[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “You are talking about stock from Apple, not after market upgrades.”

No, I am talking about how large HDDs were when the old cheesegrater MacPro was designed. The capacity simply wasn’t there. You needed to stuff 6 drives in it in order to get enough space.

Today, that issue is less of a problem, unless of course you are dealing exclusively in large format raw codecs.

I believe, if you need it, there will be plenty of storage opportunities inside the machine.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “So yes, if this tower could take 4 x 14TB 7200 RPM drives, that would be great. But it doesn’t look like that’s possible.”

Not sure if you read the rest of my post, but I mention the Promise card that hold 4 HDDs. Promise advertises 32TB Raw, preformatted to raid 5. The asterisk says there’s more capacities coming later. Same with J2i with 2 drives only.

https://www.promise.com/us/Promotion/PegasusStorage

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “In fact, if you used the optical drive bays, you could do up to 6 drives on the older Mac Pros.”

It would take a lot of drives to equal the capacity of one single HDD’ today.

Drives in the older Mac pro were typically less then 1TB.

With the Promise thingy announced, you can get 32 TBs inside the MacPro. Those capacities simply weren’t available in the old cheese grater days. Single hard drives can reach up to 14TBs. 4 of those would be 56TBs in one computer. I think we will be OK.

[Jeremy Garchow]

XtoCC on the AppStore will convert fcpxml to xml

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Gissing] “Resolve performs better with CUDA.”

So you trade one “proprietary” system for another. We all make choices.

“Better” is relative. Metal is new-ish, and seems to be direct competition for CUDA and now with this new machine, developers may be more interested as they will have more opportunity to give customers a real performance difference with faster/multiple/purpose built GPU hardware inside the Mac with direct PCIe access.

The new Mac Pro looks like a monster machine. I am curious to it’s performance in a non maxed out version. We need some power, but not maximum power. Although, when you look at it in the grand scheme of gear, it’s like buying a new higher end camera body. Guess it’s time to raise rates again?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “And by “they” I mean Apple, and by “you” I mean me.”

Herb, it’s really good to hear from you.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Shawn Miller] “However, I do wonder how many people will be willing to pay double to run C4D, Redshift or Octane on a Mac Pro instead of an Nvidia based workstation. ☺”

I am trying to figure this out. Are you suggesting a similar 28 core Windows workstation with 4 top spec NVIDIA GPUs, a similar computer monitor, and all the SSDs and RAM is going to be half the cost? That’s truly crazy if it’s true. “No one” will buy this Mac Pro, if you need all that power. It just doesn’t make sense.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Gissing] “Grant is probably saying what Apple want to hear while they sort RAW format licensing from each other (hopefully).”

Here’s all the quotes. It seems a little more than just flowery language.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/pro-app-developers-react-to-the-new-mac-pro-and-pro-display-xdr/

I guess we will know in the “fall”.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Gissing] “NVIDIA is a deal breaker for me and I’m sure many Resolve users will be torn.
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Blackmagic Design
“DaVinci Resolve is the world’s most advanced color correction and online editing software for high-end film and television work. It was the first professional software to adopt Metal and now, with the new Mac Pro and Afterburner, we’re seeing full-quality 8K performance in real time with color correction and effects, something we could never dream of doing before. DaVinci Resolve running on the new Mac Pro is easily the fastest way to edit, grade and finish movies and TV shows.” — Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design

Are people really going to pay $50,000 for one single computer though?

https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/03/maxed-out-mac-pro-cost-estimate/

[Jeremy Garchow]

The hardware looks amazing.

but

Can anyone not call Catalina, the Catalina Wine Mixer?

It’s the … Catalina Wine Mixer!

This clip contains swear words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0uLXodDVA