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New Mac Pro
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[Robert Brown] “I have a dual boot on my MacPro. Win 7 works fine I don’t know why people hate it so bad.”
It’s trendy to do so. Makes you part of the “in” crowd.
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[Walter Soyka] “Sidebar — let’s say there’s some new Mac Pro sizzle core action days away from release. Who here will place an order immediately? Who here used to buy Mac Pros, but will now stick with iMacs or MBPs instead”
It’s rather dependent on specs, if Cuda is going to happen for real, if openCL is going to be further supported on beefier AMDs.
I, personally, am going to need the fastest mobile system I can get in the coming months. I am going to embrace Thunderbolt in a short time here, I think, so I imagine a laptop is in my future. If the new WWDC laptops prove weird, then I’ll just get the fastest 17″ available.
After the brief hiatus from the office, upon return, we’ll have to huddle up and take a knee. We are still undecided on our post fcs3 future so there’s really no fantastic reason to order on day zero, but we will have to soon to start the next phase.
There needs to be a function and reliability update to fcpx or two, Smoke will get a good testing, cs6 will work better with a new laptop and hopefully the new macs will allow better desktop performance by text hack or otherwise, but honestly the media management isn’t where we need it be and it’s a shame as I like cs6.
I don’t need multiple GPUs and Raid cards, one of each is fine. I do need fibre channel though, and as of today the ATTO thunderbolt to fibre cards aren’t here yet. I do believe there’s a sanLINK one, but I’d rather stick with ATTO as they have proven themselves to me consistently over the years.
So right now, let’s say if we went all iMacs (which I don’t think we will, but if) it pretty much renders the SAN to a LAN. That’s not as fun as fibre. 🙂
If the new MacPro’s have legit PCIe, then it will just be a card swap. I am really hoping for a more rack friendly design, but I’m not holding my breath on that one.
It will be interesting to see what actually is released and at that point, all of us can legitimately move on to what’s next. Tim Wilson, I’d throw a few duckets in the Techniques forum, too. 😉
Jeremy
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[Gary Huff] “It’s trendy to do so. Makes you part of the “in” crowd.
“Times have changed right Gary?
When I bought my Mac I was made fun of at the time by “computer” people.Most everybody I knew had a PC
That was the whole point of the “Think Different” campaign. Because everybody else was thinking pc.
But I have never cared much what other people are doing.
It’s mostly about what I want to do, and what’s working for me.
Now that all these people have figured out what I already knew years ago, it’s not about trends for me.
As LL would say ” I been here for Years” : )
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I’ll be waiting for some real world tests relating to FCPX as well as encoding.
Since it seems Apple may be updating most of their line, I’d have to see what they do with the iMac as well.
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[tony west] “When I bought my Mac I was made fun of at the time by “computer” people.”
Did you buy your Mac to do editing/creative work on or to surf the web and tinker with?
Back in the day, it was generally understood that Macs were better for graphics/video (even though I couldn’t afford one at that time and made do with Windows 98SE). I would assume that was just friends in your circle as opposed to those in the creative field.
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[Daniel Frome] “Ever since buying my i7 macbook pro I rarely used it, as mobility always trumped CPU power in the last 2 years of my job.”
Having the i7 Quad Core 17″ MacBook Pro is great for DIT work (ExpressCard is handy here, but that Belkin dock will be great to have come this fall) and it’s beefy enough to easily do all my editing tasks on the road. Even then, however, I still like to sit at my desk and work when I’m home. 24″ trumps 17″ every time, and I just like the feel of sitting down to a typical desktop to work. Right now I have a Windows PC that has performed excellently for me, but as I work more and more in FCP7 for work, I find I’d like to not have to dig out my laptop when I get home to open projects.
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[Chris Conlee] “I’m betting that Apple did indeed plan on killing off the Mac Pro”
Even if they told us, I’m not sure we’d believe them — but I still can’t imagine that’s true. TALK about it, yes. Of course. PLAN on it? Not a chance.
Did nobody look this up? Same interval now as between the first two models of the Mac Pro.
This actually used to happen with FCP too. It settled into a rhythm of two years apart, almost to the day.
2003: New version.
2004: Apple is killing FCP!
2005: New version.
2006: Apple is killing FCP!
2007: New version. Of course it turns out that this is the release where Apple killed FCP. They just kept selling it so nobody noticed…but still…
2008: Apple is killing FCP!
2009: New version; aka, patch release provided as FCP was in fact circling the drain.
2010: Apple is killing FCP!
2011: New version, the one that hopefully made clear that FCP was EOL’d in 2007….but still…the two year interval.The point being that 2 years is a very important interval, one that has been repeated many times — including between the first 2 models of the Mac Pro…and the previous one and this one.
Of course there’s still plenty of time for Apple to make us look like idiots. They’re masters at making EVERYONE who predicts ANYTHING be at least a little wrong about SOMETHING.
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
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[tony west] “As LL would say ” I been here for Years” : )”
Don’t call it a come back?
He also said, “Pink cookies in a plastic bag, getting crushed by buildings”.
So, there’s that…
😉
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You’re right of course, especially about the new MacPro,but it’s so much FUN to speculate even when you’re wrong some of the time.
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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So why let autodesk etc humiliate themselves with all those lovely posters of smoke & co running on an iMac? I literally haven’t seen any promotional shots of any 2012 mac software that isn’t sheepishly running on an iMac or a mbp..
This theory of the quiet U turn makes sense to me, also it’s more entertaining than the alternative..
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