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iMac Pro 12/14
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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.
“For you perhaps, for many other people definitely not, would not switch to PC and Windows if you paid me, I love living in my Apple walled garden 🙂
\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka
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Another review. One of the more practical ones as it relates to editing.
https://www.fxguide.com/featured/exclusive-hands-on-with-the-1st-of-the-new-apple-pro-lineup/
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Sorry, just explain that one. How isn’t the monitor 5K? I thought it shipped with a resolution of 5120×2880?
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Yes Bill…we get it. Apple is “Mary Poppins” to you…Practically perfect in every way. Can do no wrong, at all, about anything, ever. Everything they do fits PERFECTLY in your world, so therefor everyone elses needs don’t matter, and everyone else is wrong, and living in the stone age. Headphone jacks are for Neanderthals…machines that allow the end user to upgrade or add ANYTHING to it are antiques.
Apple walks on water…
Got it.
(Why do I even bother responding here?)
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “Yes Bill…we get it. Apple is “Mary Poppins” to you…Practically perfect in every way. “
Dude, chill out.
Yes, X works incredibly well for me. So I say so.
I say so specifically – and I say why. It’s getting the work I need to do most often – done much faster than ever for me.
Yes, you feel emotionally betrayed by Apple and feel they are not meeting your needs as an editor and should do something different and YOU say so here. Regularly.
We are two different types of editors. Working in different parts of the industry. With different goals. Different skill sets. Different preferences.
If editors reading here need to get work done like mine – than my “in the seat” experience is valid for them.
If other editors do work more like you (and especially if they still feel “abandoned by Apple like you appear to) then your posting about THAT gives them the benefit of your opinions and commiseration on that stuff.
Nothing wrong with a spectrum of opinions, is there?
Happy Holidays regardless.
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It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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Buy pages are live.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-pro
PS: So the review configuration that all of the reviewers and vloggers tested is about $10K (pad + mouse is extra).
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Lance Bachelder] “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?”
Really? I cannot find the 1TB EVO 960 Pro for less than $619, a bit more than $200.
I also cannot find anyone who makes a 4TB NVMe M.2 drive (or for that matter a 4TB EVO Pro version in any form factor).
I think the sweet spot for the iMac is 64GB, 10-Core, 2TB system, 16GB Vega 64 for $7,999.99, but I am not sure if the extra 1TB of SSD is worth it. I expect to use it with a 10Gb/s NAS with 48TB of RAID-Z2 storage, so 1TB might be enough.
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[Shane Ross] “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.
“I have built many machines over the years, and I have never upgraded the CPU after the machine was built (as any meaningful CPU upgrade also requires a new motherboard). I have on occasion upgraded the RAM, but even that has been rare. You also do not consider that those other machines will be much louder than the iMac Pro. I would much rather have a quieter machine connected via 10Gb Ethernet to a server with more disk space, rather than have that all in my work space.
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[Bob Zelin] “once again – he mentions that it’s $4999. His configuration is NOT $4999 – it’s much more expensive
“The CPU upgrade in his machine costs $800 and the GPU upgrade is $600. Those are the two that would have the most impact on performance. For an extra $800 one could also upgrade the RAM to 64GB. Moving to 128GB of RAM is quite pricey ($2,400 over the base).
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