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Apple Reveals All-New Mac Pro With Up to 28-Core Processor and 1.5TB of RAM, Starting at $5,999
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who is this machine's target audience?? billionaire video editors??
Most companies aren't out there spending 50K on a single station....
Most companies aren't out there spending 50K on a single station....
What are you even talking about? Complete rubbish. You design for MacOS and it work... and they rolled out a big list of involved companies adding specific code for it
They're really insane with the pricing. Their Macbook 'Pro's are non upgradeable and waay overpriced. I think we should have known this was coming but I was hoping they'd have one foot in reality. My aging Mac Pro (circa 2010) has 32gigs of RAM, 40TB of expandable storage, blu ray writable drive and a current video card so I'm good for now. I love that there is an upgrade path for me though. Maybe I can score a used one and upgrade it someday. The cost though. Holey smoke. Even an identically configured PC is a 1/4 of the cost. I'm fine with paying more for Apple, but that much more? 1K for a stand? WTF. So happy they designed an actual Pro machine that is somewhat upgrade-able though.
Happy to see a serious pro machine back in the line up. I know a few professional animators who moved away from Apple because of this. Looks like a tribute to the pre-trashcan pro. Aesthetically I will reserve my judgement until I see it in the flesh.
Looks at price... nope clearly says 6k...
look... a good sweet spot system will be 9k I suspect. And full on apple parts spec 20K
Exactly! Its functional "ugliness" is actually beautiful to my old eyes. This is a server quality rig in desktop form. Attach that new $4999 monitor to it, place it under a desk or in a cabinet, and let this baby do its thing -FUNCTION!
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Again, it's not an identically configured PC if it uses a consumer CPU instead of a server class one. An older Xeon 6134 CPU with similar speeds but "only" handles" 768GB of RAM as opposed to the 1.5TB of the new version has a MSRP of $2200. That's already a third of the cost for an older generation one. How are you going to get it to 1/4 of the cost with the rest of the parts?
I love how people think that they have a gaming computer processor and think it is a workstation processor. Like saying my GMC 6
cylinder is the same as your DD16 semi engine
cylinder is the same as your DD16 semi engine
That is my point. There may be too few to make it viable, and there are many missing out on a simpler version of the format.
That is a great idea - buy one of these things in about 2-3 years at a more affordable price, then upgrade as needed (if it is, indeed, easily upgradable at the component level). The cheese grater is reborn!
How much should a Xeon workstation like the 2019 Mac Pro cost? What do equivalent workstations cost?
It's what they're using. For all the people here saying that this monitor is for pros.. pros are using 12-SDI in their workflow, they cannot use this monitor because it uses consumer-grade IO.
All the idiots stating that the Mac Pro is only for high end pro animation studios and the like. I have always had Mac towers, I love OS X but don’t like the iMac form or MacBook. Apple always had a base entry tower for designers like myself G3, G4, G5, Mac Pro 3,4,5. They were affordable, expandable, etc. However Apple are now only interested in the people willing and able to spend 1000 bucks on a sodding monitor stand. Screw you too Apple!
It's actually a great comparison that show's people are paying a huge tax for wanting a mac vs a pc. I don't believe it's the PC and all of the specs you listed that's the program. It's the WINDOWS software. People are willing to pay the MAC premium price in order to avoid the headaches that Window's come across. (Just a personal opinion based on personal experience within the industry I work in.)
Serious editors/colorists are.
Not necessarily. I color correct with dual 5K displays over TB3. DaVinci Resolve works fine with or without SDI. Their ultralink cards can output to TB3 as well.
About $2200 of that is for the server class Xeon processor: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...old-6134-processor-24-75m-cache-3-20-ghz.html
That does not really change much. Dell configurator adds $363 when switching to 6134. But Dell's memory and GPU are vastly superior. Not to mention that it's a dual CPU workstations. Those usually cost way more than the single socket ones.