Apple = Fail
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- Killer
I've just bought a new 3D workstation for when i'm working at home and away from our studio.
I got the rig for £1980 with a Xeon GPU, NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800, etc, which is great.
Now on to Apple: Why the hell are they shipping a Mac Pro starting at £1,899.00 with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB (rebranding of the 9500 GT model)?
Yes people...a GPU equivalent to a fucking gamer card and absolutely useless for creating 3D content!
Considering the Mac Pro is aimed at the professional, it's pathetic that they would even consider the GeForce GT 120 in that system? And for £1,899.00! Are they on drugs?
Apple have failed big time on this one! I feel for the poor cunt who bought a Mac Pro thinking they were getting "the best".
- chossy0
Bunch of dicks eh?.
- Killer0
@chossy,
It's madness on Apple's part!
- Orbit0
Phuh!
Gah.
- chossy0
I FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
- Makes me want to spit some spit out.Orbit
- my mouth is as dry as a ships biscuit due to the amount of spat I spit out.chossy
- You need a spit re-up homie.Orbit
- my mouth won't open seen as my lips have dried shut, I will die soon.chossy
- I leave the people of QBN...... fuck all you fagen grabbing cunts.chossy
- Stab your cheek with a biro casing and ask someone to spit down it. You're gonna be okay Chossy.Orbit
- Take your time but ffs do it quickly or you will die, I repeat you WILL DIE.Orbit
- This is an image I had hoped never to imagine in life :'(chossy
- What, someone gobbing down a biro casing planted in your cheek? or maybe you mean dying.Orbit
- monospaced0
I'm pretty sure you can change and/or add video cards.
- GRAC0
What a mean, vicious and heartless people..
- monospaced0
Isn't a card optimized for OpenGL performance, as opposed to DirectX, the best for 3D applications and rendering?
- chossy0
I don't think anyone buying the entry level mac pro would think they are buying the best yo!. Anyway fuck it why even worry about it, have a coke and a smile.
- designbot0
That isn't a good card for gaming either. The video cards Apple uses have always been piss poor in the gaming realm as well. I am with you. While they make nice machines, they really can't satisfy an enthusiast or someone who needs tons of horsepower like you for video/3D etc. In the end you are paying top-shelf pricing for hardware that is mid-range at best.
- Raniator0
That is mindless of them. Have they no heart?
- Killer0
@designbot:
Absolutely, for me Apple seem to be more concerned with how their systems looks on the outside as opposed to the quality of the compoents inside the rig.
- I wouldn't say that is their main concern, exactly. The Mac Pro is no slouch.monospaced
- Yes Mac definitely focuses heavily on aesthetics. The OS is also a nice draw. I have a feeling that if Mac put top notch hardware in all their machines the price would be more like $6,000.designbot
- hardware in all their machines the price would be more like $6,000 (which is not uncommon for enthusiast PC setups)designbot
- They could more with hardware for the current price, however.designbot
- *They could DO more with hardware for the current price, however.designbot
- stem0
Hey, no one is putting a gun to anyones head here.
I think the Pro tag is a bit misleading, as Pro covers all sorts of jobs, tasks etc.
3d graphics is a specific (niche) thing and anyone getting a machine to do this would take the graphics card into account. Can you not upgrade the card for a few hundred quid?
Anyway, surely it what you do with what counts?
- and then the overall costs is about 180% more than the SAME hardware running windows.zarkonite
- Pixter0
According to apple, beautiful machines makes beautiful content
- harlequino0
Anyone I know that does serous 3D and VFX work have ridiculous custom built rigs that cost in the tens of thousands.
- monospaced0
And, anyone doing serious 3D at a respectable animation studio (think Pixar) is using proprietary software much of the time, or running Maya for Linux.
- twokids0
sacrilege! QBN should shut this thread down. speaking against the Apple Church in this way.
- Yolo0
is the ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB any good for 3d - the card option on the apple site