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Interesting Blog post From Walter Biscardi
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[Mark Suszko] “How long should I wait?”
Wait till June. Ivy Bridge is coming by then if not earlier. If this is for a decade, get this year’s tech instead of last year’s.
[Mark Suszko] “The performance stats between the two high end processor and graphcis card choices don’t seem all that different to me, so how important is it to buy the more expensive of the two, assuming I have maximum RAM and HD space?”
My rule for iMacs is order the biggest of everything you can since most of that is not something you can swap out later. More GPU RAM and a hyper threaded CPU is worth it. Buy your RAM separately to make up the difference.
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[Andrew Richards] “He uses good ol’ Gig-E, and noted in his post that the 2011 iMacs once again have jumbo frame support for best results with his Small Tree system.
But as an aside, ATTO has a pair of 10Gb-E Thunderbolt boxes coming soon.”
He must connect via 10GIG too, see his blog post and mentioning of a 10Gig Ethernet switch.
Quote: “And it’s not just that we have some faster products now with the new 48TB RAID and the 10GigE switch from Small Tree.”[Andrew Richards] “But as an aside, ATTO has a pair of 10Gb-E Thunderbolt boxes coming soon.”
Yes, but no pricing for that one is available
[Andrew Richards] “[Frank Gothmann] “Decklink SDI 280,-”
He’s doing HD work, and has a collection of Kona 3 cards already.”
Decklink SDI does HD. I assume the Konas he has are in use, which is why he mentioned buying ioXTs if new iMacs come in.
[Andrew Richards] “I’m not saying the iMac is a bad choice or wouldn’t be great for the work he has planned for it, just that not comparing the iMac to its market peers is an incomplete analysis of his options for outfitting his shop. Heck, I’d buy the iMacs too, but I’m an admitted OS X partisan and I’ll go out of my way to avoid Windows if I can manage it.”
Yes, as I have said: if the OS is relevant the iMac is probably the best and only choice. Certainly not a Mac Mini.
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Last year I cut an entire 1 hour TV show on my macbook pro with Media Composer 6. An iMac is quite similar hardware, so as far as Avid is concerned this is a no brainer. Good for him – smart move.
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Not sure why it is so interesting? He really didn’t mention anything.
I can say the same I have saw latest 3D Studio Max and WOW!
WOW what?I think his WOW goes to this “Support for multiple frame rates conform from Apple® Final Cut Pro® XML”
hihihihihi
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Wow future?
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