[John Davidson]

You realize I’m going to have to make that Primary vs Secondary blog video for this now, don’t you?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Here, I made a little test between SSD and Fusion.

https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/12352/fusion-vs-ssd-fight

PS, the 27″ lets you change your own RAM out. It’s easier than ever to do now.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I got the 675 and the fastest processor, too. It ended up being about 3k but with the USB3 and reduced glare I wish all our systems were the new iMac. 50% chance we end up getting another one in a few months. My system doesn’t connect to the tape room so I grabbed one of those blackmagic mini monitors with HDMI/SDI out. Pretty solid. I also really like the Promise Pegasus. Looks like they have larger capacities now than when I bought (I have 12tb I think).

Considering how much we paid for the 2010 mac pro maxed out 2 years ago (10k) I feel like we got off easy on this one :).

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Just wanted to change the subject for future searchers.

If the post in the middle of this page is correct

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1499206&page=2

The fusion does contain a 7200rpm. The mini and 21 use 5400rpm I think.

Thanks for straightening me out Kevin :).

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Mine is pretty great. It does get a little warm in the back but nothing to write home about. Colors are excellent, etc.

Every release of every product will have a significant number of bad performers. If you have a local apple store they’ll fix it – usually pretty fast. I had an iMac 2011 specced out and the screen started flickering worse and worse – I took it to the apple store and the had it fixed by the next morning about 3 months ago.

Two weeks later, the seagate HD in a 2009 iMac my wife used got a recall and the Apple store swapped that out as well. We had never even gotten Applecare for that one.

Point is, they’ll take care of ya. The reason why I push the fusion is that it’s working great for me and in 3 years when you give it to Grandma or your kid, the internal storage will be relatively large enough for all their music and pictures and movies and i-crap, with no cables or wires needed to complicate their lives.

I should probably just do a quickie blog post with video of apps launching like crazy fast, huh?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Yeah, it’s ssd mixed with a 5400 rpm drive. It’s good though, don’t stress the specs so much as how it works in real world use. It keeps all frequently used apps in the SSD. It’s really good.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I would recommend a USB 3 drive in RAID for media, or even better thunderbolt, before using the fusion drive to edit media. It’s 5400rpm and big files will eat that up.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Alas, you have to get the 8 minimum. Throw the default RAM in a ziploc bag and maybe you can use it one day to help out a friend or salvage an older computer.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

The imac 2013 is faster than the mac pro current generation in many tasks. That tutorial I made was done on a 2011 iMac. Just think about that, I was recording video off the screen at 2500×1900 (or whatever the specific dimensions are), editing with Prores over gigE, and it was pretty much just going with the flow. There were 2 crashes because I think editing, recording, and recording scratch VO all at the same time was pushing it a little.

And I got 32 gigs of RAM from OWC because it was cheaper. Got everything else fully loaded. I use all the apps you’re discussing. It’ll blow the 2008 mac pro away.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

And really, if you’re worried, get Apple Care. We always get that with macs now.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.