Bernard Newnham
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I don’t know which card he put in, but from the Apple website a Radeon Pro Vega II MPX Module costs a mere £2,520 – $3,298.
I don’t know how it would actually compare, but the most expensive standard fitting Nvidia card I could find is an ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ROG STRIX OC 11GB – £ 1,299, $1,700
Bernie
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That Puget Systems workstation has a Gigabyte X299 Designare motherboard. Scan.co.uk says that’s it’s already end-of-life, they don’t sell it any more. That’s the PC world – change is rapid, blink and it’s gone. Most components are out of date in a few months.
Never mind – just rip out the old motherboard, processor, graphics card etc, and chuck in new. Easy and cheap – and who cares about wires in a box that’s mostly shut? You need the wires to have the flexibility to do the upgrades. Removing all the cables seems a pointless exercise, unless of course you are trying to lock your customers in to a rigid system. Would Apple do a thing like that?
I don’t know whether or not DVP on Windows 10 is more buggy than on OSX, but it certainly does crash from time to time. I’m sticking with it, rather than using PPro as I’ve done for years, because I can say to my students “It’s free!”, and that counts for a lot. And it’s a very good system, just not quite finished yet.
Bernie
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Or just download the free update
Bernie
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You’d have a lot more choices and probably save lots of money if you switch to Windows and Nvidia. Resolve likes Cuda, and you have the ongoing advantage of incremental updates.
Bernie
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I too dropped Apple years ago. I don’t like being ripped off, and I do like Nvidia
Bernie
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I’m only a little person, but you might like to look at NAS solutions – network attached storage. They come in many sizes, and larger ones will have enough disc slots for your needs, and much more.
I only have experience of Synology, one of the market leaders. It comes with comprehensive software to set up ownership and access rights, from within the network or outside, even on the tiny DS218 here on my desk. There are lots of other makes, and if you’re familiar with Linux, you can create your own.
Bernie
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The only downside at the moment seems to be that it’s rather picky on codecs. I have PPro CS6 and Edius also on this machine, and though they are old now, it’s sometime easier to get a quick edit job done with one of those, each of which will play pretty much everything
Bernie
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Films shown in a cinema, and tv in your living room, are surely two different things. Cinema screens got bigger in the 1950s to make the visit more of an event, and take you away from this new fangled tv thing – that in the big market of the US, was free.
If you make the screen bigger, you need a higher resolution origination, hence 70mm etc. You go along wanting to be impressed for your money, so big screen and big sound are important. At home, most people TVs are part of the environment – you talk, cook, clean, whatever – and mostly you don’t concentrate nearly as hard as when you went out and spent a fortune.
Would Lawrence of Arabia have worked as well on Super 16?
Hmmmm……..
At some point – actually very early on for most – the story is more important than any technical thing. A long time ago I was loaned a copy of a Harry Potter film that hadn’t yet been released. It was on rough third hand VHS – a very ripped off rip off. Did I watch with my young son? Of course. Did we enjoy it (mostly him)? Yes we did. 4k, 8k, any k you like, is so down the scale compared to “Is it a good story?” .
I have a projector here – part of my teaching gear – that can put an enormous picture on my wall. Combine it with some decent sound, and it would be a match for most current multiscreen cinemas. Do I do that? No, can’t be bothered. I watch the most tv here in front of a standard HD 21″ monitor about 2ft away, with good 5.1 sound if available. I could afford any of those huge screen TVs from Currys or John Lewis but it’s all down to viewing angle – if I had a huge screen I couldn’t sit here, I’d have to be across the room so as not to keep having to turn my head all the time.
In the end, story is all, even if the cinematography and editing is superlative, if the story is crap – click.
Bernie
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Of course it is, but in the Mac world you do tend to be a bit restricted when it comes to attaching drives, and that’s why Thunderbolt is used a lot, but in the PC world is just a minor connector on the latest motherboards – that I didn’t know I had till yesterday.
I’m just a teacher these days, my times of being surrounded by machinery and getting stuff on BBC1 in five minutes time are in the past, but my ordinary PC has room for six SATA 3 drives and 2 M2 drives. I could use the Thunderbolt port to attach more, or connect up monitors, but I don’t need to, so it will probably never be used.
Bernie
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What are they?
Sorry – please excuse my not-quite-real ignorance, my times with Macs and Hackintoshes were a while back now.
In the world in which I’m now teaching I don’t need superfast technology, but nevertheless I have plenty of SATA 3 drive space in my current generic PC case, and 2 x M2 availability on my Gigabyte motherboard. A 2TB NVME drive costs under £200, but I haven’t actually bought one yet – I expect I will soon, just to try it out.
………oh, and also it has an internal Thunderbolt connector, because I just checked. I assume that it connects to this – https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/GC-Thunderbolt-2-rev-10#ov
So I suppose I could go really fast if I have to – but of course, not being on a Mac, I don’t need much in the way of external high speed connections .
Bernie