David Lazaro saz
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[David Mathis] Is an additional card required to set up a RAID for internal drives?
No. The macOS Sierra version of Disk Utility includes RAID Assistant as an option in the file menu.
If you are going to configure a RAID 0, I will recommend using an UPS though.
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The ATI Radeon 5870 supports OpenGL 4.1 on Yosemite. It should be valid for Lightroom 6 or CC.
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[Michael Sanders] “0.8 is the last version before 1.1 which will be previewed at NAB but will be a paid for upgrade.”
¿Did you read that somewhere or are you speculating? Just curious because I can’t find that at Apple’s site.
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The problem I see with the Dell XPS that you have bought is that its graphics card are not supported by the Mercury Playback Engine.
From what Adobe has published regarding CS5.5 and CS6 supported laptop graphics cards, the only laptops that cut it from the Dell lineup are the Precision M6600 (17″) with either an NVIDIA Quadro 4000M or an NVDIA Quadro 5010M or the Precision M4600 (16″) with an NVIDIA Quadro 2000M.
Premiere Pro only seems to support “consumer” laptop graphics cards on current generation MacBook Pros.
List of graphics cards supported by the Mercury Playback Engine.
If you want to go the Apple way, I wouldn’t wait to the next-gen models because the current generation models are currently certified for Premiere Pro CS6, Avid Media Composer 6, DaVinci Resolve 8 and Final Cut Pro X. That’s great from my point of view. I think Smoke 2012 was also shown running on those at this year’s NAB.
When the next-gen models are released they will be need to be certified by each of the vendors. So you will be first waiting for the unknown release date, and second to updates from each NLE vendor.
I’d also go with the current generation MacBook Pro because they have Thunderbolt. The USB 3 ports of the current generation Dell Precision laptops seem to be having problems with some peripherals like the BlackMagic UltraStudio Pro according to some forum threads here on the Cow.
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[tony west] “They are super Mac heads so they have used Imovie.”
If they only run on Macs, then they can’t use the latest version of AVID NewsCutter. According to the software requirements, it needs Windows 7 and an NVIDIA Quadro FX card.
That alone gives an edge to Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro in their environment.
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[Dennis Radeke] “I wish I could say. It’s been really easy to deal with HP. Dell is a terrific partner too, but I’ve not been able to test their boxes.”
Interesting. My experience as a customer is exactly the opposite. It has always been easier for me buying from Dell. I have only bought mobile workstations from Dell so far and I was thinking about maybe trying luck with a desktop this time. Both the Z800 and the T7500 seem to be similar although the Z800 has much higher production values and design than the T7500.
I suppose that as soon as the Sandy Bridge Xeons arrive in Q1 2012, both HP and Dell will release new models. Dell was rumored to change their workstation design this time. Let’s hope that Apple also releases something, anything, for the workstation market.
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And what do you think about a Dell Precision T7500?
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Which means?