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Smaller Mac Pro
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You are correct. I missed that part.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Eric Santiago] “They see the iMac Pro as the same as the iMacs purchased for the Social Media/Web dept. here.”
i hate this way of thinking and its why alot of editors are stuck on old equipment.
The last place i was at the post supe was putting together a bid for all new mac pros. we do shortform trailers and promos. at the very most we could easily do our jobs on regular old imacs and I bet his bid woulda been approved lickety split and we would have had all new computers that work. Instead we are on 2010 cheesgraters that cant be updated and the company wont spring for nMP’s so the IT guy says were stuck. I ask him why he didnt do Imacs and he said because you guys need PRO computers.
i told him to get out of my bay.
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At my day job, I get to do the leg-work and the long-ass docs on gear justification.
IT only gets to say a few things since I’m the one that does all admin/server integration.
We got lucky with the dozen nMPs back in 2013.
Not a single one died on us and no major issues other than upgrading all the D500s RAM to 64GB.
Those are the ones I was referring to on convincing the tall foreheads on upgrading to the 2019 MPs.
As I said, I got them going for replacing the D700s since they were used for heavy iron.
I would have honestly liked a few iMac Pros for other reasons.Who knows maybe Apple will cave and bring out a middle Mac.
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There’s always this Mac Mini Kickstarter project ☺
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Bill Davis] “Yeah, it’s every bit as stupid as 20-someting year old me telling the Broadcast Pros of my day that instead of waiting around until I could afford to pay $250 a quarter hour to get access to a 4 channel ADO unit in a bespoke production house to make useful videos, I could start producing stuff on DV with my Mac and make enough money to comfortably support myself and my family.
What was I thinking?
; )”
not a valid comparison – because in your case things got cheaper and eaier for you. In this case its a bunch of 20 something year olds with generally no idea what a real post production workflow pipeline is telling me I need this computer that is more expensive than anything else on the market.
All I need to do my job is a base level imac. Anything else is overkill IMO.
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Yeah, but what seasoned pro has EVER listened to a 20 something telling them what they need with other than cautious curiosity?
That’s not how the world works. Folks with long, hard earned experience always listen with a certain bit of tolerance to younger voices. It’s the natural way of things. The gamers arguing compute efficiency through the lens of THEIR needs, may not be relevant to someone trying to suss out something like video workflows for a multicam weekly live broadcast show.
Nothing more natural than this tension. It’s reflected here over and over. Totally normal.
It’s why I keep writing from my odd little corporate producer prospective facing general deadlines that are non broadcast, but which (this week) might be WAY more sensitive to information security issues than fps ones, something those gamers won’t give a whit about.
The more voices the merrier. But that means you need to figure out which ones are the ones YOU need to pay attention to.
And so it goes.
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