Rick Lang
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CalDigit is available online around the world via PayPal or Amazon depending upon your region:
https://www.caldigit.com/Purchase.asp
You don’t get the benefit of RAID 5 and Thunderbolt 2 as you would from the Promise Pegasus2, but I thought the prices looked good. In the Americas, a 12 TB T3 costs $1,199 using three 4 TB HDDs. A 2.88TB T3 costs $2,799 using three 960 GB SSDs. A Pegasus2 6-bay, 12 or 18 TB costs $2,299 or $2,999 from Apple and that’s 9.7 or 14.7 TB in RAID 5.
If you really want to be super safe you can configure the RAID 1 on the three drives so that drive two and three are copies of drive one. Someone could find that handy for making copies for offsite or client storage.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Looks like the processor could be replaced as it is socketed:
There is a better quality photo here:
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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The CalDigit T3 looks quite interesting. Only the 10Gb/s Thunderbolt but the hybrid combinations could be interesting. For example you could RAID 0 a pair of 960 GB SSDs in two bays and the third bay could be a 2 TB backup hard disk that you remove for archival storage.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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If you haven’t listened to it, you might be interested in the latest MacWorld Podcast on the Mac Pro. Toward the end of the podcast they talk to (I think it was) the founder of OWC. He has lots of interesting things to say. He maintains the RAM, PCIe flash memory , and the GPUs are upgradeable. OWC has the RAM and will likely provide the PCIe flash memory, but he is doubtful anyone other than Apple will be able to provide upgrade GPU daughter cards due to the secret sauce Apple uses to communicate to the cards. These are not standard GPUs as you know. He was very complimentary towards Apple and what they have achieved in the new Mac Pro.
MacNN also has an interesting article about a DIY PC website that attempted to match the low-end and high-end Mac Pros in terms of specs and price for a do-it-yourself Hackintosh or a DIY PC. They admitted it can’t be done currently and took their hats off to Apple for what they have done and the value they have created with the lower than expected Mac Pro prices. It seems to signify the end of the conventional “Apple tax” that had been an accepted criticism, but not now.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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May be disappointing in the number of functional feature changes, but the other thing that we can’t judge yet is the performance changes that were touted prior to release. Perhaps those changes are real but yet to be realized as they were done specifically to take advantage of the new Mac Pro hardware.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Keith, normally it is only the base configurations that are in the retail stores. They may be able to change memory but that would be the limit of the upgrading you could do in the retail store.
[Keith Koby] “Apple online store says “Available to ship: February” for everything. I’ve heard product is in stores, but we don’t know which configs are available. “
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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We misinterpreted the upgrade at $2,000. That is the cost of 8-core moving up from the 4-core base configuration! So just an incremental $1,500 over the 6-core base.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Bill Davis:
“You guys settle down or I swear I’m gonna launch a campaign for the return of RS-232 ports gosh durnit!”The giddiness level here must be embarrassing your children who are probably either busy reading the Financial Times or plotting a flight to Mars on their smartphones. Let’s hope you boys are just as happy when you start playing with your new toys!
(Secretly love the enthusiasm)
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Marcus Moore:
“I got a callback from my Apple business rep today and I was able to get some additional pricing infoNote- all this in canadian dollars, which is pretty close to US.
(not including 5% business discount)
8-core, 512 SSD, 32GB RAM, D700s = $6,899
8-core, 512 SSD, 64GB RAM, D700s = $7,699
12-core, 512 SSD, 64GB RAM, D700 = $9,199
12-core, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, D700 = $9,699I also asked about some add-on prices from the 6-core, D500s, $3,999 base config
8-core processor + $2,000
12-core processor + $3,500
D700s + $600”I hope I don’t have buyers remorse but that $2,000 for the 8-core bump is looking like $500 more than I thought and it may not be the best value for me. Unless it’s essential for 4K in DaVinci Resolve.
I have another idea though about the PCIe flash memory. If I can manage with the 6-core config and save $2,000, I may go for the 1 terabyte option with the thought that I could use a good portion of that for video and graphics workspace since it is solid state and has a read/write speed of 1.2 and 1 GB/s. With spinning hard disks, you would always want to separate your system disk from scratch space for example because you would be thrashing the arm of the disk drive back and forth. With solid state storage, that thinking may not apply. If not, all video and graphics would be on a Promise RAID and that will be spinning hard disks with a potentially thrashing read/write armature. Or put scratch or other video on another external drive on a separate TB controller I guess.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Gary Huff:
“No one is awake then…except for the little elves who sneak into the offices and do the real innovative work.”And my dogs! They often get me up after midnight so I may take a peak and see if the Apple Store has been updated. More likely will be updated between 5:30 am and 8:30 am in time for the retail store openings in the US.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB