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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 07 Sep 2013 22:47 #30878
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Who wants PCI stuff, anyway? Good riddance PCI, I say! And with things like these: Black Magic Multidock: www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicmultidock MOTU HDX-SDI: www.motu.com/video-products/hdx-sdi-thunderbolt UA Apollo: www.uaudio.com/apollo It's easy to keep things tidy in a rack! |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 08 Sep 2013 07:13 #30886
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All those things you linked to have a bigger footprint than the current MacPro. Where the hell am I gonna put a rack in my office? I guess I could go out and buy a new house instead of complaining.
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 08 Sep 2013 11:47 #30898
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Yeah, all needs are different. I always needed some outboard gear as well. And putting things in racks make pretty neat solutions. There are small racks that fit on your desk that don't take up more space than the old Mac Pro.
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 27 Sep 2013 17:26 #31649
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Some new Geekbench scores on a mid-tier 8core configuration.
www.macrumors.com/2013/09/27/apples-new-...ws-up-in-benchmarks/ According to the article, this 8 core machine is on par with the highest-end 2010 and 2012 12core benchmarks. The new 12core is gonna be a beast. |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 27 Sep 2013 19:55 #31662
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Thanks for the link. Over 24000 with 8 cores... yes that 12-core is gonna be a monster
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 01 Oct 2013 19:45 #31869
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Rumor Roundup on 4K/Retina Cinema Displays.
www.macrumors.com/roundup/displays/ IF it's true, I don't see any chance of one of these being cheaper than $1,999 and more likely $2,499. Going back almost a decade to 2004, the 30" ACD premiered for the heavy price of $3,299. |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 04 Oct 2013 19:46 #32066
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I have a question I'd like to table now, since I'm planning on buying a new MacPro on release.
So far we've had 2 processor options presented- 12-core 2.7GHz 8-core 3GHz I know that some applications benefit more from higher clock-speeds and others from more cores. Knowing that it's certainly going to make a lot of difference to max out the GPU (if fiscally possible), which option would more benefit FCPX and Motion? 12 cores at a slower clock-speed or 8-cores at higher? Any thoughts or experiences? |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 05 Oct 2013 15:11 #32091
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12 core will only be ~ 30% faster in transcoding, but likely 2x the price. FCP X and motion should be faster with 8 core for most other instances where usually only a single core is being used. My guess is that it makes way more sense in a $ way to buy the 8 core and if you really need transcoding speed buy two mac pro's.
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 29 Oct 2013 03:02 #33397
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Some thoughts from Larry Jordan on the new MacPro
www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/2431 Also- Apple's performance page: www.apple.com/mac-pro/performance/ If it's not obvious, the performance baseline here is a current-gen Mac Pro 12-core 3.06GHz with 512GB SSD and ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics. 64GB of RAM. |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 29 Oct 2013 03:43 #33399
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Sure is a jump in speed, but it doesn't show a stat for how much faster it is at transcoding say for something like pro res to H264. Closest thing is, export a 16bit tiff which is only 1.5X as fast, I'm inferring from this that the CPU in the new mac pro is %50 faster than the old one, that's quite good.
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 05 Nov 2013 15:52 #33720
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New 6-core MacPro shows up in Geekbench scores.
www.macrumors.com/2013/11/05/6-core-vers...pears-in-benchmarks/ So the only one we haven't seen is the 4-core version. Though the 12-core results were skewed because of the version of Geekbench that was used. |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 06 Nov 2013 01:25 #33737
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Some good detective work by Marco Arment on the full CPU options for the MacPro.
www.marco.org/2013/11/05/geekbench-mac-pro-hexcore I wonder why Apple left those other two CPU option out? |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 06 Nov 2013 16:16 #33776
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Yet more benchmark stuff.
www.primatelabs.com/blog/2013/11/estimat...mac-pro-performance/ The question for all of us here will be how well parallelized are FCPX and Motion. If the performance benefit is minimal between the 8-core and 12-core CPUs, it could be a nice cost savings offset. I may wait a week after the MacPro is released to see some software specific benchmarks from someone like Barefeats. If I had to guess what I'm buying right now, it would be the 8-core, D700, with 32GB of RAM (enough for good performance, but I can upgrade when cheaper 3rd party RAM becomes available later), and a 512GB SSD. |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 06 Nov 2013 17:18 #33782
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Is it me, or can nobody at Apple actually convert the $ to £ correctly... you decide
 store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-pro store.apple.com/uk/buy-mac/mac-pro |
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 06 Nov 2013 19:26 #33789
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Yes I'm thinking similar specs as you DP.
Can't come too quickly though as the old girl has got wind of immanent departure and is now randomly restarting when I'm in FCP X! Anyone else seen this behavior? It's not a kernel panic, the machine (MacPro 2,1) just switches monitors off and reboots. Sean Lander - Editing since 1982 - AVID 1991 - FCP 1999 - FCPX 2011
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 06 Nov 2013 19:34 #33790
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"Anyone else seen this behavior? It's not a kernel panic, the machine (MacPro 2,1) just switches monitors off and reboots."
Yeah... In my case it was the power supply crapping out...  EDIT: Actually, that was another one, the shutting off thing was due to a failed fan which was causing it to overheat... Your log should maybe give you some hints... Can't sleep? Try this: fcpxpert.net ;-)
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 06 Nov 2013 19:37 #33792
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Similar situation with me earlier this year. It turned out to be my ram failing. Hope that helps
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 07 Nov 2013 12:26 #33802
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I've had a look through the logs and can't see anything too alarming, though I'm no Boffin when it comes to this.
At the moment it only happens in FCP X but maybe it is taxing the machine more. So close now it feels like a bad movie script. "Hang in there girl. You can make it!" Sean Lander - Editing since 1982 - AVID 1991 - FCP 1999 - FCPX 2011
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The MacPro Catch-All Thread 07 Nov 2013 12:54 #33803
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Seanus - My MacPro has been doing that since I installed Mavericks. I figured out that it was my NewerTech MaxPower USB Wireless Adapter, which doesn't have a Mavericks update. If I unplug it (the MaxPower Wireless adaptor) the computer restarts, If I try to power the computer down with it plugged in, the computer restarts. So, at the moment (end of the day), I have to unplug the USB Wireless adaptor, let the computer restart by itself, THEN power down without the Wireless adaptor plugged in. Aaarrgghh. fyi (I'm getting cable run to the computer, but that room is not wired yet - i know, i know)
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