Mac Pro – Thoughts? Winner or Loser?

[Julian Smith]

Yay for me

[Steve Connor]

Perhaps you can help us – how well will Adobe Apps support Open CL on the AMD cards in it when it comes out? If there is no NVidia and therefore CUDA Option will there be a massive performance benefit from using a PC instead of it?

Steve Connor

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

[Andrew Kimery]

Need real world performance and price info first.

I guessed it would be a ‘super mac mini’ w/only external expansion via Thunderbolt and I was close. I got the shape wrong, lol. The industrial design is very interesting (ex. all components share a single heat sink which is the hollow center of the tube) but needs some real world testing to see if it’s worth it or not.

[Craig Shields]

Can’t you use one of the Thunderbolt ports and a Thunderbolt chassis for any needed expansion?

[Julian Smith]

Exactly

[Frank Gothmann]

100 per cent fail on every level.
I am super happy we decided to leave Apple behind. It would be very, very tough to come up with something more compromised and stupid as a workstation replacement.

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[David Mathis]

Can we upgrade the video card? Can we add an external DVD drive? Why does this “thing” look like something of a Star Trek movie? Inquiring minds, mine included need to know! At least it will be made in the USA, have to give them credit for that.

[Julian Smith]

Each to their own

[Ken Zukin]

Care to elaborate a bit on that, Frank??

[Phil Hoppes]

Loser – for my needs at least. For video only I’m sure it should work quite well. I do 3D work. ALL 3D renders for production on CPU cores. Quadro and all of the video card engines are nice for fast preview rendering but non of the CGI graphic rendering engines do final render on graphic cards because all of the shaders and effects needed are not supported. For me, in the end, it’s CPU threads. This MacPro is limited to a single CPU. No matter what it costs I’m sure I can build my own Dual Xeon 12 core machine for what Apple wants for a single. Plus, your limited to ONLY AMD graphics. If that works for you great. If not, your hosed.

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