[Gary Huff]

[Shawn Miller] “Yes, but it’s also (if I’m not mistaken) a jab at some of Apple’s past marketing claims. That Macs were faster than PCs… twice as fast in fact. I think there are people who still believe this, no matter what evidence you present to the contrary.”

Or that Macs don’t “bog down” after extended use like Windows machines do. Also another myth, and my experience having to wipe slow Macs to revitalize them is proof enough for me.

[Gary Huff]

[Herb Sevush] “The MacPro PCIe flash storage is faster than the PC SSD I quoted, although I believe you can get the equivalent on the PC side from OWC for another $400.”

Yeah, I think people don’t realize you can actually get this, and it does require a premium, but you CAN build a Hackintosh/Windows box with PCIe internal storage. Just have to know where to get it.

[Herb Sevush] “The MacPro offers 6 Thunderbolt ports and zero PCIe ports, the PC is almost exactly the opposite.”

You can get an ASUS board that has dual Thunderbolt 2 ports but I would wonder how much you’d be giving up speed-wise, especially with a Quad-core Xeon from the base model. I would imagine the difference is very little.

Of course, once you get up to 6 cores and above, you don’t get this option, but I would imagine there will be more boards coming this next year.

[Gary Huff]

[Steve Connor] “I believe so”

I mean, I hope it is, but you just never know!

[Gary Huff]

[Frank Gothmann] “Because it lacks the magic sauce from Cupertino. Remember, the one that made Photoshop run so much faster on PPC compared to the suckers from Intel. Or the amazing iDVD MPEG2 encodes in realtime while the loosers running other, much more expensive encoders still had to cope with old-fashined stuff like 2-pass encoding and quantization settings.”

Is this sarcasm?

[Gary Huff]

[Ann Bens] “What if you import a CS6 project into CC instead of opening with CC.”

Same scenario.

[Gary Huff]

[Al Bergstein] “You don’t mention if you were on a Mac or not. Did you happen to upgrade the OS or components like Quicktime lately?”

Yes, I am on a Mac. It is running Mavericks with all the latest updates (it’s a MBPr 2013).

[Gary Huff]

[Craig Seeman] “Given the comparison the 2008 MacPro might be a good deal even if it only holds one over for a year or two if an OS/FCPX update obsoletes it.”

I mean, aren’t the GeekBench scores not that super-impressive for the entry-level 4-core Mac Pro over a ’08-’10 Mac Pro?

[Gary Huff]

[joe mordecai] “why’s everyone suggesting a 2008 Mac Pro? if you don’t want to splurge on a new one, then look for a damn 2010/2012 model. you’re gonna need to spend some cash if you want X to run like a champ”

If he’s primarily working with XDCam-EX footage from the EX1, and not using a lot of layers or heavy FX, then the 2008 Mac Pro would be fine for him. Not everyone needs the latest and greatest.

[Gary Huff]

[KrickeT Ro] “My first question is: is it worth the $2,999 upgrade? Does anyone know even a guestimate of how long it will take to export a 40 minute sermon for Vimeo? Right now with the iMac it takes about 5 hours just for Vimeo compression.”

It’s possible that the D300s would shorten this considerably, but it’s also possible that the maxed out 2013 iMac with the 780M 4GB GPU would be close enough that it makes it a better deal.

Really interested to see some real-world (i.e. FCPX rendering times as opposed to GeekBench scores) examples of the difference between the base Mac Pro and a maxed out iMac.

[Gary Huff]

The problem is that so many people bought into the “conventional wisdom” that only Windows requires this and OSX is bulletproof and never slows down.

Which is not at all the case.