New Mac Pro? I’m waiting patiently

[Daniel Frome]

What a timely post you’ve made.

I sit writing this on my macbook pro, which I’ve just installed Windows 7 on (dual booted). I’ve done the same with my mac pro tower yesterday also.

Preparing for the inevitable.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Frank Gothmann] “It was the HP config with the Quadro 4000 preinstalled. We will probably get a z820 with a Quadro 6000 in summer as I intend to do all of my 2k PFClean work on this machine and it likes Cuda plus there are those Quadro SDI output options.”

And that’s the thing. When you start talking serious beef with GPUs, the prices sky rocket.

Case in point:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=836959&Q=&is=REG&A=details

Is this the way of “the future”? If so, we are going to need to really try and tell these clients that the budgets need to stop shrinking, and grow, like now. I wonder how that’s going to work out?

Jeremy

[Andrew Richards]

[Gary Huff] “What are you doing that requires you to mess around with DLL files?”

Mostly just FUD on my part. It reminds me of how much legacy junk is sitting beneath the surface on Windows.

[Gary Huff] “How frequently and why? I’ve hit up the Registry my fair share of times too, but only for special circumstances, and since Windows 7, it’s incredibly rare as well.”

I don’t deal with Windows unless something is broken, so it is an unfair sample. For me it is yet another reminder of how not-UNIX it is under there.

[Gary Huff] “I don’t really see this as a problem. I think Windows 7’s interface is actually kind of nice.”

I rest my case (yes, I know that is Win8). What a cluster-f.

[Gary Huff] “Ugly screen fonts: Never noticed this.”

I guess it is mostly subjective, but font rendering on OS X is anti-aliased and consistent with print, while on Windows it isn’t. Take a screenshot of Wikipedia on OS X and Windows and I can tell you which OS is which just from the font rendering. OS X is the one that looks nice.

Best,
Andy

[Jason Brown]

Wow, what a lively discussion I started.

[Steve Connor]

[Jason Brown] “Wow, what a lively discussion I started.”

Most discussions are lively on here, that’s why it’s so popular!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
Adrenalin Television

[Frank Gothmann]

[Jeremy Garchow] “And that’s the thing. When you start talking serious beef with GPUs, the prices sky rocket.”

It is a costly card, but you’ll be just fine with a Quadro 4000 for editing and the cost of the HP together with the Q4000 was cheaper (although just a little bit) then the current Macpro. Also, you can always go with the non Quadro Nvidia cards like the GTX 680 which is really bargain giving it’s power.
As to the Quadra 6000, I would not consider it for an NLE workstation. The Quadro 4000 will work just fine. Also, it looks as if my primary NLE will be Edius which mostly is CUDA ignorant. The Quadro 4000 will come handy for Premier CS6, AE etc. though.
It’s really heavy image processing stuff where the price/performance point of a Q6000 makes economic sense and it’s also those areas where the pay for a couple of jobs justifies such investments.

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Richards] “I rest my case (yes, I know that is Win8). What a cluster-f.”

That’s Microsoft Office, not Windows.

[Jason Brown]

Well from my perspective, I hope they don’t abandon the desktop platform. I’ve been debating whether it was just a mental block or a real issue, and as the Vimeo link someone posted showed…it would be a real problem.

I have been a pc user my whole life until 2 years ago. I felt VERY competent in a pc environment. I have fallen in love with macosx. I’d say that I am 30-40 percent more efficient on my Mac pro than I was ever on a pc. Spotlight is amazing. From what I know about win7 the search is enhanced…but I can’t imagine it’s more powerful than spotlight.

I was misled when I came to Mac, the marketing hype led me to believe that they don’t crash and “always work” but I’ve seen many times where a reboot is necessary and in some cases a reinstall. I’ve had to reset my smc on my MacBook pro a couple times. So they aren’t infallible, but they are better (compared to win xp, IMHO)

[Andrew Richards]

[Gary Huff] “That’s Microsoft Office, not Windows.”

Nope. That’s Windows Explorer in Windows 8. They are putting that train wreck of a UI on the whole OS.

Best,
Andy

[Robert Brown]

I think a lot of people who dread windoze will be pleasantly surprised. Win7’s not bad at all. I have no idea what the next thing is they’re about to roll out but I totally skipped Vista so I don’t really care. I still prefer OSX for editing, many because I like quick look so much but there are ways to get something like that going in Win7.

Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro

https://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos