New Mac Pro line anytime soon?

[Jason Diamond]

I saw JMR Silver Stor at NAB and I have to say the machines are extremely impressive. Especially the inbuilt 8bay RAID. There's also a 5.25" slot under that for an in-built LTO if need be.

They told me they would not only Hackintosh it for me but that they would support it. After seeing what they had running at their booth I definitely believe them. Check em out, I think it's a good option possibly.

I do not work for the company, was just impressed by what I saw and heard.

Jason

[Mark Kern]

So far I am running a new MacBook pro 2.5ghz i7 with 16 gigs of ram and a 7200rpm thunderbolt seagate portable drive. In premier pro, I can play back And edit 3k r3d native files at half resolution smoothly. I anticipate a huge increase with cs6 since the Adobe mercury engine will support OpenCL on my MacBooks ati chipset. Pretty happy with this setup so far.

[Scott Crawley]

Thank you for sharing Mark... And eroding my resolve just a little bit. :-/

[Mark Kern]

Good point.... I should try it in davinci resolve. ;)

[Bob Gundu]

The only person that has openly said that there is no new mac coming is Shane Ross. In fact he mentioned it again today:

http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/32800


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Re: Is the Mac Pro Dead?
by Shane Ross on Apr 27, 2012 at 7:29:46 pm

Adobe showed of CS 6 on PCs...and iMacs. Autodesk had Smoke running on an iMac in their booth, and in the AJA booth. AJA, Matrox, Blackmagic, MOTU...all have thunderbolt solutions. Touting them over other offerings.

The clues are everywhere. The MacPro is DOA.

Shane
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[Scott Crawley]

Shane is not the first person to say the Pro is DOA, not that I believe any of it.

What's your point Bob?

The only person that has openly said that there is no new mac coming is Shane Ross. In fact he mentioned it again today:

http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/32800


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Re: Is the Mac Pro Dead?
by Shane Ross on Apr 27, 2012 at 7:29:46 pm

Adobe showed of CS 6 on PCs...and iMacs. Autodesk had Smoke running on an iMac in their booth, and in the AJA booth. AJA, Matrox, Blackmagic, MOTU...all have thunderbolt solutions. Touting them over other offerings.

The clues are everywhere. The MacPro is DOA.

Shane
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[Jeff Whitehurst]

Anyone care to comment on this video discussing the viability of some sort of modular MacPro replacement? Specifically, the limitations of Thunderbolt bandwidth around the 2 min mark?
http://vimeo.com/35122338

[Bob Gundu]

Hey man, I'm gunning for a new mac... but Shane has me worried.... that's all.....

Shane is not the first person to say the Pro is DOA, not that I believe any of it.

What's your point Bob?

[Scott Crawley]

Hey man, I'm gunning for a new mac... but Shane has me worried.... that's all.....

What about Kilgore, and Jeff's link? They make you feel any better?

[Jon Thomasberg]

HP z820 & supermicro dual Xeon e5 solutions are looking like feasible successors these days. A new MacPro would be very welcome of course.

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Since about 2007, I have been using and buying mostly Macs and only use Windows when absolutely necessary. That said,....
I know it is somewhat unrealistic at the moment because of the development costs vs. Linux market penetration, but I would like to see more commercial software on Linux. Adobe CS6, Resolve (($30k, ouch!) -- We know the linux ver is more robust, exactly my point. Kudos for at least making it.), Nuke, and RCXPro on Linux -- yummm! If we had that then other than Apple proprietary stuff, like Prores codecs, you would have the stability of Mac OS X and a similar feel and since the OS X kernel (Darwin) is based on BSD anyways. You can easily add only the packages that you need (purpose built), rather than Windows 7 that runs all sorts of extraneous stuff you don't typically need in a edit,color,vfx workstation that uses system resources unnecessarily....Windows 8: as of now, not really feeling it.
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