Christian Schumacher
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “apple were never going to do this unless they were making a form of statement – both on their behalf and to wider world. You might want expansion, but I would say that empty air was the first thing wiped off the board.”
I’m planning on buying a card board for tunneling the cold air onto it as I think all of that empty air was somewhat needed and still will be missed.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “I find I half love apple for the way they went about it. Also lets face it – broadly speaking, some of the attributes read insane.”
I love the idea of the overall concept. Love their style. Have personal belief that it will be a nice rig to work on, undoubtedly. I just don’t agree on the gap they have created by doing so. They could have updated the Mac Pro last year with at least some new components. What happened then was truly a shame.
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[Marcus Moore] “To what end?”
FCPX Example; I work on a certain rig and it has a 10.0.6 boot drive and another on 10.0.9 with a certain combination of plugins/apps for each of them. And then there’s the cache disks, which are ideally internal for certain applications as you can set them up for the different boot drives. All of this without touching the storage, mind you. There are a lot of users that prefer to manage some drives internally, not just editors, but programmers, designers, researchers. It’s just common sense. I get that you can do that externally even with USB if you want, and with no glitch at all (to boot the OS or point to cache disks) but I’m a tad skeptical.
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[Marcus Moore] “I don’t know- I think you may be underestimating how thick the “middle” of the pro market is compared to the very very high end people who potentially may find this machine doesn’t meet their needs.”
Aha! Now you’re getting serious! But no, I’m not. The agency I mentioned earlier which is going to buy one is a fairly small one. I just don’t see that happening in significant scales though. Maybe I’m wrong, and was before because I thought that they would kill the Mac Pro and they didn’t. But my opinion is that if Apple manages to capture a sizable market right at the beginning from its hardcore fanboys they can raise the bar and develop it further with time. (As shown in the short despite its silly way of doing so) Sure, Pro Apps and professionals using it right out of the gate is going to have impact on this as well. But FCPX and Maya are not exactly ubiquity yet.
[Marcus Moore] “There are a few shortcomings to the lack of super-fast PCIe ports, but I see those as relatively near-term issues. If TB gets to it’s 100Gb/s threshold- there are no limits to external expandability. This obviously doesn’t solve the problem for those that have a use-case TODAY…”
There’s that, yes big, big issue. But I also struggle to believe that this particular choice for the size is going to be the best at the end. Why does it have to be so tinny? They could have come up with something a little bigger than that. You know? Adding at least some SSD slots for god’s sake.
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[Craig Shields] “I get it. It’s kinda funny initially but who would “get on with their life” after getting that? LOL Anyways, I can certainly laugh at Apple or anyone else but to me it’s kind of silly. That guy is no pro user. That’s for sure.”
OK, right the guy is not a pro user, I bet he doesn’t need that. The story is on people that can be futile, hence the silliness and all. I don’t think these people showing off MacPros are represented here on the forum, I’m sorry if you took that way. But they do exist out there, and ironically, they may be exactly what is needed for the Mac Pro to take off at this point.
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I’ll be -partially- working on one of them by 2014. Again, I hope that Apple isn’t the one kidding.
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As a matter of fact I just wish that Apple take this seriously.
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[Marcus Moore] “Well believability has just gone out the window right there…
Who that’s getting one of these things isn’t going to have it hooked up the same day!?”
The day the guy gets it, the first thing he does is to show it off on facebook, take funny pics, etc…that’s what it is very believable of this short, the main character, let alone the prototype itself. Why can’t Apple enthusiasts make fun of themselves sometimes? Pastiches are only acceptable when it’s Apple’s time?
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[Craig Shields] “It’s a shame they keep going in his office and unplugging all the cables out of that thing just to use it as a rolling pin and such. lol”
You didn’t pay attention, I’ll break it down for you; guy gets his new mac pro on Saturday, gets on with his life while people misuse it, and when finally at work on Monday, even his mate doesn’t know what it is.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Do you, personally, saturate an 8x PCIe bandwidth? Is it even possible?”
Apple seems to think so. TB2 is under way now. And Intel and all have plans to go optic and so on, why is that? Isn’t 1,0GB enough?
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[Walter Soyka] ” I should add that yes, 1 GB/s is a lot of bandwidth.”
Nobody can say that Thunderbolt is not crazy fast bandwidth, it is. But no one should plain ignore that even faster performance is currently available on 4-5 year-old tech via PCIe. And all that isn’t crazy expensive, elitist or unthinkable for current workflows – and these don’t have to be comprised of 4K either. Yes Thunderbolt is more user friendly, with laptop proxy editing collaboration and all, but there was a compromise that was made for that to happen. Let’s see what they’re really giving us back later on. Stay tuned.