Core problem of the new Apple…

[Harry Pallenberg]

I was also hoping it would float a ping pong ball – but the top vent looks too large…

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[Harry Pallenberg]

That is indeed small… I don;t think I realized just how small it was…

But think how many more happier people there would be if instead of a 3 sided triangle with a thermal core, they built it 4 sided with the 4th side composed of hard drives… even if it could only hold 2 of them… still be nice to have 2 – 4 TB internal… and the cube could be an homage to Jobs.

Either way – I already want one even if it would still sit on an eyesore of a desk…

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[Harry Pallenberg]

One more thought about the design… how often do you plug in a thumb drive? Headphones? Or drive from a client? All the time… but will I have it facing backside out? Or will I have to reach around? Turn it? Will it be easy to turn with a bunch of things plugged in?

hmmm….

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[David Mathis]

A ping pong ball is nice but what about the infamous spinning beach ball?

[Harry Pallenberg]

brilliant! great idea

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[Jim Wiseman]

Think of a Vornado (fan).

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Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.3, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Mathis] “A ping pong ball is nice but what about the infamous spinning beach ball?”

You, sir, are a genius.

[Brett Sherman]

I wonder if the whole concept of the “equipment room” can be rethought. For me, the only reasons I want to move the computer out of the edit room is noise, heat and UPS power requirements. With this Mac Pro that is no longer an issue. I’m guessing it’s going to be practically silent, produce little heat and a small UPS will suffice.

There are enormous complications moving the computer to a different location than it is being used. Ridiculously long display cables, lack of access to plug in drives, lack of bluetooth capabilities, difficulty in modifing (moving from DVI cables to Displayport for example). Walking back and forth and back and forth to burn a DVD. It just creates efficiency problems.

I’m thinking it’s a better arrangement to have the computer in the room with the editor and have storage and network infrastructure in the equipment room.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Brett Sherman] “I wonder if the whole concept of the “equipment room” can be rethought. For me, the only reasons I want to move the computer out of the edit room is noise, heat and UPS power requirements. With this Mac Pro that is no longer an issue. I’m guessing it’s going to be practically silent, produce little heat and a small UPS will suffice.

There are enormous complications moving the computer to a different location than it is being used. Ridiculously long display cables, lack of access to plug in drives, lack of bluetooth capabilities, difficulty in modifing (moving from DVI cables to Displayport for example). Walking back and forth and back and forth to burn a DVD. It just creates efficiency problems.

I’m thinking it’s a better arrangement to have the computer in the room with the editor and have storage and network infrastructure in the equipment room.”

This might be possible, and I think Thunderbolt will be much easier to extend, so you can have the computer net to you, and then the peripherals extended via TBolt to the equipment room.

Our SAN and the AC that goes with it, is really loud. Even our LTO machine is loud, there some advantage to keeping things in the other room.

The other nice aspect of about this, is Thunderbolt is dasiy chainable, so you can get a little breakout box like this: https://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F4U055 and have some ports exactly where you need them.

I’m not a systems engineer, and I know it’s going to cost some money to retool, but really, when I start looking at the upsides, it is not so bad. Extending current MacPro’s is a pain (and also not cheap).

Jeremy

[Mark Suszko]

There’s room to put the bubble juice on top and have a happy bubble machine running while it operates.