[Gary Huff]

[Jim Wiseman] “I’m just putting up what Forbes was told, You can value it as you wish.”

If you were just providing the info, it would be one thing, but to continually bring up “But, but, the Forbes article says…!” means something else.

People are quoting Pogue and some anonymous forum poster as if they are speaking the gospel truth, and I’m not going to spread b.s. no matter how interesting it might be.

[Gary Huff]

[Walter Soyka] “f you are comfortable building your own PC, you can, and you can save some money by being your own support.”

I’m much better support than any company could ever give me! :-p

Which is why it’s a personal decision and not one that I would lightly recommend to anyone else.

[Gary Huff]

[Herb Sevush] “Doesn’t run FCPX”

That’s a plus. 😉

[Herb Sevush] “can’t encode ProRes”

I think the decision would be easier for a lot of people if that changed, but that’s entirely up to Apple.

[Gary Huff]

How do you know that this is simply not a story whose sole source is the anonymous forum poster from Mac Rumors?

Are you seriously this gullible normally? Or is your head so stuck up Apple’s ass that you grasp at any straw that is pointed in your direction?

[Gary Huff]

[Herb Sevush] ”
And waste what precious little PCIe slots there are on something that should have been built in?”

Well, I don’t prefer it, but if you want USB3 in a Mac Pro, that’s currently your only option.

[Gary Huff]

[Chris Harlan] “Why would running, say, AE or Pr on Windows be a waste of your time over running them on OS X? Would you actually see a difference? Or is this just another of your hit-and-run blarfs?”

It’s pretty apparent he knows not of what he speaks.

[Gary Huff]

[Paul Jay] “And get a SSD bootdrive. With a 3th party.”

The Crucial M4 drives just dropped quite a bit on Amazon, and I picked up a 512GB version. It literally makes my MacBook Pro 17″ (RIP) scream.

[Gary Huff]

I would love to have a powerful desktop Mac for home office use, but for the price of the entry-level Mac Pro, I can upgrade my Windows box internals to a Sandy Bridge Xeon (2011 socket) with TWO 8-core Xeons, 32GB of RAM, and a NVIDIA Tesla card.

That would crush literally anything I could get from Apple at the moment.

[Gary Huff]

[Bobby Mosca] “Ah, I see that now. I didn’t realize the last one was so early in the year. Well, Apple has had steady growth in computer sales since the release of the i”

Be interesting if Apple exits the desktop market entirely in one fell swoop…

[Gary Huff]

[Scott Sheriff] “Many of the features that you want to see in the ‘new’ Mac Pro are not all that important to them.”

I don’t need USB3.0 built-on. As soon as an OSX update comes out that widely supports it, I can easily put in an add-on card. I really don’t care about Thunderbolt either. Newer graphics card support is needed (AMD 7000-series or NVIDIA 500-600 series) and I don’t want to drop a lot of cash on something that’s not quite as fast.

I mean, how does a average-priced Mac Pro compare to the i7 in the latest iterations?