Or you could have just bought,
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HAHA
but it is still bit of a gap tho, lol
Or you could have just bought,
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My experience with Avid and getting system approval is this. Either wait forever or just bite the bullet...I'm just waiting for Avid to finish testing these new machines and update their list of qualified systems for Media Composer 5 so I can make up my mind about which one to buy.
My experience with Avid and getting system approval is this. Either wait forever or just bite the bullet.
We've been 3 out of 4 with the bite the bullet
Just dont expect major support if your running an un-qualified system.
But honestly, they are all overkill for Media Composer and Protools.
You maybe right to some folks out there but I work for a corporation that doesnt do "Hackintosh" or "FrankenStations".Apple is bending all you people over a barrel for this thing. So overpriced.
If we need routers, server and frameworks, the IT deals with HP and Cisco.
Im in the Motion/3D/NLE/DAW part. So I need a proven system....and the winner is...
I have a 2 year old Boxx 8400s loaded with everything for Maya and Renderman. I have tested AE CS5 (running Windows 7).For your Motion (not the apple software)/3D/NLE/DAW, HP makes the equally very nice Z800 workstation, but when you finish adding all the components to match a Mac Pro, the price is going to be even higher than the Mac. And of course you can't run apple programs on it.
64 bit is default for the 2010, I was under the impression that that was also the case for the 2009 Mac Pro.
Can you guys tell me if the 2009 Mac Pro 8-core which I have boot up with 64 bit on start up.?
Or do I have to press 6 and 4 at start up, thanks.
Hey thanks for that. We havent fully decided on bringing all licenses (maya and rman) to mac side but with the future who knows...Also do this: Go to the "System Preference" on your hard drive location or Applications / System Preference and press command + i, Get info. If you see the "Open in 32-bit mode" unchecked then you are in 64 bits...
Apple is bending all you people over a barrel for this thing. So overpriced.
You're not very smart to even think Apple or any company would build computers in the US. An already overpriced machine times 10 at least? No thanks.
love to see the made in usa tag. not the silly, designed in california. assembled in china.
...There isn't anything else in Mac land that could even remotely take advantage of that CPU power. And it certainly doesn't "make Safari snappier".
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[...] I was looking forward to buy a still in a box discounted 2009-Mac Pro with two 2.66Ghz or 2.99Ghz Xeon "Nahalem" processors but none of the Apple authorized resellers, or the Apple store for that matter, carry them.
As for the new 12 and 24 cores Mac Pros the performance is huge but so is the 2010 price and I blame Intel for this. In 2008 the performance on a $2800 Mac Pro was 75% from the top 3.2. Today for $2500 - $2900 I will downgrade my current 8 core even with the 4 core 3.2 GHz option, at least rendering. But why on earth do I want a multicore machine if not for Maya rendering.
A Dell T3500 is $1,199 with 2.8GHz quad Xeon, 3GB RAM, 320GB HD, cheap 2D card and 3 year warranty. You can add a 5770 and 1TB drive for less than $300 if you wanted via 3rd party. Same thing is £1,385 in the UK inc. VAT.
The huge price differences are only for single processor systems, but my point was to highlight their being little need to compare consumer orientated Core i7 systems to make a point when a workstation can be used as a comparison.
64GB - I can remember using computers with 64KB. That's one millionth of a Mac ProI want one
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Games don't take advantage of multi-core machines. At least four of those cores would be busy doing... nothing. And then you only have an average graphics card in that machine. And then you would still have an operating system on the Mac for which still nobody except Valve writes games.
And when you're not using this rig to play games, the valid question is there what you need it for. Photoshop? Final Cut? Logic Studio? There isn't anything else in Mac land that could even remotely take advantage of that CPU power. And it certainly doesn't "make Safari snappier".
To really unleash the potential of that machine, the first thing you need to do is install a different operating system.
But at least you can say that you have a noisy workstation that did cost a lot. Guess why at the end of the day I decided to sell my Mac Pro and went with a 27" iMac instead - it's a MUCH better deal.
Not many people game while running HandBrake. I've left Folding@Home on in the background on quite a few occasions as well. Not that it was intentional.Folding@Home will take advantage of this machine and why does no one mention MULTI-TASKING maybe each app is only using one core but you can have many apps running at the same time.
And we just rolled out 23 new Dell T3500s at work and it was sad how they benched so poorly but it's not my machine so I'm not going to worry about it.
That and the awful windows operating system.
You're not very smart to even think Apple or any company would build computers in the US. An already overpriced machine times 10 at least? No thanks.