New Mac Pros next week!

[Ryan Holmes]

+1 to this. I hope it’s true.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
vimeo.com/ryanholmes

[Chris Borjis]

I’ve seen the part numbers posted (see davinci forum)

this is great news!

[Jan Maitland]

It’s a funny thing but I find this news bittersweet. I’ve spent so many of the past few months wrapping my head around a switch away from Mac Pros to PCs (b/c of the unknown future of the Mac Pro platform) that, now, I find myself less than thrilled by these rumors. I’d finally gotten comfortable with the idea and then this happens! LoL.

Moving my facility away from Apple computers was an easier pill to swallow when it was Apple making the decision for me. Now, not so much…

[Tom Daigon]

Jan, I agree completely!

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.7.3
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Jim Wiseman]

I never thought they would drop it. The Xeon’s just came out in April. Glad my software and hardware has a future!

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Tom Daigon]

Im happy for you Jim.

But still making my move to PC land.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.7.3
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Robert Brown]

[Jim Wiseman] “Apple Insider, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac are all calling for the update to the Mac Pro next week at Worldwide Developers Conference. Model numbers and prices (AU) have leaked. One is to have server functionality. Check out: “

I’m guessing they will have 13 cores. I mean they already did 12.

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

https://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos

[Andrew Stone]

Jan,

Agree with you 100%. I was on the verge of purchasing a custom built PC running 64 bit Windows 7 to run Resolve, Premiere Pro, etc after having been on Macs since ’89.

Threw in the towel with Apple last year with FCPX and their poor attitude towards the pro market.

I decided to wait until after WWDC before making the PC purchase just in case Apple pulls a rabbit out of their hat with Jobs gone.

This rumor announcement is a mixed blessing. It will have Thunderbolt and the new E5 Intel CPU by the sounds of it. It will outpace the other i7 PC boxes on the market unless they have dual CPUs in them. The specs are quite amazing. And maybe Apple will do a mea culpa to the pro market but maybe not.

Still not sure which way I am going to go but this coming week will be the true decision point.

-Andrew

[Steve Kallevik]

Sorry guys, but the Mac Pro will NEVER ‘outpace’ the PC counterparts because Apple severely limits the number of PCIe slots and lanes. My HP Z800 has 6 PCIe slots with 3 x16 lanes. Mac Pro has only 4 slots with only 2 x16 and a x4 and x1(maybe x4, can’t recall). In addition, Apple limits the number of Ram slots so the new Mac Pro will be slower than its PC versions because the new E5 Xeons are Quad-channel which means you need 8 sticks of ram per CPU to run at full speed. I also have 8 SAS connections in my Z800 in addition to the 6 Sata.

Btw, Thunderbolt aka LightPeak is already out on PCs so that advantage is already gone; although, PCs have more PCIe slots so TB is not needed in the desktops anyways.

Last I checked, HP gives 25% off their Z800/Z820 line without asking.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Thunderbolt on PCs are still 6 months behind a workable implementation, be it at controller/driver level. That’s fine, let the market and offerings mature before jumping into such an expensive connection.

Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire – Digital Production Services