Mac Pro Pricing

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “es, I’m not interested in throwing out 10K worth of raids just yet.”

Thunderbolt does not require a Thunderbolt RAID.

For instance, we have a mixed fibre and LAN raid.

I can choose to hawk our existing ATTO cards in favor of a TBolt ATTO box, or I can get a PCIe expansion chassis and put our current ATTO cards in there.

Yes, I will spend money either way, but it is how I spend that money in the most flexible way that will help me the most.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Yes, I will spend money either way, but it is how I spend that money in the most flexible way that will help me the most.”

Huh? I don’t even know what that means.

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Huh? I don’t even know what that means.”

And I thought that was your most brilliant posting to date.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Christian Schumacher]

Then one has to factor in the new ThB IOs, external HDDs, that surely will add up!
Truth is MacPros (and iMacs and PCs) are going to go along with the new MacPro in this ride.
But I’m hopeful this new development could bring some needed benefits to other macs too.
Apple should be praised for their fresh investing on creative power, despite their often disruptive manners.
So they have the MacPro painted in black for a reason, that’s due to a monstrous money black hole…
Wait until you see the special translucent Apple’s HQ edition! 😉

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Thunderbolt does not require a Thunderbolt RAID.”

I understand that, but for me it would require some sort of Tblt to PCIe expansion case for 3 cards, and that’s a thousand dollars I wouldn’t have to spend on any other workstation out there. Brett was asking why I needed the PCIe connection and the reason is my investment in PCIe raids.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “I understand that, but for me it would require some sort of Tblt to PCIe expansion case for 3 cards, and that’s a thousand dollars I wouldn’t have to spend on any other workstation out there. Brett was asking why I needed the PCIe connection and the reason is my investment in PCIe raids.”

But if you spend flexibly, it will be the most flexible.

In all honesty, I get it. TBolt will have an initial “investment” tax.

What PCIe cards do you have?

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “What PCIe cards do you have?”

ATTO 680 controller(raid + LTO drive)
Arreca controller (older raid)
blackmagic decklink i/0

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Bret Williams]

Connectivity aside, there’s the mac mini for that. But I concur, a headless iMac or true MacMini Pro would be a wonderful answer. Many of us already had displays, and needed more connectivity, when we were forced to go to the iMac.

But really, I have all the connectivity I need, barely, for my little suite. I’m running an esata raid (connected to USB 3 to esata cable) a pegasus raid (hooked to TB) a second display (hooked to pegasus via mdp to DVD cable) a BM Ultrastudio Express (to other TB) hooked up to a FSI LM-2140W via SDI and a USB 3 raid (connected to USB 3) and a Blu-Ray burner and various mini usb 3 drives. Generally, I have to disconnect something like the Blu-Ray to plug in a clients usb drive, but no biggie. I could get a hub I guess.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “ATTO 680 controller(raid + LTO drive)
Arreca controller (older raid)
blackmagic decklink i/0”

You’d also have to check for “thunderbolt aware” drivers.

ATTO is set, not sure about the Areca.

No doubt it will require a bit of coin.

At least all of your TBolt v1 devices won’t be slower than the new Tbolt v2 devices that are sure to come to market? 🙂

[Paul Dickin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “If you look at this page, then look towards the bottom, you will see the desktop version, the mobile version, then the OEM version (called the A300 here).
https://www.fireprographics.com/adobe/index.asp
That seems to be what would be in the MacPro if it is a closed GPU system, right?
“
Hi
According to that page’s links the A300/A320 are ‘”accelerated processors” only using DDD3 memory, so don’t seem to fit the info that Apple have sneak previewed.