Helmut Kobler
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I have 32gb in a 2.93ghz 8 core Ma Pro and 2tb of free space on an 8 drive 12tb raid and I still find that X slows down. It sucks especially with still pics on the timeline.
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First of all, my gut tells me that we’ll get a new Mac Pro announcement between tomorrow (Wednesday) and Wed, March 28. That’s my guess. If things go much beyond that, I think the machine is dead. But I tend to doubt Apple will kill it now…1-2 years from now, yes, but not now.
I’m expecting the following:
1) Two Thunderbolt ports
2) Same case and same number of expansion ports, because Apple appears to want to do as little new work as possible with its Pro products.
3) Upgraded ATI GPUs, maybe an nVidea as well.
4) I would love to see USB3 ports but Apple is just stubborn and arrogant enough to leave those out, even though they would be relatively easy to implement and would greatly benefit the customer. We’ll see.——————-
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If they cancel the Mac Pro, I will probably linger on with my 2009 model for a while, and then hope I have the guts to give an HP Z820 a try.
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Here’s a run-down of each of the new chips:
https://techreport.com/discussions.x/22583
I wonder which will end up in the Mac Pro. If Apple wants to retain a chip that uses only around 95W of power (as the 2010 Mac Pro does), then it’s probably going to be the 2660 (8 cores per chip), which runs at 2.2GHz with a turbo boost up to 3.0GHz. That low clock speed is a bit disappointing to me, but who knows what benchmarks will reveal.
My 2009 Mac Pro uses chips that run at about 130W. If Apple went back up to that level, then maybe the 2670 or 2680 would work, and take us to 2.6Ghz or 2.7Ghz (before turbo). Those chips are getting expensive, though, given the cost of previous Mac Pro CPUs.
We’ll see!
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You should check out my review of the HPX3100 here on the Cow. Just do a search. It covers some of the more interesting features of the 3100 that a lot of people aren’t aware of, or don’t consider. Maybe those features aren’t useful to you, but personally I appreciate them!
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I don’t think the chips destined for an iMac are so delayed. My bet is April – June.
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/20/most-of-intels-ivy-bridge-cpus-not-actually-delayed-until-june/
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If you can wait a few more months, I would do it.
By June, Intel will be shipping its Ivy Bridge platform, which will go into new iMacs and portables. It’s almost certain that USB 3 ports will be a part of that, and I think it would be a shame to spend the next several years without built-in USB 3 support. It’s not something you can easily add via Thunderbolt, and expect good performance. Better to have it built into the motherboard. And of course, Ivy Bridge will have some performance gains over the current Sandy Bridge Macs.
As for the Mac Pro, you only have to wait another month or two to find out if Apple will release a new one. That’s when Intel ships new Xeon processors which Mac Pros have always used…they’re due by April. My guess is that a new Mac Pro will ship right at the same time. And if not, you can always get an iMac.
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Hey, did everyone know that we landed a man on the moon? How’d I miss that?
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For the record, Jeremy, I have an ATI Radeon 4870 with 512MB in my Mac Pro. It shipped with my Mac in early 2009.
A few months ago, when I was trying to figure out how to speed FCP X up (10.0.2), I ordered 32GB of ram for my machine (up from 12GB) and the best ATI card available, which is still the Radeon 5870 with 1GB of ram.
I installed the card, and for the life of me, couldn’t see any performance improvement in general FCP X operation over my nearly 3 year old card. I didn’t test exporting because it wasn’t that important to me, but I looked for any improvements in scrolling speed, in timeline rendering, in zoom in and out on the timeline, etc. Nothing improved. I ended up keeping the 32GB of ram because it was cheap and gave me more headroom for running multiple apps, but I returned the 5870.
So if you order a better ATI card, make sure you can return it in you have to!
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Whoops. I just noticed it has a full-size PCIe slot, and 3 mini PCIe slots. Not bad! I wonder if the thing will sound like a vacuum cleaner when its fans are running.
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