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Apple WWDC
Some take-aways:
Best cumulative Apple product announcements in a loooong time.
New higher-nits screens in the iMacs and iPads will give users better screens than most of the pro video screens we all currently use.
High Sierra macOS will expand the use of hardlinks/symlinks that FCPX users have become familiar with. Could become an issue with shared storage environments.
Apple finally acknowledges that iPad users need an accessible file system.
New developments in iPad/iPad Pro should open up better editing possibilities. Maybe in iMovie or TouchEdit or even a hypothetical FCPX iOS version.
HomePod is very cool. I wonder how this will affect your mixes when clients start to use this to review your files. In all likelihood it will alter the dynamic EQ balance of your mixes.
The iMac Pro can’t come soon enough.
Can we puleeeez ban “next level” from the lexicon of all presentations forever? ☺
– Oliver
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HomePod is such an unimaginative name
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from what I see, the iMac Pro’s top of the line ATI card (this is Radeon, they didn’t say ATI) – will be the equivalent of the
NVidia 1060, which is fine. But since the iMac Pro starts at $4999, are we talking about an iMac that is the same price as a blown out HP Z840, AND there are no slots ? I mean if we have a 5 grand machine, and the blown out version (which translates to the top of line GPU – so $8000 for the iMac) – well, that’s wonderful, but it’s sure not cheap. How many clients today will buy an $8000 computer. At least it “allegedly” will come with a 10G Ethernet network port (which I still can’t believe !).Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
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[Bob Zelin] “I mean if we have a 5 grand machine, and the blown out version (which translates to the top of line GPU – so $8000 for the iMac) – well, that’s wonderful, but it’s sure not cheap. “
I think that’s pretty low, Bob.
Base RAM = 32GB. I priced 128GB RAM from Kingston via Amazon +$1400 installed. Apple surely won’t do it for less than $1500, and could easily get more.
Base drive = 1TB. Again from Amazon, a 4TB from Samsung for $1500, and again assuming that Apple will charge more than this.
No criticism of Apple implied. They SHOULD be taking a premium for factory installation and testing….but I can see this going well past $8000 for sure, and possibly pushing up against $10,000 once you throw in Apple Care. ????
[Bob Zelin] “AND there are no slots ?”
Even more than the lack of slots, I’m surprised that Apple fails to offer truly pro-level support. Can you imagine any other company not even bothering to offer on-site service or next day parts as a paid option? That’s insane to me.
I don’t care what specs you put in the box. I want to know that you’ve got my back if something goes wrong, next business day. This isn’t theory or magic or hype. Everybody else is doing it.
Fortunately, there are dealers who’ll fill in the gaps in Apple’s coverage, but until they’re willing to meet the basic threshold long-established across the TRULY pro TRULY workstation industry, I still feel like Apple is trying to pass off a prosumer platform in pro’s clothing.
Sorry not sorry, it takes more than specs to be a pro workstation provider.
[Bob Zelin] “At least it “allegedly” will come with a 10G Ethernet network port (which I still can’t believe !). “
Here’s the grab from Apple’s site. Most important connection of all, though: the 3.5mm headphone jack.
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That was indeed the best keynote in awhile.
Nice speed bump for MacBooks and iMacs.
iMac Pro looks good, I’m curious what the maxed out configs will look like and cost. For people who use 10G Ethernet it’ll save them 600$ for the thunderbolt adapter, so that’s great.Best announcement for me was official support for external GPUs, I think that’ll be huge, but we’ll see. Hopefully available for Thunderbolt 2 devices, I couldn’t find any info on supported Macs.
The reasonable pricing of the HomePod kinda surprised me.
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The base model of the iMac Pro already surpasses the tricked out iMacs now and at $5K. Better display, TB3 and 10GigE. In their keynote, Apple made the comparison against a similarly equipped PC with an “average” display and posted that estimate as $7K. I think this machine will be the go-to Apple pro machine and might actually (eventually) negate the need to even release the replacement Mac Pro. If nothing else, it keeps loyal users within the fold until that time.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Bob Zelin] ” iMac Pro’s top of the line ATI card…Radeon…will be the equivalent of the
NVidia 1060, which is fine. But since the iMac Pro starts at $4999, are we talking about an iMac that is the same price as a blown out HP Z840, “I don’t think anybody knows the exact performance of the Radeon Pro Vega GPU to be used in the iMac Pro. The only number they mentioned was 11 teraflops which is about equal to an nVidia 1080 Ti. We won’t know for sure until the exact model of the GPU and specs are released and maybe not until the iMac Pro itself is released and benchmarked. Apple’s WWDC video said the Radeon Vega GPU was 3x faster than the current Mac Pro GPU — don’t know if that is single or dual cards.
Re price, Apple’s video said it was $2000 cheaper than a tower PC configured to equal specs. I don’t know about that, but the cheapest Dell Precision workstation I could configure with 8-core Xeon, possibly similar GPU and 1TB SSD was over $5k, didn’t remotely approach 3 gigabytes/sec SSD performance, plus it didn’t include a monitor.
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How the hell are they going to cool this thing with those Xeon processors, all that RAM and a GPU like that?
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[John Pale] “How the hell are they going to cool this thing with those Xeon processors, all that RAM and a GPU like that?”
New fan system. Watch the WWDC keynote.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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There’s now a specific iMac Pro page on Apple’s website:
https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I was wondering about the future of the Mac Mini.
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