Rick Lang
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Sunil, the BMCC takes EF-S lenses as well as EF lenses. The crop factor compared to full frame is about 2.3.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Adam Rainer] “Will the MBPr hog the Nvidia GPU resources compared to the non-retina MBP ?
“Certainly it can take more effort to drive the retina display than the non-retina display but in the following benchmark results, the Macbook Pro with Retina display does not seem to be suffering when compared to the traditionally designed Macbook Pro at comparable CPU/GPU speeds. For the processing of large files, the SSD is going to perform better than HDD-based system. AnandTech has done some benchmarks of various SSDs by the way and is favourably impressed with the choices Apple’s made for their machine:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/6005/apples-new-ssd-its-fast
If the Retina machine’s ports (no Firewire and Ethernet support without using an adapter) suit your purposes and the cost is not prohibitive, I’d certainly go with the Retina display model since overall it does seem to be the better performer. Although the GPU speeds are the same, I’d recommend the 1 GB GDDR5 GPU memory option on either machine. Take a look at these comparisons:
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jeremy:
“”[David Lawrence] “Jeremy, I presume you’re thinking retina for field work? Do you work in clamshell mode very often?”I do not.”
Sorry my eyes just skipped over this. So I see why the firm factor is a concern. I’d certainly recommend you just get yourself an early birthday present and consider a Thunderbolt display so you don’t have to worry about only having the two TB ports on the laptop. It’s so much more comfortable working on a big screen. It use that HDMI with a DVI adapter for your GUI as planned.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jeremy:
“I have been a 17″ since they started making them, so the form factor/loss of res is going to be a bit of a change.”As you probably know you can use the retina display as a 1920×1200 virtual screen (‘more space’) and yet within that the viewer window in FCPX will display full 1920×1080 video pixel-for-pixel. Yes the physical dimensions are smaller than on the 17″ but it’s only an inconvenience as you travel and may not be as cramped as you fear. Try it out in the store if you can.
There’s going to be a big green screen project in there as well as some other straight forward editing/cc. I need as fast as I can get in a portable machine.”
If I remember the recent benchmarks show the fastest MacBook Pro Retina is overall faster than the fastest MacBook Pro 15″. I’ll check to verify that and get back if I’m wrong.
‘She loves you!’
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Ned, how do you like Resolve on the MacBook Pro Retina display? Did you change the MacBook screen preferences to 1920×1080? I suppose things will look better when there’s a ‘retina ready’ version of Resolve. Are you using a large external screen for your desktop work and not the 15″ laptop screen? Any other interesting things to note about your exoerience with Resolve on the new laptop.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Chris:
“I’d sure be curious if you can build something out of it to render and design with.”Rendering is one of the areas which could benefit from the co-processor approach and, as you’re thinking, it’s utility will depend upon its affordability. It’s sounding like Intel is taking off the gloves to counter the rapid rise of NVIDIA and the CUDA engine in their GPUs. Intel may be on a road where they are just starting out and may need to discount the product to get a foothold in this market although pricing new products inexpensively isn’t something Intel is known for.
That’s where Apple might help since Apple will try to get a bargain where they can or ignore the product. And then there’s the Windows based competitors that may also play into the scenario at some point. I think 2013 will be interesting. Perhaps the ‘next generation’ thinking will bear fruit for many disciplines including those related to video post processing. Like Bob Mansfied says when talking about the MacBook Pro Retina (and I paraphrase): when you think incrementally you are limited in what you can do; when you start over to build something new, you can achieve more. Tim Cook’s comments about what’s coming for high-end computers next year smells like ‘next generation’ thinking that takes time to implement right. Not taking anything away from the usefulness today of the HP Z820 for example, there may be more good things coming from a direction we weren’t even thinking about.
An example of that can be found perhaps in the BlackMagic Cinema Camera using a sensor designed for scientists for mainstream entry-level professional creative videographers shooting raw (or in-camera ProRes422HQ and DNxHD) in an unusually affordable camera and quality post workflow.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Chris:
“Its about taking stripped down specialty cpus and placing them in very intense clusters of 50 or 100 or more.”Certainly everything you say is true if you want to build a supercomputer. I just thought there might be a different way to implement the Xeon Phi using one card. Even that might be too expensive for Apple to touch. It does seem odd that 50 cores would only use 8 GB GDDR5 memory in the Knight’s Corner card.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jason:
“Thanks, Rick… call off the dogs.”Both dogs are resting at my feet, no worries.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jason, you may not have seen this:
https://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_professional_mac_for_2013.html
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jason:
“I’m just about certain I will be buying a Windows workstation soon as the Mac Pro is EOL.”With that caveat, who could complain? Trust no one is holding their breath waiting for an EOL announcement! Since there’s another high-end offering promised by Tim Cook later in 2013, there’s no end in sight now. Time will tell.
I was happy with Windows NT on a powerful SCSI-based box from the San Fernando Valley with a lovely aperture-grill 21″ monitor until I became fatigued with the maintenance of warding off viruses and spam and had no interest in the plethora of Windows versions. I gave it away to charity and bought a Power Mac G5 with OS X Panther. No regrets. Have high expectations for the excellence of future innovations from Apple. Not everyone’s choice I understand especially when there are pressing needs to address now and next year is too late.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB