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Mac Pro CPU and GPU Upgrades See Significant Price Drop
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I wish there is bare-bone MacPro with flexible component configurations.
1151 socket, non-ECC memory slots, a M.2 NVMe, and a few choices of aftermarket GPUs would be fantastic.
How much would I pay?
hmm, $700?
If I were Apple, I might charge $999.
The setup includes, case, fan, motherboard, power unit, OS, and the Apple tax. Not a bad deal for those who appreciate the design.
1151 socket, non-ECC memory slots, a M.2 NVMe, and a few choices of aftermarket GPUs would be fantastic.
How much would I pay?
hmm, $700?
If I were Apple, I might charge $999.
The setup includes, case, fan, motherboard, power unit, OS, and the Apple tax. Not a bad deal for those who appreciate the design.
So far it's all just promises and public relations.
New Mac Pros will have to be portless and cord less to interest me. What good is a Mac if it is encumbered with ports and cords?
I know graphics professionals using Hackintoshes. The machines they built are reliable and cheaper.
Here is why I dislike these responses: it's fundamentally wrong. Apple customers care about the brand and the quality of heir products. They are not like customers of other products. They have an emotional investment in the performance, reception, and productivity of Apple. This isn't gum. Apple customers may have decades of time and money invested in the ecosystem and brand. They have attached their soul to a culture they have helped craft. This may seem absurd to you, but it isn't to them. They care about this stuff. They care a lot. They care enough to join, and contribute to a forum to share their relationship with Apple. So act smug, but there is in fact someone forcing them to buy it: themselves. So yeah, you are wrong. Disagree if you want, but don't try and act like the Apple culture exists independent of their products. There is a reason this site is so large, and lasted so long. Even the birth of MacRumors was due to the existance of so many Mac Fan sites it was inevitable that a MacRome would emerge. We welcome you, even if you don't want to live here, but try not to be rude.
(Personally I didn't like the OP comparison, but I am willing to respect the attempt to provide an understandable analogy.)
This is an insane price change:
All in all, a maxed out Mac Pro machine with a 12-core processor, 64GB RAM, 1TB flash storage, and dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs will now cost $6,999 instead of $9,599.
Really shows how overpriced their offering was that Apple is capable of doing this.
All in all, a maxed out Mac Pro machine with a 12-core processor, 64GB RAM, 1TB flash storage, and dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs will now cost $6,999 instead of $9,599.
Really shows how overpriced their offering was that Apple is capable of doing this.
Apple 1997: Think Different
Apple 2017: Better Late Than Never
Apple 2017: Better Late Than Never
A true PRO, power user does not quibble about price they need the technology.
The fact that Apple released the 2013 Mac Pro to begin with, shows that Apple did not learn from their Cube-shaped mistake. If a company can't learn from past mistakes, well, this is the kind of trouble that's going to result.
This can barely be called satisfaction for those who've been waiting two years for a new Mac Pro, and is still overpriced for 2013 hardware, but it's something...
This can barely be called satisfaction for those who've been waiting two years for a new Mac Pro, and is still overpriced for 2013 hardware, but it's something...
a lot of people that are using hackintosh not because it's cheaper, it's because they can use the latest hardwares, many many generations ahead of what a mac pro can offer......
You think price is the only factor? The Mac Pro is running on 5 year old hardware.
I don't really care about the pro itself but really how hard is it for a computer company to either A)Update the hardware enough to keep their market share up to date, we all know mac has never been ahead of anything in the power department though or B)Allow consumers to update the hardware later down the line which most macs don't other than RAM.
anyway, I have given up on getting a new iMac anytime soon. My late 2013 still does everything just fine.
anyway, I have given up on getting a new iMac anytime soon. My late 2013 still does everything just fine.
There are a lot of people in post production who use Handbrake for fast conversion of QuickTimes to post approval files to clients. I believe now in Handbrake you can setup a watch folder which makes it even easier.
So yeah, Handbrake can rip DVDs. But it's also a very easy, customizable, and quick conversion software that does what some of us pros need it to do.
In regards to the studios making millions of dollars not running Hackintoshes, many of them aren't running Mac either. If you're pumping out a 3D render farm or running a large multiuser edit facility such as at a TV network or reality show post production, you're not using Macs. You're likely using PCs because the volume of hardware needed has significant money savings, Adobe Premiere and FCPX are not good multiuser single project editing platforms, and Avid has been providing the better software FOR THAT SCENARIO for years. I don't know of any networks running Mac.
The idea that an independent studio making "millions" is somehow above using a Hackintosh is applying an elevated opinion to a mythical company. It's actually the smaller companies that don't have an IT department that can't afford their computers to be down for any length of time. A larger company with IT and in house techs can usually swap out a machine and flash a drive image to restore a workstation relatively easily because they have the resources. Those are the guys that can build and maintain those machines and save their bosses a decent amount of money, keep people on their beloved macOS and not having to worry about a Mac Pro trash can crapping out that needs to go back to Apple.
So yeah, Handbrake can rip DVDs. But it's also a very easy, customizable, and quick conversion software that does what some of us pros need it to do.
In regards to the studios making millions of dollars not running Hackintoshes, many of them aren't running Mac either. If you're pumping out a 3D render farm or running a large multiuser edit facility such as at a TV network or reality show post production, you're not using Macs. You're likely using PCs because the volume of hardware needed has significant money savings, Adobe Premiere and FCPX are not good multiuser single project editing platforms, and Avid has been providing the better software FOR THAT SCENARIO for years. I don't know of any networks running Mac.
The idea that an independent studio making "millions" is somehow above using a Hackintosh is applying an elevated opinion to a mythical company. It's actually the smaller companies that don't have an IT department that can't afford their computers to be down for any length of time. A larger company with IT and in house techs can usually swap out a machine and flash a drive image to restore a workstation relatively easily because they have the resources. Those are the guys that can build and maintain those machines and save their bosses a decent amount of money, keep people on their beloved macOS and not having to worry about a Mac Pro trash can crapping out that needs to go back to Apple.
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I use Handbrake to convert my YouTube videos down to a smaller footprint. I guess I need to go get a job because of that...
Ironically... the Mac Pro is actually the most upgradable Mac today.
No glue... RAM and SSD that are not soldered... GPUs on individual cards... etc.
You might not be able to upgrade it yourself at home... but it's definitely possible.
The problem is... Apple didn't offer any upgraded parts in the last 3 years.
But they could have.
Ah yes...remember when Apple released the 2012 MP (Yes, 2012) which was a spec bumped 2010MP? Didn't Apple actually have NEW on the Apple Store, but then removed the NEW due it to being only a spec bump.
Remember when Phil got up on stage and pre-announced the 2013 Mac Pro at WWDC? It shipped later that year...
Remember today when Phil and Craig spoke to some peeps and pre-announced the next Mac Pro coming in not this year?
Bliss.
Remember when Phil got up on stage and pre-announced the 2013 Mac Pro at WWDC? It shipped later that year...
Remember today when Phil and Craig spoke to some peeps and pre-announced the next Mac Pro coming in not this year?
Bliss.
I use Handbrake to convert my YouTube videos down to a smaller footprint. I guess I need to go get a job because of that...
I covered a 5 day event a couple years back with about 35 hours of footage that I had to edit, share for approval and upload to youtube as well. Being in Canada with terrible upload speeds, Handbrake's conversion worked amazingly well to save me LOT of time uploading needlessly large files. Plus, the final exported files don't take up anywhere near as much space and still retain nearly exact original quality.
I also did some massive home video recordings a couple months ago of about 20 hours of footage from 8mm Hi8 tapes. Handbrake again did a fantastic job of compressing everything from 150gb to 40gb without any 'noticeable' loss of quality.
My 4790k Hackintosh ripped through the conversions with ease.
Then of course I make marketing content for my family's business which involves After Effects. Handbrake is used after that too.
It's amazing how some people think that everyone should be limited to their own perceptions;
No. I do all sorts of work on my Hackintosh. I don't need some forum troll telling me what I'm doing and why.
Preach! haha. Handbrake is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Oh and its free. Quite the opposite of this cylindrical overpriced machine...
No "everybody here" doesn't know that.
Let me dumb it down for you.........
Back in the day, P.T. Barnum sold us Make the Mac the hub of your digital lifestyle.
So a lot of us did. We dumped our physical media into our iTunes library and streamed it to our Audio Visual systems. The iTunes store is a non-starter due to the selection, quality of media, and cost - I am NOT paying those prices for 720p movies. Especially when they don't actually have movies I want to watch. I like the fact that I can get the physical media for next to nothing (example: Greta Garbo 10 DVD boxed set for $7.50; more flim noir boxed sets than you would possibly believe; I can pick up DVDs for only a couple of bucks - hell at my mom's Wal-Mart, every Tues they dump a bunch of Blu-Rays into a bin & unload them at $7.88 each.) AND I will never again have to worry about my iTunes purchases going missing (which has happened in the past).
Yeah, I know that with the release of the ATV 4 that 1080p is now available - I chose not to wait for Apple to get its act together. Currently, I have the following:
1300+ movies, 3,000+ CDs, and 500+ TV shows. Next month, I'll be upgrading my 4TB iTunes library with 4TB drives, so I can get the rest of my TV shows into iTunes. Do you have any concept of how much space that takes up? I literally had two walls of media. Now, I buy, throw it into the Mac Pro, rip it, and put the disc away, so it doesn't get damaged.
(Que the inevitable Why do you need all of that? Answer - because I want it, and the fact that I have been collecting CDs & DVDs since they came out.)
Next software purchase will be MakeMKV and I'll start doing the same with my Blu-Rays; especially now that 50" 4K tvs can be had for $600.
It really is awesome, I've been using it for years for archival purposes. I've used this guide extensively:
https://mattgadient.com/2013/06/12/a-best-settings-guide-for-handbrake-0-9-9/
While encodes do take longer, I'm more concerned about Quality to File Size ratio, and the settings I'm using now are phenomenal.