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2012 Mac Pro or Should we say Apple Pro!

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08 Mar 2012 01:54 - 08 Mar 2012 01:54 #5493 by Scrubelicious
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BenB wrote: I do a lot of government contracts, most of what I've seen are iMacs. I never said I saw every studio in the country, just that over the past many years I've seen a hell of a lot of them, lots of iMacs.

Out of curiosity which branch of the government and where? They always need recruits.
From what I seen and implemented USA, Asia and EU facility the Mac Pro is the winner.

BenB wrote:
"Not making enough money" IS not selling enough of them, same thing.

True but you can't saturate the market with a server like a iPod right.

RonPriest wrote:
Hey, we need some love too you know! We're professionals too you know... well kind of like! ;)

You are right you are a Pro but I am talking about the high end market. ;)
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08 Mar 2012 04:27 #5495 by BenB
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High end market, a drop in the bucket of the industry as a whole.

I've contracted for local, state, federal, and military facilities.

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08 Mar 2012 09:31 #5514 by dgwvideo
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This is another long thread...but from early on when the posts were discussing Mac Pro's...
Now since I have the major learning curve of FCPX out of the way, My Mac Pro 12 core with SSD's and 48GB plus ATI Radeon 5870HD GPU literally smokes with fcpx...
I use high quality playback, dual monitors, optimized (not proxy) media, all reference waveforms and I have nearly 600 plugins and over 40,000 iTunes songs, etc., etc. It never stutters anymore even with 1080p projects.....So I have no regrets purchasing the newest Mac Pro and wouldn't trade it for anything...(except maybe a 32 core :-)
Creating history....one edit at a time !

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09 Mar 2012 03:04 - 09 Mar 2012 03:05 #5538 by Seanus
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Interesting article about how Steve Jobs initially wanted Apple stores to be focused on the creative professional.

Hopefully this is still in Apple's DNA.
Sean Lander - Editing since 1982 - AVID 1991 - FCP 1999 - FCPX 2011
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10 Mar 2012 04:17 - 10 Mar 2012 12:27 #5571 by Snapdragon
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well radio silence. i'm beginning to think that might be that for a new pro system.

:(
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10 Mar 2012 04:40 #5573 by BenB
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Yep, we get multicam, broadcast output, and Apple publicly says there is a 10 year development plan for FCP X, all because Apple will abandon us. Yeah, right...

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10 Mar 2012 12:24 - 10 Mar 2012 12:25 #5590 by Snapdragon
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I'm talking about a new mac pro, as per the thread title, and the rest of the posts in it.

Sorry if that's confusing.
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15 Mar 2012 02:03 #5762 by Scrubelicious
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Who said a MacBook Pro is good enough for Final Cut Pro X? Well, yeah, there is that...
Looks like it might see its end soon... we know how rumors are going so here you have it.
Apple Insider

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15 Mar 2012 03:24 #5765 by Tom Wolsky
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It's a 15" laptop with a Thuderbolt port. Who says you can't edit on it?

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15 Mar 2012 04:07 #5767 by RonPriest
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I suppose with a thunderbolt RAID attached, the only limitations of concern would be the processor cores and the graphics card capability, right? I mean, it may be able to handle the editing, but can it handle the processing and encoding?

I suppose it's time to learn how to take advantage of other computers processors on the network, but wouldn't that pretty much require your other computers to be connected via Ethernet port, which currently aren't on any of the MacBook Airs.

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15 Mar 2012 14:01 #5773 by Scrubelicious
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On top of that the Thunderbolt in the current MacBook Air's are slower then on any other Apple device.

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15 Mar 2012 14:23 #5774 by Tom Wolsky
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But still way quicker than any FW800 port. Apple doesn't plan in six month cycles. They're not building software like FCP and Morion and Logic and not building platforms that will run them. They have never in their almost 30 year history done that.

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15 Mar 2012 15:08 #5775 by Scrubelicious
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Correct Apple won't build hardware that won't run there Software as you mention Final Cut Pro, Motion and Logic... right but they have in their 30 years just dropped software and services.

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15 Mar 2012 15:14 #5776 by Tom Wolsky
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Indeed. It's a very real possibility that essentially one building in Infinite Loop will disappear with one email from Tim Cook. It could happen but I don't think Apple wants to send that message.

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15 Mar 2012 15:17 #5777 by Scrubelicious
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Why would on building disappear? If they just get reassigned. :woohoo:
This has been going on for years. B)

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15 Mar 2012 17:09 #5780 by verstaerker
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in the german apple store the delivery times for the old Mac Pros start to raise to 3 -4 days
- could be a sign that they stop production of those models, and maybe prepare new ones

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15 Mar 2012 20:10 #5782 by Snapdragon
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I wish they would just tell us.

Articule from today about future of the Mac Pro

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16 Mar 2012 02:25 #5786 by Seanus
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Well usually when Apple goes silent for an extended period of time it means that they are working on something new.

Remember how people were saying that FCP was to be dropped? Turned out they were totally reinventing the thing.

I predict that this is what is happening to the Mac Pro. It's been nearly two years now.
Sean Lander - Editing since 1982 - AVID 1991 - FCP 1999 - FCPX 2011

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21 Mar 2012 02:39 #5964 by Scrubelicious
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verstaerker wrote: in the german apple store the delivery times for the old Mac Pros start to raise to 3 -4 days
- could be a sign that they stop production of those models, and maybe prepare new ones

Grüsse aus Franken! ;)
Well could be. At the moment I am hopping for a good April!

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29 Mar 2012 04:02 - 29 Mar 2012 04:02 #6262 by BenB
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Ivy Bridge Quad-Core Desktop CPUs about to ship the end of April.

www.macrumors.com/2012/03/28/ivy-bridge-...unching-on-april-29/
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