Experience has shown me that once you start going into Fibre channel price really isn't a concern.
As I said, the real concern because adding another party to the mix. It's not something I am pressed about, but those that have to troubleshoot this stuff want as little parties involved as possible, or at best want to deal with one company to handle those issues.
And again, Avid will undoubtedly be certifying cards/boxes such as those (which I am already well aware of) to be used with ISIS systems.
For right now, and for what I have been told, Avid doesn't support those systems. They may shortly given the current state of affairs.
You don't throw random parts into a bottom of the barrel ISIS system which would run upwards of $110,000 for the GigE chassis, then call Avid's abysmal tech support to help you troubleshoot your issues. The first thing they will tell you is to remove any uncertified parts. If they are nice, they will ask you why you didn't get cert'ed parts and direct you to a vendor that can help. If it's the usual day, they will close your ticket and hand up.
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The paid version is true 64-bit and will show you true performance, perhaps 2000 higher or more.
Agreed, but that's still not very much all things considered. The HP Z820 I linked earlier may have gotten 40,000+, compared to the MacPro's 23,000, due to it's dual socket nature, but that's what many are looking for in a workstation.
Not to mention that the HP Z820 was using yesteryear's Xeon chips.
No, it has 40 3.0 lanes. Plus an additional 8 2.0 lanes through the SouthBridge.
And if it were a dual socket system, you'd get another 40 3.0 lanes from the second socket.
The Apple Itube - too little, too late.
http://ark.intel.com/products/64622...E5-4650-20M-Cache-2_70-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI
Just fast enough to be impressive for iMac and Macbook Pro users.
I am really hoping Apple puts out a MacPro . . . . PRO. Twice the size with twice the CPU power, RAM, space for internal expansion, and actual PCIe slots.
Interestingly enough, the G3 was the first real breakaway from the traditional workstation. The PowerMac G5 put it back in line with the rest of the industry albeit with half of the internal components. Apple was really taking pages from HP, Dell, IBM (at the time) and other case makers that had long been tool-less towers.
I have a feeling that Apple won't be changing anything other than the way Apple users think of workstation. By that, I really mean there will be a bunch of folks that really don't know what's out there in terms of technology being smug about a machine that barely scratches the surface of what a modestly priced workstation can do.
Kind of how we were in the G4 laptops days.
