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New Mac Pro
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[Steve Connor] “As we know that the prices are more or less the same as the existing models I’m not expecting a MacProX!”
What Apple doesn’t off that other PC companies do, is i7 or i5 Tower configs (quad cores).
This means iMac power with PCIe slots in a traditional tower design.
When people say PC’s are cheaper, I think they aren’t buying Xeon’s they are buying the dramatically cheaper i7 line, putting in a decent GPU and getting to work. This is a market the is served by the iMac with Apple. It is a hole in their line, and maybe that’s why they are going to release?
Stirrin’ the pot,
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Multiple GPUs broke FCS3.
“Actually, multiple GPUs worked just fine on FCS3. Yu just needed to know how to do it. My 8 Core is a 4 monitor system (plus broadcast monitor out) running on an NVidia 285 plus the ATI card that came with the system. Motion and other GPU driven programs address the NVidia card, and the ATI supports a 3rd monitor (which I use in FCP for scopes, TC, and mixer) and a Wacom Cintiq.
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[Gary Huff] “It’s trendy to do so. Makes you part of the “in” crowd.”
Uh well I didn’t do it to be in. I have a couple of programs that will probably never be ported over to Mac and are to demanding to use in any of those Win for Mac programs. Also I found Nuke runs better in Win 7 then OSX. It seems to keep eating up all of the memory in OSX and bogs, but quite a bit better with the exact same projects on the same computer in WIn 7.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Sandeep Sajeev] “Windows has come a long way and that’s not something I ever figured would happen, back in the day when I had a clamshell Macbook running OS9.
“Exactly competition makes everybody better. I also found there are many little apps and tweaks you can do make Win 7 feel a lot more like what you’re used to. I’m not trying to sell it I’m just saying I was pleasantly surprised when I installed 7 and even more so after I started to Google and then fix some of the things that bothered me.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Chris Harlan] “Actually, multiple GPUs worked just fine on FCS3. Yu just needed to know how to do it.”
Show off!
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Robert Brown] “[Chris Harlan] “Actually, multiple GPUs worked just fine on FCS3. Yu just needed to know how to do it.”
Show off!”
But that was just more than one card in the box, right Chris? Or are you saying that you were able to link them to each other for better performance?
NVIDIA calls it Maximus technology, but the point is graphics RAID, so to speak.
That’s the thing I think he’s saying that Mac doesn’t support…which I didn’t think it does…but hey, you’re clearly ahead of the curve here. 🙂
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
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[Chris Harlan] “Actually, multiple GPUs worked just fine on FCS3.”
Mmm, OK. I’ll go with “just fine”.
It certainly didn’t offer anything in terms of performance gains like CS6/Resolve can do today.
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[Steve Connor] “Nothing has changed, Apple have never given roadmaps on hardware, yet vast amounts of people including many on here still use their kit. The ONLY thing they have done differently is EOL FCP classic and re-imagine their editing software and it’s this that has lead to all the “sky is falling” speculation.”
You know who else doesn’t publish roadmaps? Everyone. HP’s and Dell’s paper launch of their E5 towers in the past couple months is not a roadmap. People complain about Apple not laying out some multi-year plan, but where is everyone else’s? Intel is where we get PC roadmaps, and that info is as useful for predicting Mac guts as it is for predicting anyone else’s.
The difference with Apple is that we all see their financials and we see they don’t live and die by the Mac anymore. The other guys, they don’t have massive post-PC businesses to overshadow their PCs and servers, so the armchair CEOs of the Internet just figure they’ll keep doing what they’ve been doing to make (far less) money.
[Steve Connor] “If people want roadmaps then they shouldn’t be on Macs in the first place”
Please, anyone, please post the roadmaps from any of Apple’s competitors. Over-eager marketers paper-launching the next rev of their products by a month or two is not a roadmap.
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[Robert Brown] “[Chris Harlan] “Actually, multiple GPUs worked just fine on FCS3. Yu just needed to know how to do it.”Show off!”
But that was just more than one card in the box, right Chris? Or are you saying that you were able to link them to each other for better performance?
NVIDIA calls it Maximus technology, but the point is graphics RAID, so to speak.
That’s the thing I think he’s saying that Mac doesn’t support…which I didn’t think it does…but hey, you’re clearly ahead of the curve here. 🙂
“No. No SLI or anything like it. Apple is tragically behind on that kind of thing. No, the quote that Herb was referring to, and the problem attached to it that Jeremy was referencing, had to do with Apple actively selling multiple cards for more than two monitors, and that that configuration crashed FCS quite badly. Turned out–and I think I probably learned it from the cow–you needed to have mismatched cards to make more than two monitors work on FCP.
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[Robert Brown] “[Chris Harlan] “Actually, multiple GPUs worked just fine on FCS3. Yu just needed to know how to do it.”
Show off!”
Nope. I think I just learned how to do it by reading the cow, while letting others bleed their knuckles for me.
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