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Core problem of the new Apple…
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[Mark Suszko] “There’s room to put the bubble juice on top and have a happy bubble machine running while it operates.”
Yes!
And then we can attach a cotton candy spinner to the fan, and joy will be brought to all the world.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “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.”
Hadn’t thought of that, you could still leave the Mac Pro in the equipment room and have local ports. But I’m still wondering why do all that. Aren’t you just sending tons of cable to and from the equipment room for no good reason.
If you leave the computer in the edit room, have your video interface there connected right to the monitor in the room, have your audio interface connected right to speakers in the room, connect your keyboard, mouse, control surface right in the room, the only remote thing you need is to connect to storage in the equipment room.
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[Brett Sherman] “If you leave the computer in the edit room, have your video interface there connected right to the monitor in the room, have your audio interface connected right to speakers in the room, connect your keyboard, mouse, control surface right in the room, the only remote thing you need is to connect to storage in the equipment room.”
Often, facilities make these things routable, separating rooms and computers and allowing access to any computer in any room.
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[Brett Sherman] “Hadn’t thought of that, you could still leave the Mac Pro in the equipment room and have local ports. But I’m still wondering why do all that. Aren’t you just sending tons of cable to and from the equipment room for no good reason. “
The good reason is that everything is one place.
If something is wrong with non monitor hardware, you go to one room, not all the rooms. It is much easier to swap things around when it’s in fewer places.
It is also easier for networking, with SANs often needing two or more physical connections.
There’s always tons of cable with equipment rooms.
The new MacPro has 6 TBolt ports. You can get a lot of capability from 6 TBolt cables.
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