I was fooling around in the online apple store, and started customizing a mac pro. I put everything up as high as possible and it came out to 22000. Would u spend 22k on a comp? Haha buuuut it did have 32gb memory
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$22,000 mac pro
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The Mac Pro usually has a top end configuration around this price range, so I don't see why it is shocking. Some people in the professional world need a computer that powerful, so they would be buying it, it isn't marketed towards the normal consumer.
Programming or Video Production. Although they may not need all of the Server Options
I would assume rendering or something similar to that. Where they would use the full processor potential and where time matters.
I've given my friend with a 8-core 2.93 Mac Pro some of my Terragen pieces to render, they still take days.
The reality is a lot of studios of certain sizes have specific machines solely for specific purposes. But, maybe they used it for that. The people that use Mac Pro's like this are the non-super huge studios.
I can't wait for a Mac Pro so I can finally play all the PC games I've bought at decent framerates.
Programming or Video Production. Although they may not need all of the Server Options
Not even dude. Final cut runs great on my MBP.
No, Mac Pro's are certainly not used for rendering CG movies. Studios rendering film resolution frames are on bladed render farms that cost in the millions.
number crunching, though i highly doubt a professional would get a MP for that, maybe 100 of them might be up to standard - too bloody expensive but!!
Programming or Video Production. Although they may not need all of the Server Options
Not programming, either
A lot of that money would be simply wasted for buying stuff completely overpriced und under speced. For instance you would not be getting SSDs and W5580.
Maybe univercitys for research.
I know for sure that If one day I got a lucky number from the lottery and it's a huge amount, I sure order one just for the kick of it!
I'm fairly certain that there are not people that just spec it completely out, it comes with a bunch of unnecessary stuff and when you spend that kind of money, you want specific stuff for what you are doing. Visual people will get specific monitors, etc. etc. etc. Also, at the kind of money, chances are you are buying different hard drives for different purposes. The comments were more to, of people that might be looking to spend that kind of money on a Mac Pro, here are the users...
It's a testament to the fact that even some pro users are too... er... uninformed to buy their own hard drives and RAM.
Granted, an update is needed, but what terrain generation software takes advantage of current Mac Pros?
most film remastering is done on them, and i would assume at top configuration, they use banks of the things, also for shake on big productions, i.e. Benjamin button. If people didnt want it, they wouldnt make it.
this is an old article but helps: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14919
this is an old article but helps: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14919