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All-New Mac Pro Launches Thursday, December 19 Starting at $2999
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Now I can finally hook this up to watch the 49RS get their butts handed to them by Seattle in 4k!!
Then onto some serious design...
Now I can finally hook this up to watch the 49RS get their butts handed to them by Seattle in 4k!!
Then onto some serious design...
Yeah, but not at this price point. I can see how Apple considers everything under $1,000 as disposable. But these machines are going to regularly get specced out at $4,000 or more. At that price they have really should be repairable. Heck even the risk of damage during manufacture is too great to not have these be repairable. It is one thing to toss most of an iPhone when something goes wrong during manufacturing. But you've got to be able to break these bad boys back down into their base components or else the losses will be too great.
Unless you want it for other reasons, I'll be honest and say that there are cheaper and equivalent options for gaming. Plus you can't upgrade the GPU in this for newer games in the future.
True confessions time: right now I'm running my studio primarily on a quad core i7 Mini Server with a 17" MBP as backup. I have the internal RAM bumped up to 16GB and for Lightwave modeling/animating/rendering it's serviceable if not stellar, and even Premiere and After Effects do well enough in 1080p HD which is the resolution I work at most often. The Mini is driving a 27" Apple Cinema Display plus a secondary HP monitor over HDMI.
Really, I consider the Mini to be under-rated, even with the cruddy graphics chip. It's gotten me through the growing pains of my little studio nicely and now into a position where I can move up to the big leagues.
There will always be expensive computers that most of us don't need. I develop expert systems (non-consumer software), work with very large photos and images, and I don't even need this machine. A regular $1000 Core i7 box with an SSD works just fine. Those who need a MacPro know it, and they won't worry about the $3000 cost. Other companies make Xeon rigs as well, and they're not cheap.
If I complained about anything, that would be the lack of a bigger Mac mini with a real video card. A small desktop box, which is not an all-in-one. Core i7, GTX760, SSD would do it. The video board alone would be many times bigger than the entire Mac mini, though.
A little sensitive aren't you? It's either a tablet, laptop, AIO or desktop. An HP Z8200 is a desktop computer, one of workstation class but still a desktop. If you look at HP's site some of what you might call a "desktop" and what you might call a "workstation" appear to be built on the same chassis (Zs and ProDesks/Elite Desks).
You have PCIe based flash storage?
You have a Xeon e5?
ECC memory?
Complete system stability?
..."MUCH more powerful"...
Doubt it.
256 Gigs of SSD RAM on both of the stock configurations. That's a pro machine?
Yep. It's upgradeable you know. Some people don't need more than that for a boot drive, so why make them pay for what they don't need?
And "256 gigs of ssd RAM" is nonsense.
Renders are slower than a drive anyway. Writing to a hard drive has never been a bottleneck in my experience.
I've spoken to 2 Apple Stores thus far, and both have indicated that the new Mac Pro will NOT be available in store tomorrow - only online. Oh well.
This is just sentimentality. Today's x86 workstations smoke those workstations in every way possible.
The worst comment on here. Yes they were fast at the time for about 3 years. But had next to no software or support.
Not too surprised. Most professionals won't be buying base models. Most will be customizing them at some level.
We're making orders tomorrow with 1TB HD, 32GB RAM and either the D500 or D700.
There was more to my sentiment. It was self-identified as wishful thinking.
In the past, I've always just deducted the Macs, software and peripherals all in one year via the Section 179 depreciation. I never purchase enough to exceed the max $105k deduction and I always make more income than what I am trying to deduct. You can do this even if you are still making payments on it. Some people might choose to deduct over 5 years but I really don't like to keep track of what I deducted when. It's just easier to take the deduction all in one year.
I really dislike that Apple does this. But hey, for the price difference you could probably just come down to the US and pick one up here.
Actually that's also what I do. I just always pay cash for my purchases so had no idea concerning your question about how to handle payment plans, hence my advice to punt and ask.