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Cute! Just chatting about the next Mac Pro in another thread!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Rick Lang] “Just chatting about the next Mac Pro in another thread!”
It’s as much fun as chatting about time travel. And as productive.
As befitting Apple’s image, nothing has ever been more Tao like than discussions of the “next” mac pro:
“he who knows does not speak, he who speaks does not know.”
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
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…or maybe there’ll be no Macpro at all. Just give up speculating and waiting – build or get built as many Hackintoshes with all the bits you want, for a lot less money.
At this point people say “But what about support? What am I going to do without without nice Apple expensively holding my hand?”
Answer: Go to your nearest friendly PC support company and tell them you have a sick PC which happens to be running OSX.
That’s it.
Bernie
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My crystal iBall
Xeon 6, 8, 16 cores.
2 PCIe3 16 lane slots, one used for the GPU unless that’s built in directly then just 1 slot.
4 Thunderbolt ports
4 USB3 ports
Fusion drive maybe with room for one more HDD
16GB RAM expandable to 512GB RAM
2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
Bluetooth
Wifi
Possibly no other internal expansion.
It’ll be designed so it can either be rack mounted, sit flat or on its side with a base stand.The lack of additional internal PCIe slots and HDD bays will be controversial.
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[Craig Seeman] “The lack of additional internal PCIe slots and HDD bays will be controversial.”
I think you’re right that we’ll see a redesigned enclosure with less internal expansion. If it’s really four Thunderbolt ports and two and PCIe slots, it’ll be fine. It’ll annoy some people, but it’ll fundamentally do everything a “pro” Mac needs to do.
If they go with only one PCIe slot and two Thunderbolt ports, however, that might be a little dicey. And then there’s the nightmare scenario, which is one half length slot, like the old G4 cube. But I’m pretty sure Apple’s smart enough to recognize that a major #1 attraction of the Mac Pro is the fact that you can stick a giant graphics card in it.
We ended up building a Windows machine for Resolve as a consequence of the lack of a Mac Pro update this year, but Windows is pretty damn annoying (as is working out the issues surrounding a Hackintosh), so we’ll immediately jump on anything Apple ships that we can plausibly use.
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[Chris Kenny] ” Windows is pretty damn annoying (as is working out the issues surrounding a Hackintosh),”
I’d be interested in an expansion of both parts of that sentence.
In what way was Windows annoying?
What were the issues in setting up a Hackintosh?
Bernie
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[Bernard Newnham] “In what way was Windows annoying?”
Probably for the same reasons I find OSX annoying – it’s repellent to my sensibilities.
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Cant wait to try FCPX on Windows 8….
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[Bernard Newnham] “What were the issues in setting up a Hackintosh?”
Hi
Not trivial….
In my case installing OS X on the ‘most hackable’ laptop, the Dell Mini 10v, took about 2 months of my time. Not every day of course, but as each install failed (about 2 dozen in all before I was successful) I abandoned it for a few days before gathering enough motivation to try to crack it again.Debugging the failures isn’t a case of noting where things go wrong, because as there is no real documentation on the procedures (just hundreds of random conflicting/outdated blog postings).
Part of the problem is that manufacturers change the actual hardware and bios firmware without any documentation.
The other problem is that the software hackers who post their kext-installer freely onto the web don’t/can’t help with support when would-be users find their installation attempts have failed.
Dozens of people post ‘solutions’ on the various Hackintosh forums, and assessing the merit of their ‘successes’ was for me an inordinately lengthy process of trial and error error error error….
So, like SCSI in the old days, building a hackintosh is a matter of Karma.
Like meditation, set aside plenty of time.But I now have a very nice and stable mobile SD Card-to-USB drive location backup set-up 😉
By the way the reason I wiped Windows off its drive was because every time I booted I got a succession of error messages about various Dell software management programs that were missing vital .dlls etc, which Google had no clear solution for.
I decided installing OS X was probably a simpler solution (for me) than attempting to debug Windows. And if I was going to do an OS reinstall it might as well be OS X.
I was only partially correct in that… 😉
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