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  I Got My New MacPro This Week!

  Posted by Don Walker on June 16, 2012 at 1:07 am

  And I didn’t need any cheap Chinese labor from Foxconn, I put it together all by myself! (with my wife cheering me on!)
  The Recipe:
  1. (1) 2008 8 core MacPro with 10GB of RAM
  2. 8GB RAM upgrade kit from Crucial.
  3. (1) ATI 5770 video card from my favorite VAR.
  4. (1) BMD Intensity Pro

  I thought about a new laptop or iMac, but I would have to buy a lot a peripherals to get my my 2 external RAIDS and 3 internal drives in my MacPro a new home. Plus a laptop is probably in the future but I wasn’t ready to make it my primary editing computer (though I have no doubt it would perform better than my MP in most instances} So I just put some money into Ole Faithful and have been very pleased.

  I wish I didn’t have to buy the Intensity Pro, but I am in a 90% tapeless workflow, with only 1 client using DV which I bring in through my Sony HDV deck, and AJA has EOL my Kona Lhe, which I can’t use with CS6 or FCPX, so I bought the cheapest good monitoring card I could. I don’t expect to be editing on this setup in 2 years, but it should keep going until Apple releases it’s next new Awesomeness!

  don walker
  texarkana, texas

  John 3:16

  Thomas Frank replied 13 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bernard Newnham

  June 16, 2012 at 9:55 am

  “And I didn’t need any cheap Chinese labor from Foxconn, I put it together all by myself!”

  Every chip neatly soldered in by you…?

  Bernie
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  Mark Wilson

  June 16, 2012 at 3:41 pm

  Nice upgrade!!!
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  Thomas Frank

  June 18, 2012 at 9:31 am

  “And I didn’t need any cheap Chinese labor from Foxconn, I put it together all by myself!”

  Yeah I don’t get that ether??? Like nothing else in US comes from China huh?

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