Would you buy another Mac Pro?

[twoodcc]

yes i will buy one.....when i have the money. so it'll be when they have over 10-cores

 

[joegomolski]

I'm planning to buy the next edition of the MacPro, provided there is a design change. To a smaller form factor.

 

[Alpinism]

I also do After Effects CS3 and Motion 3 and the other 2 animators do Maya. All are far more GPU intensive that Photoshop, lightroom, Nikon NX or Aperture.

If I were you, and I worried much about having greatest and latest GPU and I only do imagine processing like Adobe Lighroom, PS CS3, I would switch to a workstation PC with XP pro. Those software are not MAC specific/exclusive.

I'm really glad that you are not having problems with your G5. Seriously. But, how is what you described not your workflow?
Regardless (semantics aside), video editing tends to be more CPU intensive and batch photo editing tends to be more GPU intensive. This is why I am NOT complaining about my video editing. I just want the option to put a better GPU in my Mac Pro. This is a MUST for me. How many 1st Gen Mac Pro owners got tired of waiting and just said "**** it," eBayed their old Mac Pro, and bought a new one in order to solve this problem? This is not a road I want to go down.
I guess some people buy a new car every year, and some people (like me) like to buy a new car and then enjoy it for 2-3 years before trading it in.



I would bet most people know next to nothing about 64-bit EFI implementations. You don't know what I do or what my degrees are in. Don't make assumptions of what people know or don't know.
This problem is not a question of difficulty or technical challenges. The 1st Gen Mac Pros are fully capable of supporting the 8800GT, given the right supporting drivers/firmware. Apple obviously invested the software engineers' man-hours into developing this for the Early '08 Mac Pros and didn't do the same for the previous generation Mac Pros. Why? Well as you say we have "no idea what decisions were made." But it doesn't take a software engineer to figure out that it's all about forcing the new Mac Pros down the throats of 1st Gen owners. And from some of the comments I've seen on this thread, it's working.

 

[MacFanBoyIIe]

Current poll stats and closing remarks

If I were you, and I worried much about having greatest and latest GPU and I only do imagine processing like Adobe Lighroom, PS CS3, I would switch to a workstation PC with XP pro. Those software are not MAC specific/exclusive.

Thanks. That's what I started out saying on the very first post on this thread. Full circle in 3 pages of posts...

EDIT: Poll Update (as of the time of this post)
Roughly 63% of Mac Pro owners surveyed say they would DEFINITELY buy another one someday.
Roughly 23% of Mac Pro owners surveyed say they MIGHT buy another one someday.
Roughly 14% of Mac Pro owners surveyed say they would NEVER buy another Mac Pro.

That's about what I expected. Feel free to keep voting.
We'll just have to see if we get the GPU update soon.

So, unless anyone has anything useful to add, I'm for closing this thread.
I'll be around.

 

[Alpinism]

If they make Final Cut Studio in PC version and it operates as solidly on a PC workstation , I would switch in a heart beat.

BTW, a workstation caliber PC running Win XP Pro is far more solid than a consumer level PC. Too bad, Adobe Premiere Pro Suite is just miles lacking of Final Cut Studio, except for After Effects CS3 that makes Apple Motion 3 look like a coloring book.