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blackmagic and psystar
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Randy this is where you are wrong, a desktop motherboard is clearly not the same as server based one like the one on BOXX\’s or Mac pro\’s…. it goes through more testing, it supports ECC memory, has dual sockets, supports xeon processors, it\’s bios is properly made and tested and the build quality is better. Comparing these machines is besides the point anyway…
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o.k. best on the desktop market I think you were trying to read into what I was saying. Yes server boards are “beefer” than desktop boards are very reliable. I dont think (in the editing world) that a server board is going to last that much more than a good desktop board. The question I have is What can I Mac pro do that a home made intel machine with OSX on it cant do? I mean that sincerly is there something that a $3000+ can do that my $1500 cant? Hey I build my own machines and I know most folks dont have the know how or the time to deal with service and unfortunatly have to spend bigger bucks but if you go cheaper why not? Spend more money on cameras. I know we have really gone off track and we will have to agree to disagree but to answer the original post from my experiance with my 2 systems YES you can run FCP and YES BM intensity pro both work fine. I cant speak for the other BM products because I dont have them.
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[Margus Voll] “One thing some RED people are testing is 17″ MBP with pci extender or something like that for red rocket.”
Well I’d be surprised if they succeeded since the MBP (all laptops with ExpressCard) uses an x1 PCIe lane and I’d imagine the Red rocket will need a little more punch than that.
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I have no idea about the cost but generally it is possible in theory and then you could have your mobile, home, testing machine. No mandatory 8 cores”It could work if you don’t have much rendering and don’t put much pressure on the machine, but this is rarely the case for people, still it could work for some. I actually use my laptop only for mobile uses.
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“Well I’d be surprised if they succeeded since the MBP (all laptops with ExpressCard) uses an x1 PCIe lane and I’d imagine the Red rocket will need a little more punch than that.”
R3d’s run at about 36MBs so as long as the only thing is the r3d data going out and playback is only on the external monitor I don’t see why it shouldn’t work.
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What I’m curious about is using a dual OS machine with a RAID array. First of all there’s the issue of compatibility with the RAID card… but it seems that wouldn’t be a problem since people have had few problems getting various PCI cards to work well in these computers (like BM).
The problem I see is that mac drives are formatted differently than windows drives. If you formatted your array in windows it probably wouldn’t work well when you switched to OSX and viceversa… so that makes the idea of having a BM card in these systems irrelevant for us.
There are solutions like MacDrive, but I don’t know how well that would work… and if it did it would most likely make your array lag since there are more processes required.
For editing uncompressed content in a semi-economic fashion Apple still wins out (especially now with the horrendous CS4 “update” to Premiere).
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