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Apple Sends Mac Pro Posters to Journalists: 'The Computer We Were Insane to Build'
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Intoxicated by their own narcissism, I wonder if they broke their arm off to pat themselves on the back.....
If you had ever been in a proper, professional studio. You would know that protools, and logic users are well used to the idea of having external units hanging off the side of their mac. Heck my uni studio (upwards of £10mill spent on the entire complex) had 4 studios with mixers in each, a Mac Pro, and protools hd24 boxes hooked up into the PCI expansion ports, with some old serial connection (can't remember the name off the top of my head)
I am more than certain avid/digidesign are working with apple, and designing a new system which goes like the wind via TB2.
Avid, and protools have become synomonous with apple n mac ever since the dawn of time pretty much, so there will be changes down the line for all that kinda gear
In my mind I don't get the big fuss, there was a reason some clever soul invented cable ties, tape, n cable holders.
It's not like you particularly need access to the cards etc when everything is set up (I rarely have to go traipsing around my rather modular Mac mini studio recording rig in my bedroom.
If you are convinced that the cards are gonna become that much of an eyesore, drill some holes, n ventilation into a drawer under your desk, place external units in drawer, or some other enclosure (rack mount or otherwise, make it sound proof n cooled blah di blah) job done.
Heck if you want it done proper, you can situate the external devices some 10m away if I remember the spec of thunderbolt 2 correctly.
Sometimes change is necessary, I see this change as a good one, one that is no doubt causing headaches for quite a few PC OEMS the world over, on how to counteract this rather large blow to the market. Having said all that, there is no doubt it's a risky change. I can see it paying off
Whoops, long post, maaahhhh bad
Sometimes change is indeed needed. Apple may at time change too much, but to anyone who thought that the PCI cards stuffed in their Macs were going to last forever, or change would not happen, it's time.
And if you are really set on the old case, you can still buy those systems from the refurb store.
If you had ever been in a proper, professional studio. You would know that protools, and logic users are well used to the idea of having external units hanging off the side of their mac. Heck my uni studio (upwards of £10mill spent on the entire complex) had 4 studios with mixers in each, a Mac Pro, and protools hd24 boxes hooked up into the PCI expansion ports, with some old serial connection (can't remember the name off the top of my head)
I am more than certain avid/digidesign are working with apple, and designing a new system which goes like the wind via TB2.
Avid, and protools have become synomonous with apple n mac ever since the dawn of time pretty much, so there will be changes down the line for all that kinda gear
In my mind I don't get the big fuss, there was a reason some clever soul invented cable ties, tape, n cable holders.
It's not like you particularly need access to the cards etc when everything is set up (I rarely have to go traipsing around my rather modular Mac mini studio recording rig in my bedroom.
If you are convinced that the cards are gonna become that much of an eyesore, drill some holes, n ventilation into a drawer under your desk, place external units in drawer, or some other enclosure (rack mount or otherwise, make it sound proof n cooled blah di blah) job done.
Heck if you want it done proper, you can situate the external devices some 10m away if I remember the spec of thunderbolt 2 correctly.
Sometimes change is necessary, I see this change as a good one, one that is no doubt causing headaches for quite a few PC OEMS the world over, on how to counteract this rather large blow to the market. Having said all that, there is no doubt it's a risky change. I can see it paying off
Whoops, long post, maaahhhh bad
Ah, finally someone making some sense. Universal Audio and Apogee have introduced TB interfaces also. On the video/film side of things where I am, all of our storage is external and in a separate room. We use fibre to connect to that so I could seen needing an expansion chassis for the the card but that would be mounted under the desk and out of sight.
Phil's getting emotional
I'm sorry, but "kick the living $#&%"??
It is simply not Apple's brand voice to use playful profanity especially not the use of grawlixes.
I hate to say the clichéd line "This wouldn't have happened when Steve was around," but that copy has Phil-Schiller-is-now-unedited written all over it.
I'm sorry, but "kick the living $#&%"??
It is simply not Apple's brand voice to use playful profanity especially not the use of grawlixes.
I hate to say the clichéd line "This wouldn't have happened when Steve was around," but that copy has Phil-Schiller-is-now-unedited written all over it.
If you are only using it for stills, a Pro will be total overkill. Even if you were editing raw video, you'd probably be better off going with the top end iMac and using the money you save on fast Thunderbolt external storage.
The Mac Pro is for people doing 3D work.
But that's the thing, it's not really a cost savings... and the video is much less capable even with this decked out system. If the graphics card weren't a mobile one...
Real question is, will the drivers in the new MacPro be written in a way where a Photoshop/Lightroom/gamer will be able to make use full use of them?
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im sure there will be THAT dedicated nerd in a basement in the first weekend of release.
He will go buy the mac pro, rip it open, put the innards into the old mac pro chassis, paint it anodised black, add some PCI cards, n post all over the web... "yeeeaaahhh man check it out, my new, 'old' mac pro!"
then you go onto his facebook profile n find out he was the co-founder for pystar!
lol!
Gonna be a lot of room left over.. or a godawefullmess of cables where he utilized all the internal drive bays for TB and USB devices..
precisely.
Im seeing good things coming outta this new mac pro already.
What is more interesting in my mind is how this all implicates itself upon the laptop/smaller desktop line, in terms of look, feel and technology held within. I can see the mac mini, and iMac both getting quite inclusive upgrades in the next year or so. Mac mini in particular. *crosses fingers*
Gonna be a lot of room left over.. or a godawefullmess of cables where he utilized all the internal drive bays for TB and USB devices..
lol... thats him, and his mums project for the weekend then...to tidy the cables up.
Exactly what I thought lol.
I think I'll scratch some money just to get the base edition. I mean, the revolutionary design is of magnitude similar to that when the computer moved from huge hallways into boxes that can fit under a desk in your house. It's gonna be a piece of computer history.
Don't forget the free PCIe storage. Or the free memory. Or the free ports.
Or the fact that it's made in America.
Absolutely. GPU and eventually CPU. I don't use my computer for work or anything and so I dont really need an excessive amount of storage.
It's awesome, but what's functionally good about the new design? A classic cheese-grater tower with the same insides plus the SATA, IDE, and PCIe slots would just be better... but 1/7th as cool. TB2 plus PCIe, no compromise.
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Yes, the GPU! Not being sarcastic or anything. It's a big deal to have PCIe slots. Also, internal drives are cheaper than external ones, not that it matters that much.
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Yes, the GPU! Not being sarcastic or anything. It's a big deal to have PCIe slots. Also, internal drives are cheaper than external ones, not that it matters that much.
It hasn't gained traction because CUDA got a strong foothold and as long as Nvidia cards are available everyone will take the path of least resistance.
That's why we will not be seeing Nvidia GPUs on the Mac Pro. Apple is betting that the workstation will be so compelling that users will switch to OpenCL based tools just to use it, forcing other providers to ditch the proprietary framework.
It's a gamble, but it's the only shot for OpenCL at this point, and really the only shot at a massively parallel future for all computer users, not just pros.
I am speaking mainly about pro video. Any other so called "Pros" don't even need this new Mac Pro. An iMac will work fine for them. The "Thunderbolt Rack" I am talking about would be for render farms, Sans and so on. Maybe even a rack to hold several mac pros. So I'm not sure what you are "correcting" me about.
