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- utopian0
101SFA!!!
- ohhhhhsnap0
hi you guise... wheres' the thread with the Mac alternatives (laptops)... been looking for it
- ideaist0
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-ma…
Anyone game?
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Hoooooooowwwwwwww muuuccccchhhhhh?
I'm a fan boy but jeez.$3,000 for an extra 6-core?
- no mouse, nor keyboard included...OBBTKN
- $1000 for an extra 6-coremonospaced
- prophetone0
- tossing this on my chargex would be two-fold: awesome xptr purchase, yeeeah it is... plus, instant divorceprophetone
- *pondersprophetone
- I got a Mac Pro a year ago; tired of waiting. iMac was nearly on fire. Do it! Send us an unboxing vid. *thumbsup*ideaist
- bargin. lol.akrok
- "Talk to a Specialist"raf
- ideaist0
#hype
- ernexbcn0
I bought a Mac Pro from 2008 from a friend recently because he wasn't using it:
It's a 8 core Xeon beast, for the work I do it's honestly a monster (I do web development programming). The new one for me would be overkill but for people working on video, special FX it's almost a must have (or a machine of this category that is).
- definitely overkill for a text editorfadein11
- should last a long time for you then. which is good value.akrok
- Think of the power bills!animatedgif
- ernexbcn0
- 3x smaller for 3x the tagprophetone
- I didn't realise it was that small!set
- inhaler970
Heres the thing:
Say you spend 10k on this, how long will it last before its outdated?
more than 5 years?
more than 8 years?
more than 10 years?
- utopian0
10k for a black trash can?
- deathboy0
xeon 12 core - $2500 - dont know bang for buck comparisons and still not sure why apple goes with xeons and costly ECC ram.
2 custom GPU's similiar to W7000 from what i can find out -
~$2500(gambling on more open CL support vs the past cuda)64GB ram - ~ $900 (what someone need this much for I do not know. I have a hard time using my 3 year old 12GB 1900 ram)
PCie HD - guess $1k to $1200. A samsung thing only for ultrabooks for apple and sony. Using samsung controllers so get around 800MB vs 550MB regular SSDs. This is the thing that I'm really interested in. For once I have to say apple on the hardware front might actually be helping lower the price of new technology instead of selling mid level hardware as spankin new. Im speculative of the controller and the custom stuff, especially looking at a 1TB OCZ PCIe drive that does 2GB transfer for about $4.5-6.4K. If they help lower the price and bring down the cost of PCIe drives that are nto so custom though I'll be pumped.
Think thats the basic bones which is about ~$7100 in hardware for ram/cpu/mem/hdd/gpu... meaning there is still cost of case, PSU, case, fan, and mobo. So 3k on those. Still a decent profit margin outside R&D, likely more than regular PC but a lot less than they are use to on the mac pro front.
They are definitely going smaller form factor which is great for profit margins on periperheals. No room for HDs in case means they can sell more externals for price mark ups, monitors. Im curious how the external PSU looks/size, because I dont see one inside. And im still highly skeptical on heat and wether it will really perform and last. I'd definitely wait a bit and check benchmarks, heat, and see if there is any hardware problems before I'd sign up for one. Personally I'd just build a pc with same power for less and go with larger form factor because the smaller form factor to me is only a liability. Rather have a nice looking large case that cools well that i can easily buy hardware than a little box with tons of cables and shit coming out of to say hey look its small.
So there's my breakdown. Would have been easier if i could have found one to copy and paste
- Hombre_Lobo0
http://www.macworld.com/article/…
Mac pro benchmark results. Gets beaten in a couple of tests by the 2013 retina MacBook pro and gets beaten on quite a few tests by a custom 2013 27" iMac. The iMac seems like better value, get a big display too. But upgrading is tougher I imagine.
- It's not like the pro is really upgradable, and you can add stuff to iMac via Thunderbolt too.shaft
- Plus, after a couple years you can sell your used iMac and get a higher % return. More people looking for used iMacs...nb
- yeah. that's wicked.akrok
- Yeh good points guys.Hombre_Lobo
- animatedgif0
^ worth keeping in mind the Mac Pro is an OpenCL computer... processors have fucking stagnated.
- what does it means?GeorgesIV
- seriously, I just googled OpenCL and I still don't get itGeorgesIV
- I mean a lot of things are offloaded to the GPUs to computeernexbcn
- Is it? Awesome! Yeh, it's fucking embarrassing how long it's taking the software world to take advantage of GPUsHombre_Lobo
- Even now people say with 3d work get a good gpu, when there are only about 3 softwares that actually use the gpu.Hombre_Lobo
- Like octane render -
http://render.otoy.c…
Which is incredibleHombre_Lobo
- ernexbcn0
"Both Macworld and FCP.co mentioned a gentle but notable current of warm air rising from the machine, but that the Mac Pro's fan was barely noticeable. If something is placed on top of the machine's vent hole, like a book, the Mac Pro will shut itself off before any damage can occur"
- ernexbcn0
^
"I started slowly, adding a simple Dry Heat look. That played back in real time, no dropped frames. How about a Gaussian Blur? That’s usually a bit more intensive, especially with the huge numbers of pixels we're dealing with here. No dropped frames. Nice. How about a Gaussian blur with a Bleach Bypass look? Still in real time... ok, let’s get serious...
And so it went on... Multiple colour corrections, effects, transitions. This thing keeps playing back! In fact at one point I took a RED RAW 4K clip into a 4K project and just started working through the list of video effects (many of which are 4K ready). Watch the result for yourself"
- "Mac Pro was able to play back 16 simultaneous streams of 4K video"ernexbcn
- zarkonite0
Re: 18 effects on 4k Video.
He's using "Best Performance" so the effects are NOT being applied to the 4K video but just the windowed video which probably represents about 720p. He tried playing back with Best Quality but he was getting dropped frames.
Not to say this isn't a well balanced machine but you can already do what he's doing with a pair of Quadros.