Looks like the owner of the vimeo videos in that post changed the settings to require a password!

It's 4 year old videos, so perhaps they changed their account.

Your NFS password won't help, those videos are probably long gone.

I can't speak for everyone who writes for NFS (there are writers around the world), but the office runs on 4 iMacs, and almost all of the freelancers uses Macs.

Windows is gaining ground in motion picture post, but it's just not there yet, and even the windows folks i know use software that goes back and forth (Avid, Premiere, Resolve). I suspect mostly they like to keep their skills current enough they can bounce from facility to facility, and most facilities are still Mac.

We try and avoid writing about things we don't know: even if I haven't used every feature in a new update of Premiere, I use Premiere enough that I understand the updates and how they will impact day to day use.

I just literally don't know a single person using Vegas professionally in the LA/NY/STL markets I know best. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, I just don't know folks personally who are making a living on it.

However, it's noted and we'll ping our windows based writers to see if anyone has a vegas background and can write about updates.

FCP-X was a tough call, but eventually it just didn't make sense. It's really uncommon in post houses, so even young up and coming editors spend more time getting good at PP so they can work on the more common application.
I have even been to post houses that were in the ads for FCP-X showing it off who actually ran a combination of Premiere, Avid and FCP-7 and didn't use X.

Apple will keep going on X, and hopefully will regain some professional ground, but right now you just don't see it on sets, in post houses, and on pro jobs, with very few exceptions.

Well, you'll noticed we didn't report on transfer speeds (and we tested them galore, sometimes getting some real improvements over T2, depending on the drive), but those drives just aren't that common. Most filmmakers in the "indie" space are still using Lacie Rugged Raid drives (around 750mb/s on T2 or T3), or the Tuff at around 350mb/s either way, or G-tech. There are definitely going to be applications for T3 in the future, but for the drives we see most often used today it didn't make sense.

The Caldigit tuff is a common drive, USB-C native (that's the port on the body), and we tested common workflows. From internal to internal was tested as well, to take external ports out of the rotation.

The internal SSD to internal SSD test was most disappointing, since it was slower than the 2013!

I wish I loved this machine. I really don't want to buy a Razer and learn Windows 10. But it just didn't live up to real world situations.

Apparently, according to Phil Schiller, it's mostly about the batter.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/11/21/phil-schiller-again-defends-to...

Which is, well, mostly not what filmmakers need it for.

Working on a full review of the 15mbp, but for now, Resolve is the program that really makes that machine shine: getting twice the fps playback compared to my 2013, and renders are 35-40% faster, which is pretty amazing.