[Kshitij Mehra]

Hi Richard,

I’m currently on OSX.. I use a macbook pro retina 13 with 16GB RAM and Intel iris graphics card…

[Kshitij Mehra]

Hi Joe, Thanks for your reply..

I would’ve liked to consider a Hackintosh, just that my general relationship is with advertising agencies and their timelines are extremely crazy… So I was looking to get a more stable system that I wouldn’t have to keep fiddling with. Though I understand that you haven’t experienced issues, just that at best I can assemble a PC by looking at tutorials online.. If the hackintosh does conk off, it could pose a lot a problem for me..

But thanks anyway for your response, really appreciate it 🙂

[Kshitij Mehra]

Thanks Hanna…

[Kshitij Mehra]

Hi Walter! Thanks a lot for your reply.. I was only wishing while writing this post that you would reply as I’ve read a lot of posts from you and you’ve given amazing advice, same goes with my case…

– I live in India. Getting hold of top end workstations from HP and Dell is very difficult. Most of the top end models aren’t available in India, and some only by special orders which turn out to be quite expensive. The Mac Pros are also almost 1.5 times the cost of what they’re available for in the US. I’m not in a rush to get a system and would only finalise by october or so since my cousins will be travelling to India in december. Mac pro is a workstation that would be easy for them to carry. Hence, a workstation by HP or Dell is out of my consideration due to transportation issues.

– As you mentioned, that Core i7 5960x would be a good choice along with a strong graphic card. If I do not go in for a Mac Pro, then I will be ordering the processor and a graphic card from the US as the same specs are expensive in India.

– I did read that current Mac pro can be upgraded to 128GB of RAM and third party RAMs are available from Crucial and OWC. Hence, I was thinking of ordering a 12GB/1TB/D700/6-core model and ordering 128GB separately.

– I’m ok with shifting to a PC but it’s just that if I get a Core i7 5960x, I firstly will have to assemble my own and i7 also doesn’t support ECC like Xeon processors. Does that really matter or it can be ignored?

– I was also waiting for Apple to announce the upgraded version of the Mac pro since it hasn’t been upgraded in the last 3 years. Incase, Apple does upgrade them, the costs for Late 2013 would definitely come down, would you still recommend getting the late 2013 model considering I’m trying to keep costs to a minimum as much as possible.

– I do films for social media, motion graphics animations and have recently started doing TVC work such as animations..

I know my concerns are all over the place, but all in all, what would your final recommendation boil down to considering all of the above?

Thanks a lot..