new mac pros

Terence Curren
July 28, 2010 at 12:41 am

First thought, they aren’t shipping until August.

Second thought, ATI only, not good.

Third thought, it will take Avid a few months to qualify them.

Fourth thought, no USB 3.0, no ESATA, no BluRay still.

Fifth thought, only a 1.3 performance gain, and 4 more cores doesn’t mean anything when FCP and MC don’t use them.

Last thought, wait until they ship and pick up some Nehalems cheap.

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Craig Alan
July 28, 2010 at 1:04 am

So you think Avid will qualify them?

I guess with a tower we can always add whatever in/out we want, though I was expecting at least one new flavor built in. Maybe the reasoning is let’s see what takes off and add it then. I think usb 3 will take off since its cheap, backwards compatible and user friendly.

I was kinda hoping there would be a built in port for my esata raids.

And something new … oh well.

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Matt Mullen
July 28, 2010 at 2:58 am

They likely will support it but probably not with a current release. Most likely in a future release.

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