Mac Pro and XDR starts on Dec 10

[Eric Santiago]

[Rich Rubasch] “But that might take the sting off the cost of the new Mac Pro if I could get a couple thousand for my $4500 iMac Pro which is a little over a year old. And I’d have a truly upgradable machine.”

I will def keep my old 2013 for other tasks.
Heck, I still have 2009 loaded with PCI cards.

[Rich Rubasch]

I have a 2009 MacPro Tower flashed to a 5,1 and souped up to the max that can still run Final Cut 7 and other older apps with a dual boot SSD with ElCapitan and High Sierra. Got to keep that around. But my workhorse is the iMac Pro which is great, but if they will give me something in a trade in that is worth my while it makes more sense to me to have the new MacPro which would be upgradable.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com

[Steve Connor]

Just configured mine – bit on the high side ☺

[Rich Rubasch]

I’m coming in around $9100. 8 core seems to be enough and I assume I can buy third party RAM for this thing? Went with 32 gig and the upgraded video card. Plus Apple Care.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com

[Oliver Peters]

OK, it’s live.

Base is still $5,999 (w/o display, AppleCare, wheels)

“Reasonable” configuration – 16-core / 96GB RAM / Vega II Duo / 2TB SSD – $14,999
(w/o display, AppleCare, wheels)

Maxed out $52,599 with wheels & Afterburner (w/o display, AppleCare)
Also that’s still not with an 8TB SSD, which is coming. So the real max price is actually a bit higher.

But, you get 6% cash back with an Apple Card until the end of the year 🙂

– Oliver

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[Rich Rubasch]

I still think I only need the 8 core with 128 gigs of RAM. Are there four total RAM slots or 6? Hard to tell…if there are 6 slots then the 8 core makes no sense, unless Apple has some new slick way of handling 6 slots of RAM in an 8 core machine.

So then it would be a 12 core model (slower base processor speed) with 96 gigs but I would buy it with 32 gigs and buy aftermarket RAM assuming I can.

Then the upgrade to the Vega II with 32 Gigs….I can upgrade later…its a MacPro right?

1TB HD to start and Apple Care and it’s around $10k. Not terrible since I know it will future proof me and be upgradable for another decade (retirement).

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com

[Tobias Heilmann-schuricht]

In Touch Media GmbH
Germany

[Jeremy Garchow]

At that price, might as well get a 10-pack of MacPro!

Benchmark testers are going to have their hands full with the amount of options now available. Will they even be able to benchmark a fully loaded MacPro?

What software needs 65,000 Euros of computer to run at its peak?

Do I need two single GPUs or one double GPU? Or one single and two doubles? Or two doubles and a single? Of (gasp) two doubles? Or do I need to wait for the single one that’s unavailable becomes it’s faster than the other four combined?

Do I need Afterburner for working with ProRes (not RAW)?

Lots of questions, but it sure looks cool!

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Jeremy Garchow] “What software needs 65,000 Euros of computer to run at its peak?”

Heavy duty simulation/CG

[Jeremy Garchow] “Do I need Afterburner for working with ProRes (not RAW)?”

Do you need an Afterburner card for working on Prores now?

[Oliver Peters]

The first few hands on articles:

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/2232-first-impressions-of-the-new-mac-pro-and-the-pro-display-xdr-used-on-real-world-projects-by-james-tonkin-at-hangman

https://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2019/12/10/macpro/

– Oliver

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