing that are sometimes taken for granted. It’s responsible for the ubiquitous USB port, high-speed FireWire ports. One could also argue that its products had an integral role in the birth of the World Wide Web.

Creative professionals have been in desperate need of an Apple notebook loaded with a quad core processor for a long time. Video people needed to be able to edit and quickly render effects in HD. Musicians needed fewer limitations for processing audio and running virtual instruments. 

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro for my video and audio production needs, even though the limited ports on these computers make it tricky to plan out a suitable work flow. The biggest hurdle I faced was how to get by with just a single FireWire port. In this post I'll explain how I rearranged my hardware to work smoothly with my new production computer.

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