OT: Apple to drop Mac Pro?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Frank Gothmann] ” I cannot get any external cpu or gpu boxes, there are hardly any raid enclosures let alone networking, fibre etc.”

Not here yet, but it’s all coming soon.

https://www.magma.com/thunderbolt.asp

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/thunderbolt/

Now:

https://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?m=192&region=en-global&rsn1=40&rsn3=47

https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10549

Jeremy

[Paul Jay]

There a so many blind and uninformed response here im not going to bother responding to them!!

[Kim Krause]

thats for sure…i can say with great certainty that the mac pro in its current form will no longer exist. some of its technology is already being pushed into other machines and it will become obsolete in the next 18 months. don’t believe me? save this email and wait! my crystal ball is seldom wrong…

[Gary Huff]

[Craig Seeman] We’re actually not that far away from that. I’ve seen people work with iPad as a mirrored desktop and you now have a touch screen to hold in your hand while you watch the bigger version on the monitor.

I could easily see controlling FCPX from this. I think FCPX would need to have some more accessibility improves ranging from gesture commands to more onscreen buttons.

But you can already do this. And who is using it? You? Kim Krause? Who is using it in an everyday work environment?

I can see it being great as a touch control interface for color correction, but for routine editing tasks? Seems like a big pain in the ass if you ask me.

[James Mortner]

I guess the principle is sound for any NLE. What Im wondering is how cumbersome the actual editing process seemed…

[Brad Bussé]

From the first Magma link: “Three PCIe 2.0 expansion slots (Two x8 and One x4)”.

Exactly how can you run two x8 and one x4 PCIe cards which all share a single TB port operating at the speed of a single 4x?

[Craig Seeman]

TB Port is two channels but that still wouldn’t be enough and I’m not sure if a single device can grab both channels.

[Frank Gothmann]

All cards share the bandwith ie. with TB they won’t give you full performance. It’s the same thing Magma’s been doing with their PCI Express and regular PCIe expansion boxes for years. They are all external, mobil and, in the case of the regular PCIe expansion, faster. And they all have some quirks and compatibility issues every now and then depending on what cards you want to use and what you use simultaneously.

[David Lawrence]

Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) nails it:

https://www.marco.org/2011/11/02/scaling-down-the-mac-pro

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[Chris Harlan]

[David Lawrence] “Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) nails it:

https://www.marco.org/2011/11/02/scaling-down-the-mac-pro
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Agreed. Unfortunately, that is right on. I still think it is to their benefit to have trucks (as Jobs put it) in their eco system. Even if sales don’t justify them individually, they add value to the overall system. Of course, that system itself may be dissolving now too. iOS 5 devices no longer need personal computers, only access to centralized servers. It looks like the Larry Ellison/Oracle view of thin client computing has gained enormous ground in the Apple environment. Frankly, I’ve always been in Gates’ camp when it comes to thin client. In my book, a true personal computer trumps a terminal–no matter how snazzy–every time.