A few new MacPro fall 2019 questions

[steve Zavo]

Can anyone answer these please regarding MacPro fall 2019:

Maybe I want to stick with my beautiful NEC monitors.
Will those connectors remain the same? (DVI-D)

Will there be a way to connect my eSATA drives?

Can anyone suggest a most appropriate configuration
from this page, eg processor, memory:

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

for Photoshop files, some times up to 1.5 GB;
video editing: generally 60 4K 2 minute clips at a time input;
2 minute finished videos 4K output.

Thanks
Steve Z

[Shane Ross]

[steve Zavo] “Maybe I want to stick with my beautiful NEC monitors.
Will those connectors remain the same? (DVI-D)”

You’ll need thunderbolt adapters.

[steve Zavo] “Will there be a way to connect my eSATA drives?”

You’ll need an adapter, most likely USB-C will be the option.

[steve Zavo] “Can anyone suggest a most appropriate configuration
from this page, eg processor, memory:”

You can afford more than the base model? I can’t even afford that. The base would be fine for many many things, even Resolve and PPro. Get what you can afford.

[steve Zavo] “video editing: generally 60 4K 2 minute clips at a time input;”

You’ll need drives with connectors far faster than eSATA. Thunderbolt 3 RAIDs for 4K 60p. Fast drives is what helps with large data rate video filse.

[steve Zavo] “for Photoshop files, some times up to 1.5 GB;”

64GB RAM

[steve Zavo] “2 minute finished videos 4K output.”

This can be done quickly with an iMac 5K, nothing special about that. 2 min? Lickity split…base MacPro will do that.

Shane
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[Todd Perchert]

I would just go with the 1.5TB RAM. Excess is what’s needed here. LOL!
I just wonder what they charge for 1.5TB of RAM loaded into it…