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New Mac Pro
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[Herb Sevush] “On the other hand I’m still not convinced the refresh is happening. I was at the NYC Adobe road show yesterday. As part of the show HP had a rep showing off the Z1 and a new specially rigged out Z820 made for Red workflows and he was grinning from ear to there. He didn’t say anything specific but he hinted that he expected a lot of interest in these products after June 10th. To support that Tekserve, the largest Mac pro video dealer in NY, is the company building and supporting the HP / Red workstation. As far as I know this is the first non Mac computer ever sold at Tekserve. I spoke to Matt Cohen of Tekserve for a bit and he didn’t profess to have any inside knowledge about what’s coming up, but the fact that he’s looking to diversify says a lot. As an aside the HP/Red workstation was HOT!!!”
To recap, an HP rep reps HP’s latest and impressive gear and tells customers to get excited.
Tekserve is diversifying as the broader video market is diversifying.
Plus, I think you just outed the rat.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “To recap, an HP rep reps HP’s latest and impressive gear and tells customers to get excited. “
He specifically mentioned June 10th as a time when he thought more customers would be interested in what he had to sell. Make of that what you will.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Plus, I think you just outed the rat.”
I didn’t out anyone, don’t know what you’re referring to, everything I heard was said in public in front of many people.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “He specifically mentioned June 10th as a time when he thought more customers would be interested in what he had to sell. Make of that what you will.”
I’ll take a guess. Apple will release a MacPro or replacement at WWDC. Since all of a sudden multiple GPU computing is the buzz word, Apple’s replacement might not support multiple GPUs if Apple remains true to their design as they have since the return of the g3 tower. Since he works for HP and HP can support a massive amount of PCIe hardware in one machine, he thinks that people will flock to the cool design and raw performance of the z820. In short, he believes in the product and is having some fun with it.
[Herb Sevush] “I didn’t out anyone, don’t know what you’re referring to, everything I heard was said in public in front of many people.”
Im sorry, Herb it was a joke. I forgot an emoticon. I was referring to this post that was also said in jest:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/35670
Cheers.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Since all of a sudden multiple GPU computing is the buzz word, Apple’s replacement might not support multiple GPUs if Apple remains true to their design as they have since the return of the g3 tower”
“Configure your Mac Pro with high-performance PCI Express graphics cards from AMD. The ATI Radeon HD 5770 is up to 5x faster than the previous-generation standard graphics card. Or select the ATI Radeon HD 5870 for even more advanced graphics work. Configure your Mac Pro with two cards to power up to six displays simultaneously for visualization projects and large display walls.”
From the Apple Store MacPro configurator.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “I agree with this totally. The EOL of Legacy made made everything Apple did look ominous, and if there is a refresh then it obviously has been in the works for some time. However I haven’t heard any official announcements yet, and just cause your paranoid it doesn’t mean your wrong.
“I’m confident the Apple “leaky” marketing strategy seems to be in full force at the moment, at least this time next week we should know!
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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[Herb Sevush] “He specifically mentioned June 10th as a time when he thought more customers would be interested in what he had to sell. Make of that what you will.
“I might be wrong but wouldn’t an HP rep be the last person to know what Apples plans are?
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Apple’s replacement might not support multiple GPUs if Apple remains true to their design as they have since the return of the g3 tower.”
Historical footnote: my brother-in-law is partly to blame for the dawn of the 3-slot era. He was asked by Steve to research the average number of slots in use across that tier of the product line, and the answer was 1.1. Steve said, fine, round it up to 1.5 and double it: 3 slots.
My boy is a pretty humble dude, and I can’t imagine he’d make something like this up — especially because he only told me this story after I was ranting to him about Apple cutting the number of slots. (My Mac at the time had six slots, five in use.)
Sweet guy, but nicknamed The Executioner. He also killed off Apple’s printers and scanners. People got very nervous when he became the head of their group….
Anyway, we actually walked the floor together at NAB in 1998, where I brought him to the basement to see the demo of Macromedia Final Cut running on Windows. They were throwing out t-shirts and said “Last one!” — and he grabbed it for me. A true mensch. I still have the shirt.
He didn’t even mind me yelling at him about the slots…probably because I yelled about so much in those days. Believe it or not, I’m much calmer now.
Anyway, that’s my boy.
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
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[Steve Connor] “I might be wrong but wouldn’t an HP rep be the last person to know what Apples plans are?”
Yes, you are wrong. They buy from the same vendors, they hire the same people, they are intensely interested in what the other party is doing.
It’s in their financial interests to know, and, as always, money talks.Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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…and the “leakiness” continues
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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[Herb Sevush] “From the Apple Store MacPro configurator. ”
Just because someone says you should jump, doesn’t mean you should throw yourself off of the Sears Tower as fun as that feeling of flying might be.
Multiple GPUs broke FCS3.
CS6 Support certain configs, as does Resolve.
None of those are two ATI 5870s.
Jeremy
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