It’s official! New Mac Pro

[Lance Moody]

An earlier poster mentioned CPU specifically as he struggled to think of a non issue, ANY non-issue to complain about. Hilariously, he first tendered the idea that the machine was “too small”!

The CPU has never been upgradable on the pro machines officially.

[Chris Jacek]

[Lance Moody] “external storage is the main way that most actual real editors doing actual real work do things anyway.”

So did you feel compelled to make a ridiculous statement just to support you claim of there being many ridiculous statements? Your assertion is absurd, condescending, and myopic.

I guess using internal drive arrays is the mark of an amateur? How naive of us resist additional cables that can short out, and don’t want to spend extra money on enclosures.

Professor, Producer, Editor
and former Apple Employee

[Andrew Kimery]

To be fair Bill, until we see real world performance we don’t know how may horses this thing has. Yes, it’s leaps and bounds better than the 2010 era Mac Pros that Apple is selling today, but that’s not saying much.

Honestly, to your point Bill, I would’ve been surprised if Apple just released a tower w/upgraded guts. I know many people wanted that but it just doesn’t jive with the direction Apple has been headed the last 7 or 8 years. I think Apple sees big desktops like that as being akin to the ‘big iron’ SGI machines from a decade ago. Apple wasn’t in that market then and I don’t think they want to be in it now.

Apple helped usher in ‘desktop revolutions’ for editing, publishing, music recording, color correction and DVD authoring at times when few ‘serious pros’ used off-the-shelf desktops for those tasks. The people that really need the most power will need to look elsewhere, but IMO that’s always been the case w/Mac hardware.

I’ll reserve judgment until price and real world performance is known, but for now, as someone that doesn’t need best-of-the-best speed, I’m intrigued.

[Chris Jacek]

[Bill Davis] “Oh well. At least the forum looks like it might be going two for two. X waa a disaster right up until everyone started realizing out it actually wasn’t, at ALL.”

I think there is still a compelling argument that FCPX has been a disaster, especially when viewed as an overall event in the post-production industry. The software as it stands in its current state (still unacceptable to many of us) is only part of the equation. Much of the damage was done upon release, and at best, Apple is still playing catch-up in its effort to regain its position in the nonlinear space.

Professor, Producer, Editor
and former Apple Employee

[Jamie Franklin]

“Officially”, “unofficially”…it was possible.

Now it’s neither.

[Steve Connor]

Don’t forget it’s got superfast wifi to get all your data to PRISM much quicker 🙂

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Clint Wardlow]

[Bill Davis] “This place is just so amazing. Are we all really this old and intolerant of change?”

I don’t think it is necessarily being intolerant of change. It is change that doesn’t fit in with their needs. I can see someone who was holding out for a machine that could be upgraded to something comparable to a high-dollar HP workstation might be disappointed.

Hey, the new mac pro could work for me. I am reserving judgement. But that is only me.

However, you have to admit, that for the user that needs high-end graphics cards or the ability to upgrade their system as they go, the new mac pro could leave something to be desired.

[Ricardo Marty]

You can use one of those toilet paper holder too!Or a bount roll holder The cabinet type.

Ricardo

[Ricardo Marty]

Well you can also use it as a paper weight.

Ricardo

[Ricardo Marty]

Well maybe in computers it doesn’t.

Ricardo