Here's a review of the new Mac Pro computer that Apple announced yesterday. Thought some people might be interested.
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It is, if nothing else, interesting. I'm curious to see what pricing on this will be. The form factor for me is welcome addition as it could actually fit on my desk and allow for things like monitors and drives to co-exist with it. I know a few people have voiced concern about how they might fit it into a rock mount environment. Fortunately I don't have to worry about things like that anymore.
What impact, if any, do you see this having on Studio Artist 's performance John?
Well of course until you have one on your desk it's hard to get too specific. With that caveat in mind, I would expect the Studio Artist performance on the machine to really be good.
For someone like me who does a lot of compiling, it should really be useful as well. Studio Artist currently takes a long time to compile on existing machines since the code base is so large, and this should speed that up considerably.
The way the new machine is designed with the vertical central core for heat dissipation seems like a great design. So one fan that blows air up through the unit for cooling. And the memory and storage on the machine is designed to be really fast.
Dual 4K monitors should be nice.
I guess we're all curious about what the pricing will be. Hopefully the smaller form factor will help with that. The old pro towers had a huge amount of metal in them, which is not cheap. And even though in theory you could do things like change the graphics cards in them, the reality was very different (at least for my machines). Lack of compatible cards and problems with drivers. So i don't mind the lack of internal card slots.
I'm guessing that, because of it's concept of external expandability, that the tube itself will stay relatively inexpensive (in the $2K-4K range depending on RAM & # of cores, just as in the past). But since most folks will want expand via external arrays, cards etc through Thunderbolt2 things will begin to get expensive fast.
Putting SA in the mix... I remember how excited I was with the speed increse between my G4 and my G5... things ran 2-8 times faster on the G5. Then when I went for a fast iMac 2 years ago things shot up even more! I expect the new MacPro will be off the charts.
As a user who uses SA almost entirely for animation, I find that speed it important... tho not just because one can render faster... yes that's important when working on large videos with a deadline. But what matters more for me is that speed gives me an almost real time result when testing and designing new presets for my paseq's. On my iMac I can loop-run a paseq or a paint or image op preset... while tweaking settings in the editor...and SA spits out frames quickly enough that it almost feels like video... I can project out (in my mind) the final video look just by looking at the 2 or 3 fps loop-runs that SA is making. SA on a new MacPro should take this advantage to a whole (and I hate this expression) nuther level!
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