Which new mac pro to get?

[Simon Blackledge]

So which proc's to go for to get 2k hi debayer? :)

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[Noah Kadner]

It's kind of a no-brainer- get the fastest system you can afford with plenty of RAM and fast RAID hard drives. With the RED workflow there's no such thing as too much processing power.

Noah

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

So the 8 core... 2.93 ghz with 32 GBs of ram and the ATI Radeon HD 4870

[Jaime Vallés]

So the 8 core... 2.93 ghz with 32 GBs of ram and the ATI Radeon HD 4870
Ouch! :bye2:

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'm waiting... At least until the next spec bump in a few months. The graphics options on the new systems are a middle finger directed at any serious graphics professional or 3D animation / CAD professional who was looking forward to this upgrade.

$12K for a system... Wow, Jaime, what did you do? :) I spec'd out what I would buy and came up with $6200. Of course, that's with minimum RAM and HDD, as I would supply my own. $300 for a 1TB HDD... puh-leeeeze.

[Jaime Vallés]

I'm waiting... At least until the next spec bump in a few months.
Bear in mind that it took more than a year for this current update. :waaa:


$12K for a system... Wow, Jaime, what did you do? :) I spec'd out what I would buy and came up with $6200. Of course, that's with minimum RAM and HDD, as I would supply my own. $300 for a 1TB HDD... puh-leeeeze.
All I did was max out the ram and select the fastest processor! I didn't even add the other 3 HDDs...

[Curran Giddens]

$12K for a system... Wow, Jaime, what did you do? :)

He added 32GB of Apple RAM. Ha ha ha.... :blink:

[Andrae Palmer]

Hopefully Crucial will have the new memory listed soon. I wish you could order without any memory. Putting a side 6x1gb sticks is a waste. Figure I'll pump it up to at least 16GB when it arrives.

[Mitch Martinez]

Jaime - check into some 3rd party upgrades rather than getting them through mac. there's plenty of reliable products (Crucial RAM sticks and such) that can save you a LOT of money when you're putting your tower together.