New Mac Pro AND a FCP-X shout out. Happy now?

[Herb Sevush]

[Rick Lang] ” I found the corresponding Intel Xeon E5 chips for each model except for the 3.0GHz 8-core.

4-core: E5-1620 v2 1-socket 3.7GHz cache 10MB power 130W
6-core: ES-1650 v2 1-socket 3.5GHz cache 12MB power 130W
12-core: E5-2697 v2 2-socket 2.7GHz cache 30MB power 130W
“

Their is an equivalent Dell work station, the T3600 with the 6 core E5-1650, Dual firepro w5000 GPu, 16 Gigs 1600MHz Ram, 256 Gig SSD with 1 Terr Hard Drive. I’m sure it is not as power efficient, as quiet or as small, and it is loaded with PCIe instead of Tbolt 2, which in my case is a big plus. Cost is $3467. At $4000 the Tube, with it’s much faster boot drive and higher memory speed, is price competitive.

I’m sure their is an HP equivalent as well.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Alban Egger]

For those mentioning and thinking of iMacs in comparison to the new MacPro: consider the new 15″ MacBOOK PRO has the same graphics as the best 21″ iMac. IMacs have mobile graphiccards!! They work fine nowadays in 1080 and in proxyres. But in 1,5 years you will get a 4K project or at least some 4K footage….and then you will think if €1000 additional investment on a machine that last 3-4 years wouldn’t have been better.

I have the same thoughts, mind you. 3k is a lot, especially if you have no monitors yet. 256 GB storage is hardly enough and 12 GB is definitely not enough. So it is a pricey machine. But honestly i expected worse. And not many years ago we would have killed for such specs below 5.000…….