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How will the new MacPro compare with a topped out 2012 27″ iMac
Just wondering how the new MacPro will compare with my 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 2012 27″ iMac, will I really benefit from this new machine?
I have to say I’ve already mentally bought it.
My initial reaction was WTF, but having absorbed the new design and spent time looking at the micro site I’m hooked and can’t wait for it to be released. My already semi redundant aluminium MacPro tower immediately looks incredibly dated, not quite as dated as the Power Mac G3 but almost. And as many have pointed out a whole new range of ancillary equipment will follow, new Thunderbolt 2 storage devices and new monitors.
So the next anticipation will be pricing levels, my guess is the the entry level configuration will be around $2.5k rising up to $6k.
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Do you run software that is GPU heavy? Adobe, da Vinci? in CPU terms it will just be a later model and thunderbolt will be faster. Otherwise it is a single CPU machine without PCIe slots
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Your iMac will suck…because the MacPro is better. TONS better. Tubes always outdo computers stuffed inside monitors.
Also..it’s newer. Newer is always better.
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Shane
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Just my gut hunch but I think the updated FCPX will benefit from the GPUs in the new MacPro. I think Apple will do this to push hardware sales. Completely speculative as to what might work better on the MacPro but I’d throw out guesses like true background rather than pauseround rendering and multiple live scopes on each of the dual viewers, all possible with 4K monitors (if you need that sort of thing).
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Given that all the parts of an ordinary computer are rectangular one wonders what exactly is the point of a tube. Buy a rectangular box, put in motherboard of your choice, add CPU, GPUs, drives, RAM, power supply, of your choice. They’re all rectangular. Add OSX from your Apple store. Save lots and lots of money and have a machine that’s always upgradable or modifiable whenever you want.
Who on earth would ever dream of buying this useless thing?
Oh – you.
Bernie
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[Bernard Newnham] “Who on earth would ever dream of buying this useless thing?”
What a shock Bernard thinks we should all home build
Steve Connor
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Apparently you’re not looking at how it’s cooled. I strongly suspect that dictated the design. Given three cards around a center cooling core they were left with triangle or tube.
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I’ve been considering going Hackintosh for a while…. but now I’m pausing to consider; what’s the impact of Apple writing code into FCPX, or the OS, to utilize the GPU’s in the Tube? Unlike traditional MacPros, they no longer need to allow for alternative video cards. So a HackApple at first boot will have a major disadvantage they don’t have today.
Bernard, your thoughts?
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I’m very interested to see how the tube performs as a smoke-resolve box. A real life comparison with the equivalent price hackintosh will settle it pretty quick.
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[Craig Seeman] “Just my gut hunch but I think the updated FCPX will benefit from the GPUs in the new MacPro.”
Well thats what I figure too. This will probably be my last big Mac work related purchase. I started with the Macintosh 128k in 1984 and seem to have been giving Apple my money ever since then.
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[Craig Seeman] “pauseround”™
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