Vladimir Kucherov
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I’m surprised multiple GPUs can share that pipeline, but I must admit my understanding of PCI-express architecture is limited.
Are you referring to anything in particular talking about 1st gen apple product? Surely this mac pro can’t be qualified as first gen.
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If only they gave us 2-3 more PCIe slots, we’d be able to at least fit our own USB3, fibre, GPUs and whatever else comes along.
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Ah sorry, I did misread that. 3 slots referred to the 3 slots left after the GPU. So 4 slots total. Whew, ok they’re not crazy at Apple.
Still, it very much maintains the status quo and leaves us with no new GPUs.
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I think so. But unfortunately, those types of measures are so easily bypassed it would certainly hurt BM in a certain way. The beauty of releasing a Mac version of DaVinci (how I saw it at least) was that due to the Mac’s closed and limited nature it provided X power with limited growth potential, but that potential was physically limited by the entire closed architecture.
In artificial licensing limit is much more easily broken. Of course, I don’t want to say that everyone will go out and crack open their DaVinci to get a $50,000 software for $1,000, but the ability to do that becomes so much more accessible that it should be on BMs mind when considering something like that.
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Well the disturbing thing is that basically the DaVinci Mac is designed to run on Hardware that is now officially EOL with no new hardware coming out. I don’t know what the mood in BM offices is like right now.
Problem with Linux Soft is that whatever restriction put on it would have to be artificial, or else their price-point differentiation dissapears. I’m not sure – I am still hoping that we’re missing a piece of the puzzle – I for one am a little puzzled.
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Wow, extremely dissapointing announcement. Check this out:
ATI Only means no DaVinci love. Maybe someone will use those beta GTX 480 drives to create some homebrew support for better GPUs?
This is the big one:
3 PCI-e slots, only one of them being 16x 2.0
That’s right, even though we were complaining about things getting tight, they actually cut down a PCI slot. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this makes it all but impossible to run DaVinci on the new Pros?
So am I just misunderstanding something or is Apple really screwing its pro users right now?
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Sounds very well setup. Thank you very much. Can’t wait for this to finally ship!
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Hmm, that makes sense, about playback. In Color I have so far stayed away from editing raw in-program. I always conform to DPX first, just because it’s a little more responsive when grading (since hey, nothing plays realtime in color anyway).
Can you throw some recommendations for a RAID system? It seems like whenever I look I only see $7k + boxes. Anything a bit more budget-conscious?
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Absolutely. If you build a PC box using quality components (even then it’s cheap), it can be a great machine. I just build one for a client, it’s fast, powerful, as quiet as my Mac Pro, and has the kind of expansion room you’d only dream about on a mac. Of course, installing OSX on such a thing has questionable legal standing, and questionable driver support, but it might still be worth a try!
The GPU choices and prices alone are a dream on the PC side of things.
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There’s been rumors that the new macs might have fibre connections built in – something intel and apple have been reported to be developing. I’m sure that won’t be cheap either.
There’s always hackintosh – maybe I’ll build a $1500 hackintosh beast and test Resolve on it – if it doesn’t work I still have a new render/encoding machine!