Why are people surprised? Apple iWorks has lost features.

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This has been all over the web, at MacWorld, MacRumors and AppleInsider, to name a few.

Unfortunately this has been Apple’s MO of late. They are dumbing down their software for the average iOS user instead of the Average Mac user and especially not the power use. They killed most of their professional apps, starting with Shake, then Final Cut Pro 7 (yes FCP X has some power features, but it is still dumbed down in so many ways). And now they remove power features from iWorks from Mac to make feature sync with iOS. Shouldn’t they have added features to iOS? Yes, but instead they dumb down. And they will continue. They have already hidden the user library folder which many power users are going into all the time, and password protected the Utilities folder.

I just wish they would make a Power user mode that turns off the hand holding and lets you do as you please, and stop cutting out features that people use, but I don’t see it happening. I mean look at the new MacPro! Yes it is powerful, but not nearly as expandable or upgradeable as the machine it is replacing.

It really makes me wonder if I will have a Windows machine in the future (though I don’t like Windows 8.1 either).

AVID Media Composer and Apple Mavericks

From AVID themselves, they do not support Mavericks with Media Composer 7, though they are working on it.

I know Apple must have purposely made Mavericks work with Final Cut Pro 7, but it still works and Premiere Pro CC and CS6 work just fine, so AVID had better get on the ball here.

Of course they have till December with the new MacPro (which will likely coincide with a new version of Mavericks), but that means no new Macs will run AVID until they update!

Yes Final Cut Pro 7 runs in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Yes I upgraded to Mavericks and ran Final Cut Pro 7 last night, and yes it runs and plays back. Haven’t done extensive testing, but it does seem to work. And it has to have been on purpose as even After Effects CC had an update to make it work right in Mavericks, but Final Cut Pro 7 without an update still seems to work.

Apple to release new Mac Pro in December

Apple has finally given more info on the MacPro and it will be released sometime in December.

Still no word on customization prices, but the Quad-Core starts at $2999 and the Hexa Core starts at $3999 and can go up to a 12 core. And we have seen that the Graphics cards are either Dual AMD FirePro D300’s with 3GB of VRAM, dual AMD D500 with 3GB of VRAM or Dual AMD D700 with 65GB of VRAM, but no price on the D700. All include 256GB of PCIe SSD Flash Storage, but can be upgraded to 512 or 1 TB which will be necessary if you plan on installing Windows since it requires an internal install so look forward to a partition.

I still want my next computer to be Mac, but I really would prefer NVIDIA Titan cards for Graphics!