[Paul Principe]

Actually this begs a bigger question with regard to Apple.

It appears they’ve abandoned professionals in favor of consumer grade disposable devices and software. It’s for that reason, along with the ridiculous price, that I am resisting buying any more Apple hardware.

Since Resolve will soon have a windows based version, there is nothing I will be currently using that will require Apple hardware any more. I abandoned FCS for Avid Media Composer when FCPX was released and I’m not looking back. I learned to edit with Avid at the beginning of my career so it wasn’t a painful transition to go back.

I hate Microsoft products with a passion, but it almost certainly would be more economically viable when the time to upgrade comes to go back to windows based hardware. I’m positive I could build a machine that has more horsepower than a boned-out Mac Pro for way less than $5k.

This is a big decision (jumping OS) that hopefully I can put off for another 12 to 18 months. I want to wait and see if and what Apple is going to do to regain the confidence of the professional market.

[Paul Principe]

Hey Matt,

Just came across this post and wanted to thank you for the lead. I have the exact same Mac Pro configuration as you do with less ram. I’ve contacted Dave for more information on the cards via his ebay store.

I feel like a very black cloud has been lifted off of me. I really was very discouraged when I found out my Mac was bordering bone-yard-itis because it was EFI32. It will be nice to get some more mileage out of it before I have to pony up 3k+ for a newer model.