Marcus Moore
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Hey Rainer,
FCPX has come a long way since it’s original release, and many of the things you’re questioning about have been reintegrated. Many of them for well over a year.
Have you played with the program at all? If not, I would say it’s worth downloading and playing with with some free tutorials cued up on YouTube. If you have tried it before and found it lacking, it may be worth waiting until the next big update, which is coming in about a month. Right now FCPX hasn’t had any feature updates in over a year. While the fundamentals of the way the program works likely won’t change, there is likely to be a whole host of performance and feature enhancements in the December release.
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Where did you find pricing? Not doubting, just curious.
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I think we need to get away from the idea that for this to gain any traction that it has to satisfy the most robust requirements.
At this point I’m not even sure what Apple/Intel’s goal behind this is yet.
Based on one article (that’s been pretty bashed up in the comments), I don’t think we can draw any firm conclusions yet.
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As a professional FCPX user, I’d like to publicly back away from Andy Branner- his attitude, and his mindset.
Sorry, Andy. You’re on your own. Please don’t go ruining it for the rest of us.
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It looks to me like the current MacBook Pro and iMac both have a single TB controller chip for both ports.
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It depends how many TB controllers you have in the machine. The MacPro has 6 thunderbolt ports on 3 controllers. So you have 3x 20GB/s in bandwidth to play with, not just one.
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True enough. Though it’s exactly the disparity between what the bump in CPU and GPU from the 3K to 4K model SHOULD cost from the prices I’ve found, vs the $1,000 price difference that has me confused about where actual price will drop.
See you back here in a month, I guess!
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Well, let’s give it the old college try-
$2,999: 4-core, 12GB RAM, 256GB HD, and 2xD300
for another $1,000 you move up RAM, one CPU, and one GPU class-
$3,999: 6-core, 16GB RAM, 256GB HD, and 2xD500
RAM: for the iMac, it costs $600 to install 64GB. I’m sure the 16GB sticks will cost more, so lets’ say maxing out the RAM (thru Apple) would cost you $2,000.
SSD: Adding a 512TB SSD to the iMac costs $500. I think this will be pretty price comparable.
GPU: That architosh article pegs the cost of each D700 at about $3,158. In their calculations, Apple seems to be charging less for the MacPro GPUs than that. Certainly, Apple MUST be getting some kind of deal here. The architosh pegs the D500s at $1,308; yet 2 of them are going into the $3,999 machine for only $1,000 MORE than the D300s in the base model. How much of a discount we’re getting is unclear, but based on the price of the D500s relative to the base model, lets say the upgrade price to the D700 will be $3,500 (the price of one- same as the D500).
CPU: Doing some hunting, I’ve found a prospective price on the CPUs. 6-core is $600, 8-core is $1700, 12-core is $2,614.
Again, if you look at the fact that the price different between the 3K and 4K machine includes both a CPU and GPU upgrade, they’ve got to be getting great volume pricing on these things. So the pricing isn’t going to be strictly additive.
So let’s take the base machine price- $2,999.
$500 SSD HD
$2,000 RAM
$4,000 GPU (to be a bit pessimistic)
$1,500 CPUTOTAL- $11,000. If my figures make any sense. More than I thought, but I might be high in some areas and low in others. Very difficult to say with any certainty.
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I can’t see it being near that much. I’m thinking closer to 8K, but we’ll just have to wait and see.