Truly depressing…

[Santiago Martí]

Today’s PPro updates includes OpenCL acceleration, that’s what Apple was waiting!
😉

Santiago Martí
http://www.robotrojo.com.ar
Red One M-X, Red Epic X waiting for Dragon update, Red Pro Primes, Adobe CC, Assimilate Scratch

[Lance Bachelder]

Ahh… didn’t even see that – let’s hope it fixes my current issues – updating now.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Walter Soyka]

[Lance Bachelder] “Ahh… didn’t even see that – let’s hope it fixes my current issues – updating now.”

What’s new is listed here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new-7-2.html

And bug fixes are listed here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/949132#949141

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Andre Van berlo]

From what I’ve understood from Marcus Moore is that a maxed out Mac Pro will be $9500,-

So 12 cores, 64GB ram, D700’s, and 1TB SSD
8 core, 64GB ram, D700’s, ad 500G SSD would be $7500 (don’t remember the exact number)

I’ve done some estimates based on speculations from Marcus Moore and things I’ve found in the apple store. It’s just guessing but still fun 🙂

Using the base model of $2999(4 core, D300, 16GB, 256GB SSD) you can configure your own model and add the prices below.

Flash Storage upgrade prices
(On the imac you pay $250 extra to go from 256GB to 512GB and $500 more to go to 1 TB)
250GB ssd + $0
500GB ssd + $250
1tb ssd. +$750

RAM upgrade prices
(On the iMac you go from 0 to +200 to +600 so i’m using the same “apple-scaling” here. Also, Marcus had his apple representative tell him to upgrade to 64GB would be $1200)
16GB +$0
32GB +$400
64GB +$1200

GPU upgrade prices
D300 +$0
D500 +$750
D700 +$2000

CPU upgrade prices(there were estimates on some site, can’t remember which)
4 core +$0. ($294 on intel.com)
6 core. +$250. (583 on intel.com)
8 core +$1250 (1723 on intel.com)
12 core. +$2500. (2950 on intel.com)

[Mitch Ives]

[Chris Harlan] “It doesn’t count to have one ordered on 12/31; it must be paid for by 12/31.”

Exactly!

Surely Apple knows this, but I’m guessing there’s been some snag that’s holding it up?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Tom Sefton]

What’s in the box:
Power Cord
Mac Pro
Dust!
Air!
Packing Material!!!
Silica Gel!!!
….

If you look at the 4 core model vs the iMac, you can spec the imac with an i7, 32Gb RAM, 256Gb SSD, a free keyboard and mouse, an 8GB GPU and a bundled monitor and that comes to £2708. The 4 core model is £2499 for 4Gb GPU and 12gb RAM.

Unless the Mac Pro 4 or 6 core absolutely slaughters that iMac in performance, how much are they going to be stepping on their own toes with pricing in the next 2 months after release?

And yes, yes, I know the Mac Pro has more thunderbolt ports and hdmi 1.4….

[Jeremy Garchow]

And dual GPUs….

Can’t forget those.

[Tom Sefton]

Yes sorry – I added up wrong. 1 x 4 is most definitely 4. So the iMac has the same GPU memory as the base spec Mac Pro but on one GPU, not two. This will obviously make a difference in Resolve, but will it make a fundamental difference to the way that AE, CC or FCPX works?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tom Sefton] “This will obviously make a difference in Resolve, but will it make a fundamental difference to the way that AE, CC or FCPX works?”

I should hope so. It’s not only the GPUs but the higher powered Xeons which should be faster than i7s.

If not, we will all buy iMacs. Win win for Apple?

Jeremy

[Tom Sefton]

Yeah true. I won’t be moving from apple hardware for the time being; it’s reliable, well built and the OS is great.

You would indeed imagine that in a race, xeons would beat i7, I just wonder at what point the gap isn’t big enough for a lot of people to not bother and purchase an imac instead. Obviously apple want people to spend as much as possible with them, so the incentive to purchase additional keyboard, mouse and monitors needs to be high – this would be a clear performance difference between the two models.

I eagerly await some sort of comparison test between the mac pro and the imac.