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That’s cool. It looks as though the iMac Pro is going to be a good benchmark for price and performance then, because without a 5K display for a HP or Dell workstation the comparison isn’t equal.
All things considered, I want an iMac pro, but…..if there is a new Mac Pro line coming; will that be faster, modular, be paired with a new apple display….?
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[Oliver Peters] “And if you are considering a purchase….”
And for those who want to Hackintosh an equivalent iMac Pro, it’ll cost ya!:
https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/200477
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Can FCPX 10.4 be far behind the release of the iMac Pro?
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That article is 6 months old and the build choices were not very smart – for instance there would be no reason to choose a SSD instead of an M.2 drive – you can get the Samsung EVO 960 M.2 for under $200 and it will give you the same drive speed the iMac is getting probably because it’s the same thing inside the Apple?
Also the 5K monitor on the iMac isn’t really 5K – the same monitor on the current 2017 iMac runs native and QHD not 5K! In fact you can’t even crank it to 4K!
But who cares – I still want an iMac Pro!
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “And for those who want to Hackintosh an equivalent iMac Pro, it’ll cost ya!:”
And the price similarity wouldn’t be worth the hassle of installing and maintaining that OS. BUT… a similarly spec’d HP z6 (to the one in the article) costs just a tad more than the baseline price listed, and you KNOW the one they tested doesn’t run $5000. That, and the ability to swap out processors (to updated ones), swap out GPU, add cards for more ports, add many internal hard drives…makes switching to windows pretty enticing.
Unless you use FCX. Then you are beholden.
Shane
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Take away $$$ from the HP for not having an integrated 5K display- that’s not free.
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The monitor isn’t 5K…as was pointed out. And I already have monitors, and if I want new ones, I can get new ones. And if I want to swap them out, I can.
WHAT in this iMac can you swap out? Anything? Hearing rumors even the RAM is no longer something we can upgrade manually…it all has to come pre-packaged.
Sorry, I’ve been a mac fan and mac user for 30 years, and when the MacPro tube came out…my confidence in Apple was shaken. iTunes fiasco making it worse, the FCX bomb (IMHO…mainly how it handled the transition and announcement)…it’s just going downhill.
Shane
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I’m running my current iMac Retina 5K at
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Is that not 5K?
Winston A. Cely
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4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 3 | FCPX | Motion 5 | Compressor 4“If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject, you can create the consoling illusion it has been mastered.” – Stanley Kubrick
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[Shane Ross] “Sorry, I’ve been a mac fan and mac user for 30 years, and when the MacPro tube came out…my confidence in Apple was shaken. iTunes fiasco making it worse, the FCX bomb (IMHO…mainly how it handled the transition and announcement)…it’s just going downhill.
“Then I PRAY it continues to “go downhill”like this!
I’m about 2/3rds of the way through my big end of the year production agenda and I’ve been comfortably multiple days early with every deliverable so far this cycle.
In fact, this past weekend around my work I managed to watch all six movies in the entire Dragon Tattoo trilogy (subtitled foreign language version) on Netflix while waiting for client notes – because I kept getting my edits and review uploads done so rapidly!)
These are generally 2-to3 minute corporate end of the year recaps, 1920×1080 each with an average of 350 or so edits* – weighing in at about 4.5Gigs as an H-264 export. (*timeline index count)
So not super huge, but not trivial. And probably a pretty typical corporate deliverable these days.
My MacBook Pro isn’t breaking a sweat.
THIS is how editing work is supposed to work, in my book.
Smooth, dependable, easy.
What you see as “continuing to go downhill” – I still see as… “burn down the old building, so you can build a super high efficiency new one that will make things way easier every day of your career, from this point on.”
Superb trade in my book!
It metaphorically reminds me a bit of my just arrived two weeks ago, iPhone X.
Out of the box, it actually seemed maybe a bit simple and kinda SMALL – (it replaced my 7plus.)
Now, I can see the point.
But ONLY after a few days to get used to the missing home button – and after I sucked it up and learned the necessary a small passel of new operational commands – and after I had to learn how hold it the proper distance and elevation so that the facial recognition accuracy soared up and up to where it is now – and only after all that, did my understanding of the rest kick in. Now I’m noticing the pure speed of the thing.. How fast iOS runs. How beautiful things look.
And I’m coming to expect the new reality.
Its a matter of setting NEW expectations about what is the best way to do things. Not just mentally comparing what I’m already comfortable with – against something that annoyed me to have to re-set in my thinking.
It’s an interesting evolution.
To me, what you describe as a “downhill slide” feels more like trip back to Aspen.
To each their own. ????
My 2 cents.
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I can understand how some would think that it’s going downhill.
I mean, we got used to all the (almost) yearly refresh back in the cheese grate days.
I just schedule my budgeting to Apple’s releases 😉
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