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Adobe updates?
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Cool. Thanks so much for the feedback. Yeah I have a couple iMacs Quad i7. Great bang for the buck. 32GB Ram and now using a thunderbolt to eSata hub and I put a solid state boot drive in it. It does work great. Was workign in a post house in NYC last month and got teased a little for my iMac… but it totally performed without a hitch. My concern going forward is whether or not Apple is going to continue to produce MacPros and increase performance. But from what I’ve read, I’m no longer sure that they won’t eventually phase them out. Hence the Windows option. It kills me to go that route but as you said it’s a fraction of the cost for a PC tower with 64GB ram and 16 cores. My programmer buddy told me he was very happy with Windows 8 and that it has been rock solid…. but being a long time Apple user, I’m still skeptical. I know the new iMac is comign out this month.. or has. But yeah, be great to have a lot more felxibility in expansion and with video cards. Imported Red footage on a tower via Red Rocket card and transcoded to prores 1080p, wonder how the iMac would perform with 5K footage in PPRo..
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[Brian Cooney] “My concern going forward is whether or not Apple is going to continue to produce MacPros and increase performance. But from what I’ve read, I’m no longer sure that they won’t eventually phase them out. Hence the Windows option. It kills me to go that route but as you said it’s a fraction of the cost for a PC tower with 64GB ram and 16 cores. My programmer buddy told me he was very happy with Windows 8 and that it has been rock solid…. but being a long time Apple user, I’m still skeptical. I know the new iMac is comign out this month.. or has. But yeah, be great to have a lot more felxibility in expansion and with video cards. Imported Red footage on a tower via Red Rocket card and transcoded to prores 1080p, wonder how the iMac would perform with 5K footage in PPRo..”
Who knows what they’re going to do or what the new machine will even look like. It’ll most likely be that “Made In the USA” machine Tim Cook was speculating about on NBC last week since they build so few of them.
As I said in the my recent article, the only glitch we’ve had with Windows is the XDCAM QT files not being read and of course, it’ll see the SAN slightly differently so we have to reconnect media when we switch platforms. But that is one of the beauties of being cross platform with the software. You literally can purchase thousands of configurations now instead of just the dozens from one manufacturer.
HP, Dell and ProMax are all good machines if you go Windows.
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Thanks Walt!
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hey guys, nothing to add. I just wanted to use the phrase “bang for the buck.”
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that is indeed a good phrase! 😛
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