Gary Huff
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[Bill Davis] “That 22 year old may be sitting there unsure of how to cut an interview competently. But she’s got a device in her pocket where if she’s half smart – she can teach herself that in the first month with three times a day personal lessons and examples galore.”
Most of them aren’t even that smart.
[Bill Davis] “So time to re-brand ourselves from “the pro guys who know how to make video” because that’s not a very compelling value proposition when legions are doing a version of the same thing on their phones..”
And it clearly looks it, and I’ve taken jobs where clients didn’t want that “phone video” look.
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[Nikolas Bäurle] ” Perhaps its not correctly formated. I use 3TB Lacie, bought it, connected it, works.”
I have the 1TB LaCie Thunderbolt drive connected via Thunderbolt and am using it at this instant and it works fine.
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[Daniel Frome] “unny…when I first bought my rMBP I was having thunderbolt connectivity issues with my Pegasus TB raid. I took the machine to the apple store and they just gave me a new rMBP. Didn’t even bother to fix.”
Exactly. And if you’ve had it for a while, and it’s all configured, how are you going to return it to the setup that you want/need? The App Store helps a bit in that regard since it’s super-easy to get all of your apps installed, but not everything’s on the app store.
Just make sure you have Time Machine backups I guess.
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[Chris Kenny] “On the other hand, for facilities with multiple Mac Pros, if one of them goes down in a suite during a client session or something, you can just grab another one and swap it in by hooking up some cables — you won’t have to move a bunch of drives or PCIe cards over.”
Yeah, that’s definitely not going to be most of us (and isn’t “facilities are going away!” one of the rallying cries of this subforum?) especially if the Mac Pro is, as I suspect it’s going to be, is around $6k entry level.
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Well, therein lies the rub for nearly all of Apple’s latest PC’s, right? I am adept enough to replace a drive within an hour in case of failure. But now, in a crunch, you’d have to make a Genius Bar appointment and probably end up having to replace an entire unit to get any kind of fast turnaround time.
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The decision matrix for next year is getting interesting.
Reminds me of the supposed Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
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The beefier 12-core will begin at $3,499. The high end configuration will be $4,999.
There is no way it’s going to be that cheap.
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But that’s the point. A fully spec’d out iMac is $3500 and it doesn’t come close to the specs of the new Mac Pro, which will be so current that it utilizes hardware that’s not even available yet on the market.
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Anyone care to price that as an equivalent Hackintosh box?
$2400-ish for the processors, motherboard, twin 5770s, and 32GB ECC RAM.
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I should also point out that a 12-core 3.0Ghz, 32GB, 512GB SSD version of the previous Mac Pro model is $7800.