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  • Bennn2

    These new display and the Mac Pro are for pros and businesses, knowing how long tech last, only a few years, investing all that money in these for an individual would be a very bad choice, unless that individual has lots of money to burn.

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    • Thanks Bennnnnnnnn!Ianbolton
    • What kinds of "businesses" buy such hardware? I'm working in advertising for half of my life++ and never seen anything exceed eizos top tier lineup and the likemekk
    • how long tech last? my macpro1,1 is over 10 yrs old and still going strong.hans_glib
    • ^Gnash
    • @mekk post-production, video editing, effects, sound studios, etc. - the Pro market - the guys with the moneys. Advertising barely affords top of the line iMacsgrafician
    • I never understood how can someone use the same computer for over 10 years... But if it makes the job for you, goodBennn
    • i guess i prefer to waste my money on wine, women and song, rather than shiny new tech that does exactly what the old tech did.hans_glib
    • Well, then they'll continue to shed users. Pricing regular people out of products doesn't retain them.section_014
    • pros i know (video post/pre, animation and sound editing) buy these things for representation and as a desktop extension for the specialized hardware :Dsted
    • only bullshit artists need this type of stuff right now.sted
    • broadcast monitors cost around 7k-20k+. pretty basic shit if you've ever dabbled in video. surprised this is even a question on qbn.inteliboy
    • and they all rush out and buy apple now and enjoy genius bar support? Stuff is expensive because support and I don't see Apple leading here by farmekk
    • It's upgradeable, supposedly. With all those PCI slots, it's kinda built to outlast it's own current tech. We'll see.monospaced
    • @sted, you really need to come check out some of the cutting edge video boutiques around me, because they MORE than need this kind of machine.monospaced
    • A twitter thread from a guy that handles Macs for the Pro industry: https://twitter.com/…grafician
    • ^ from link: "tl;dr: The Mac Pro and display fill a large gap in Apple's professional product line. Prices are reasonable for the professional user....Gnash
    • ".... If you want one at home, you are an idiot."Gnash
    • Well, looks like they went all out! All out of everyone's fucking price range. Jesus fucking Christ, Apple!davey_g
    • $900 is not bad for a monitor standGnash
    • #Bennnsplanation of the day! LOL! Thanks, BennnKrassy
    • This is my purposeBennn
    • good for finance co's that are doing big data crunching.shapesalad
    • @monospaced i'm not saying that there is no market for this product. if you don't have the option to just burn money on new hw in every yearsted
    • apple hardware wasn't your choice.sted
    • and i I think apple will be interesting again.sted
    • @sted, you said anyone who needs this is a "bullshit artist" as if you couldn't even imagine a scenario. How was I supposed to interpret that nonsense?monospaced
    • literally today I could USE this machine to crunch through 18 8k renders that we need for a bespoke projection mapping project going live on Thursdaymonospaced
    • I guarantee it's not bullshit. We spent $12K to build an equivalent rig and it's made up of several machines and GPUs (none Mac). And it's probably slower.monospaced
    • https://www.youtube.…
      see NVIDIA Quadro server solution for video post production at 0:36 :) this was just 4k in 2016 :)      sted
    • what i'm trying to explain that this is a good path but this hardware isn't forward looking as it should be, and i'm afraid that it won't inspire anythingsted
    • sure it is ... but you are counting Afterburner, which is the secret weapon that not even NVIDIA is matchingmonospaced
    • "... capable of handling up to three streams of 8K ProRes RAW or 12 streams of 4K ProRes RAW" FREEING UP the GPUs for processingmonospaced
    • I can't imagine anyone anywhere that could possibly claim that isn't forward thinking or inspiring.monospaced
    • nostalgia for sure :) ProRes RAW is like mov and this new machine is like the 2006 macpro with a more closed packaging.sted
    • lol okmonospaced
    • Mac Pro is for pro’s?
      Bugger me.      MrT
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