Bernard Newnham
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“Yes, but it’s not yet close to ubiquitous especially on built systems.”
I suppose that’s because they go where the money is. In wandering around the geeky world, I find it’s only amongst Mac-y people that it gets much of a mention. As I now don’t use my Mac much any more since FCP7 sailed into the sunset, I’ve not quite worked out why Thunderbolt is so important – and maybe the mainstream motherboard manufacturers haven’t either.
Bernie
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“…..is a world with Thunderbolt….”
There seem to be a few motherboards that can provide you with that –
https://tinyurl.com/btdnnbf . Add some other bits – the latest GForce, a decent monitor or two, a few Gb of RAM, an SSD, and you’ll see off anything.B
Bernie
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Oh for goodness sakes!
Upgrade to CS6, because you know the system and it works perfectly well. Buy a pc version and a pc. Put the two together and there’ll be be no more overpriced pretty gear, no more waiting, surmising, suggesting, hoping, wanting, angst-ing…….
And when you want to upgrade your box or boxes you just open the old one and put in the upgrade bits you need – a graphics card, an SSD, a power supply, memory, whatever, and carry on editing.
I realise – again – that this is heresy here but sometimes I just have to let go……
B
Bernie
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For so many years I’ve chanted “never buy a Dell” to people who complain about their problems with them. There are lots of good makes – I lean towards Asus myself.
I can add to that – never use a laptop as a Hackintosh. It almost certainly won’t work. You need to go to https://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/CustoMac Buy your choice of stuff on the list and install software as directed. It will work – I’ve done two, one of which is right here, though it gets very little use these days. Works perfectly doing all the Mac stuff required.
Still don’t understand “debug Windows”. Should I be debugging this machine and all the other Windows computers I look after? They do seem to be working perfectly well without me fiddling with them, just like all the other millions in the world.
Bernie
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[Chris Kenny] ” Windows is pretty damn annoying (as is working out the issues surrounding a Hackintosh),”
I’d be interested in an expansion of both parts of that sentence.
In what way was Windows annoying?
What were the issues in setting up a Hackintosh?
Bernie
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…or maybe there’ll be no Macpro at all. Just give up speculating and waiting – build or get built as many Hackintoshes with all the bits you want, for a lot less money.
At this point people say “But what about support? What am I going to do without without nice Apple expensively holding my hand?”
Answer: Go to your nearest friendly PC support company and tell them you have a sick PC which happens to be running OSX.
That’s it.
Bernie
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“If You are in the CAD business or do 3D VFX,
the the Quadro card is justified also in a 2009 MacPro.”I would imagine that if you are in the CAD business and can think of buying a Quadro, you long ago ditched any machine of any sort from 2009. A Core i7 3930K, with an SSD as boot drive plus a GTX 680 (or a Quadro if you must) will easily beat anything that old, and actually not be hughly expensive – see the link earlier.
Bernie
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Another reason not to buy a Quadro for a MacPro is that it’s a disproportionate buy. A bit like buying top class new tyres for a rusty broken down old Vauxhall. There is no graphics card of any kind which will make a computer running a Bloomfield processor from 2009 run as fast as a 2012 chip.
No matter how much Mac fans may yearn for an update, there isn’t one so far, and may never be. $2000 would be far better spent on a very (very) upmarket PC which could be configured as a Hackintosh if that’s what you want.
Bernie
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The K5000 Quadro apparently costs $2,249. Just the faintest bit scary, and you would only want to buy one if you really knew it was going to do you a lot of good. NVidia say –
“The Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro leverages Quadro GPUs and the NVIDIA® CUDA® parallel-computing architecture to deliver up to 8x¹ faster performance for key features like Three-Way Color Corrector, Warp Stabilizer, and Uninterrupted Playback.”
What it doesn’t say is whether a GeForce card will do the same. Call me cynical, but I don’t believe that they’re creating two different architectures in parallel. A GTX 680 costs around £400 ($640) in the UK, and its the top of the range.
Bernie