Marcus Moore
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Total protonic reversal..!
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Benchmarks on their own, nope. And these scores are still a few steps removed from what we might see out of the actual Mac hardware anyway.
But with OpenGL being widely adopted on most of the major applications now, it will be interesting to see some app specific testing by guys like Barefeats.
With the CPU, RAM, and GPUs all likely being pretty expensive, maxing out the machine on all front will be pretty costly- so analysis like theirs will likely help a lot of people decide on the best configuration for their specific use case.
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That depends on how good you are about file organization. When I bought the final-generation 17″MBP, I ponied up $1,100 for the SSD drive. Very worth it.
That said, you should look at realistically what you need to keep on your system drive and buy accordingly.
I’ll probably be able to save a bit of money on the new MacPro by NOT investing in a massive internal SSD. I doubt I’d buy anything bigger than a 750GB even if it was offered. As long as you have enough space for the OS, your applications, and the usual advised headroom, you don’t need a ton of space. I keep everything else on external drives- Dropbox, iTunes Library, etc. If it’s a work machine, try to keep the MacHD as clean and uncluttered as possible.
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The way a Fusion drive is set up is to give SSD speeds to your most used files and applications. The spinning disk portion is essentially there as an overflow for those files and applications that need to live on your MacHD, but are accessed so infrequently that they’d just be eating up space unnecessarily on your SSD.
In another year or two as SSD prices come down these will become redundant, but I figure Apple will get 3-4 years out of the technology.
Just like always, never run projects/events/media on this drive if you’re looking for good performance.
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I think poor timing might have been the issue there. If the events are right in my head- even if the dev team wasn’t already working on what would become FCPX, they knew they were going to be recoding from scratch after 64bit carbon support was formally dropped in 2007. This also lead to the lack-luster 2009 release of FCS3 (which would have been 64 bit well before the competition along with Logic).
Realizing they would have been writing a RED workflow for a dead platform, they probably couldn’t justify any serious development.
It’s a theory anyway.
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[Santiago MartÃ] “Early benchmarks of 12 core Xeons don’t show that much of an improve on speed so GPU acceleration is a must.”
I’m not sure if these newer benchmarks were posted here- for anyone’s interest, much better results than the ones from July (and likely still not accurate to the scores for the final machine)
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[Bernard Newnham] “Indeed they are, at least a part of it. Clearly not to the professionals who hang out here. I wonder why? “
This is a facetious statement.
Saying Apple is marketing to CQ public with this ad belies the fact that you see ads for BMWs, high end watches, and cologne before movies.
While I admit that I’m a bit bewildered by taking this ad to theatres (it’s intended consumer base needs no further advertisement- if you’re planning on buying one of these, you definitely know all there is to know about it already) the fact that the ad played in a theatre doesn’t limit who they could be marketing to.
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I dunno, after Tim Cooks mea culpa about iMac delays over the holiday season, I’m hoping they won’t repeat the same mistake.
That said, I’d wager a much higher proportion of MacPros will be custom configs vs iMacs. And the fact that they’re being assembled in the US will affect delivery- though whether that’s positively or negatively remains to be seen.
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It will be interesting to see if a FCPX 10.1 bring with it any “regressionary” changes.
When you’re trying to define a new way to edit like this, you may not be able to see how all roads end. And maybe some of the ideas they’ve proposed don’t work out.
It’s impossible to know if the dev team ever originally planned to put in an Event Viewer (preview window), or if it was a concession to user demand. Personally I hardly use it.
For instance I think there’s a pretty good case to be made for recombining the Project/Event structure into a single file. While the concept has some potential advantages (separating media from “cuts”) for multi-user situations- there may be more advantages to a combined structure where there’s a better free-flow of metadata between projects and events, since metadata is unquestionably FCPX’s strong points.
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Roles as timeline organization please, Apple.