Mac Pro? who has one?
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- twokids
How is it? Unbelievable speed? or disappointing?
Do tell!
- benfal990
i had a Mac Pro, cost a lot of $
then i bought a PC for almost half the price, way more power than the Mac, and its like 2 time faster.You have to REALLY love OSX and/or have the money to buy a Mac. Because all the app are the same on both OS (Chrome, Adobe... thats what we're using all the time right?)
- Miguex0
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I think it's an understatement that people that buy macs fit in these 2 categories.a) those who really dislike windows (not necessarily love OSX)
b) those who like it because they think makes them cool.- "makes them cool" hahaha pffft. you'd have to be a shallow drone to worry bout that one.prophetone
- been using macs as my primary design tool since 1990 and frankly, in my xprnce, no one gives a shit about coolprophetone
- cool is a flossed out, dental cast skeleton-clear cased PB2400 running debianprophetone
- me because option bmoldero
- hahaha well i was gunna say somethin'prophetone
- you laugh, but the vas majority of people using macs fall in category B, believe it or not.Miguex
- the proof is on the photo below with the pony tail guy. WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING?Miguex
- well there are nerds who are desperate to be cool all over the place, macs are not the problemprophetone
- ponytail guy is option: c) those who got nothin' better to doprophetone
- but yes, there are those who only need to check email and surf banana republic and they NEED a MBProprophetone
- those people my friend, are dorks. but not really dorks. make-believe dorks? and zeekers.prophetone
- this is all on wikipedia.prophetone
- i remember working with a girl who needed a laptop for casual use and she dropped 2Gs on a fresh PBprophetone
- she had it delivered to the office, opened it in front of me and said how do i turn it on? hahaha errrprophetone
- Miguex0
- sweet ladybug, i see he's getting a lot of work done, good thing he went thru the effort to lug an iMac to starbucksprophetone
- how come i never changed the ladybug to a snailCALLES
- ArmandoEstrada0
I just can't bring myself to use windows.
- MrT0
I'm sure the title was "Mac Pro? who has one?" If you're a Windows licker, there are other threads you can read. Once that security update's finished of course.
- At least Apple is bug free:
http://www.macworld.…ETM - updates are rare, thank you. and i cant remember the last time my pc freezed/buggedbenfal99
- < I know, I'm being a complet twat for a change because I have neither a Mac Pro or a fast PC.MrT
- At least Apple is bug free:
- ETM0
More to the point, I suspect he is asking about the new Mac Pro.
- monospaced0
What. That trash can?
- moogchild0
macbook pro for everyday use. a fuck all fast win machine for AE/C4D/LR/PR.
( disconnected for that wonderful wild world of porn;) ) just bought a olympus cam. grew up using nikon... I shop at TJ Max on occasion...
fuck it.
- moldero0
Ive seen people edit video on iMacs and mac books, Im not sure how they can do it. 1 fuckin screen, 1 crappy video card? mac pro is a must for video, I know you can get a faster cheaper PC for the same amount of cash, but Ide rather spend the extra cash to NOT look at blue screens of death. I wish I could use something smaller, like a laptop, because moving sucks with big systems, but compositing over 10 layers of HD footage with another 20-40 of other layers of animations and filters sometimes just aint gonna happen on a laptop or imac.
- even with the mac pro im using proxies like a mother fucker.moldero
- ah the blue screen of death that I haven't seen on windows for 10 years. Yours, a mac and windows user.fadein11
- yeah, that's a ancient argument. Components are components, just justifying spending more on a macformed
- which is fine, btw, they are prettyformed
- autoflavour0
I do all my video stuff on an imac. granted i preferred having 2 screens and 16 cores, but sadly the agency wouldnt let me take their machine when i left.
- autoflavour0
that said, render times are fucked
- benfal990
@moldero
You need updates about Windows i see... Blue screen of death is a thing of the past. Windows don't crash anymore. Todays OS's are very very stable compared to the OS's of a few years ago. Iam working on Windows 7 at work and Windows 8 at home and very honestly, i can't remember the last time i had a bug, a crash or a freeze or anything... everything runs smoothly, everytime. For real.I really like Mac, i've been on it for many years. But I dont have that 4000-5000$ every 4-5 years to buy a new Mac Pro. I got back to PC 3 years ago, for 2,200$ i got a Dell PC with 18Gb of RAM, 2Tb RAID0 HDDs +2extra 1Tb HHDs a top of the line video card and a 22'' monitor. its like 2x faster than the Mac pro i had just before it for half the price.
If i was richer maybe i would have stick to Mac Pro.
- but it's not really possible to build a new Mac Pro for cheaper using standard partsmonospaced
- great build quality on macs on the outside, inside components not always so good.fadein11
- older 27inch imacs had masses of screen issues and hard drive fails... never had these issues on other machines.fadein11
- utopian0
I don't know one creative soul that purchased one of these trash cans.
- utopian0
"Apple Says Demand For New Mac Pro Desktop Already Exceeds Supply" -Apple
However... When asked...
"Apple doesn’t break out sales of the Mac Pro" -Apple
I smell bull shit...
- Julesvm0
my company would be the perfect candidate for one of these... we're a bunch of video / 3d professionals, all mac based, and we can justify the cost easily through our company if it made sense. So far... it doesn't.
- no expansion, with very little third party thunderbolt support (I'm sure it'll come eventually, but this is apple's fault - they introduced the standard 3 years ago and haven't supported it on their own pro machine till now)
- clock speeds are not much better. In benchmarks the i7 iMac beats it for everyday tasks. And the 12 core upgrade is monstrously expensive for lower clock speeds. Most tasks are single threaded.
- shitty 4k support. I hear they just fixed it in the new OS update.. but this one blows my mind. How did it not support proper 4k res out of the box?
- no NVIDIA. We used CUDA for our rendering, so until we get some card options... no deal.In the end your paying 5-8K for no noticeable speed gain and moving what used to be nicely concealed inside a box (HDs, Video cards etc.) onto your desk.
No thanks.
- video / 3D pros need the multi-threaded processor, making the iMac pointlessmonospaced
- we all use mac pros (old silver tower)... not saying it's useless, just saying the new one isn't markedly betterJulesvm
- The iMac is multicore m8animatedgif
- yes, it's multicore, but not 8-12 core, not even close, and only 1 vid cardmonospaced
- If you live and breath FCPX it's a great update, otherwise it's a hard decision until other apps support the dual Fire GPUs via OpenCL.evilpeacock
- So I'm getting more and more into video/3D - an iMac is not a good choice? I'm on the verge of new machine...MrT
- moldero0
that's good to know about windows.
cant be switching though, mainly because all my software Ive collected over the years is OS X,Now Iz cant leave!
- ernexbcn0
I have a late 2008 Mac Pro, bought it used recently and it's fucking great.
8 cores Xeon @ 3.2 ghz it's more than enough for what I do (web dev).