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Update MacPro or not?
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Or you could pick up a Mac Pro case for under 100 bucks, and do what this guy did (16 pages of pics of the process):
https://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1074089
Joe Bourke
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[Steve Connor] “I know you keep bashing on about how fast and wonderful new PCs are, but this is predominantly an FCPX forum so it’s no big surprise we use Macs.”
His system description would fit a Hackintosh, which might be a reasonable way to go depending on Apple’s next move.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
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[Bernard Newnham] “I’m just endlessly astonished at the loyalty people show for a company that long ago lost interest in them.”
I thought the same thing, but I’m willing to give Apple the benefit of the doubt, seeing as how they are making substantial improvements to FCPX.
If they release OSX 10.9 with a flatter look thanks to Ive (the Calendar skumorphism is really ugly), and it doesn’t break anything substantial over Mountain Lion, it will be more evidence in their favor that they are actually trying to remain a viable solution in the creative space.
And as Herb mentioned, one can always Hackintosh! Though I will admit, the new iMac is pretty sexy.
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[Bernard Newnham] “I’m just endlessly astonished at the loyalty people show for a company that long ago lost interest in them.”
Well, right now I’m still cutting on FCP and I need to have the ability to use FCPX if any clients require that and since Premiere, AE, and Avid all work on Macs too that’s where I have to be. I’m not happy about having to pay more for the hardware but I’ve been using Macs all my life and really prefer the OS to Windows.
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[Steve Connor] “[Bernard Newnham] ” iMacs are really only suited by their limitations to the reception areas of advertising companies and facilities houses. ”
Rubbish
[Bernard Newnham] “You just have to open the door of your locked in little room and look around. ”
I know you keep bashing on about how fast and wonderful new PCs are, but this is predominantly an FCPX forum so it’s no big surprise we use Macs.
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum”
Indeed.
Apple computers that use the x86 architecture are PCs, just either our of date or lacking in the ability to modify or easily expand. Try putting a GeForce 680 or a Haswell CPU in your iMac.
I still have my G4, though mostly gutted now, because it’s such a pretty machine – I can’t bear to chuck it in the skip. When the Hackintosh gets too old – though I don’t use it much these days – it too will be gutted and its case and drives will be recycled into some new machine. Try doing that with your iMac.
Bernie
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[Bernard Newnham] ” Try doing that with your iMac.”
I will do as I have always done with my iMacs since my first BondiBlue one, I will sell it for a reasonable price and move up to a new one, knowing full well that cost of my non-upgradeable computer was covered within 3 months of buying it.
The extra costs involved in buying Macs can be made up on resale value
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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[Bernard Newnham] “Try doing that with your iMac.”
Or don’t. I don’t have time to play computer mechanic. Editing keeps me busy enough.
I’ve been running my business off a mixture of laptops and now an iMac for several years, waiting for a reason to move back to a tower since I moved off my Q5 Quad in 2008.
I keep the hardware for 2 years (usually a good duration to see a real bump in performance), then avail myself of the machine’s astounding resale value and move up. I’d say it probably costs me $1,000 per year [maybe less] to do this. Insanely little to invest relative to what I bring in annually.
I don’t see anything wrong with what you’re doing, but it’s not in everyone’s interest to be a tinkerer. I sure as heck don’t feel like I’m being “taken”. I’m making a but-load of money off the back of this $2,500 2011 iMac.
Regrets. Zero.
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[Dustin Parsons] ” I’m not happy about having to pay more for the hardware but I’ve been using Macs all my life and really prefer the OS to Windows.”
Which Windows would that be?
At the flying club where I’m a member, I look after the computers of which we now have four. Because we run mostly on cast-offs and rebuilds each one has a different operating system – Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Linux Mint (which was OpenSuse till recently).
XP – old now and showing it, but pretty solid and reliable
W7 – Excellent. All a desktop operating system should be
W8 – Complete rubbish – can’t find anything. It’s as if they set out to make things difficult
Linux Mint – Like all Linux, very user friendly as long as you don’t want to do anything. There to stop people playing with a mission critical system.So – which Windows don’t you like? I switch between each of these and OSX, just in the same way one might get out of one make of car and into another. No big deal – where’s the switch for the headlights?
Bernie
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[Bernard Newnham] “So – which Windows don’t you like?”
You know, I really don’t like Windows. It does things like lets me merge two folders together and update only the changed files. Mountain Lion gives me the option to that, but doesn’t work (it throws up a cryptic -1 error when trying), and I just like how ML keeps me on my toes like that. Windows is too simple for that kind of job where you need to update all 120GB of data when you’ve already copied half of it at lunch and are in a huge time crunch. With OSX, I have to copy it all over again, thus making sure my data is DOUBLE secure!
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