Making the move to Mac

lamboman said:
1) Upgradable officially, RAM only. Unofficially, basically everything apart from the graphics cards (so that's CPUs, RAM, SSD). The latter two are easy to do.
2) We'll likely see a 5K monitor from Apple once official support arrives for such a resolution (DisplayPort), however right now that doesn't exist (and the 5K iMac is the only 5K display you can get).
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OK, How far off do you think that new apple monitor is? also is it then usable with the present Mac Pro? what I'm thinking is getting the Mac Pro now and using my current monitor and then buy the new one when it comes out.

I've got a few things lined up from the start of the year and that's why I want to get settled now and not swap everything in the middle of projects etc.

Fallen God: Mainly going to be used for Lightroom/Photoshop but also Premiere Pro/After Effects just not sure how much of the later 2 and they're the ones that need the power usually.
 
Jase said:
OK, How far off do you think that new apple monitor is? also is it then usable with the present Mac Pro? what I'm thinking is getting the Mac Pro now and using my current monitor and then buy the new one when it comes out.

I've got a few things lined up from the start of the year and that's why I want to get settled now and not swap everything in the middle of projects etc.

Fallen God: Mainly going to be used for Lightroom/Photoshop but also Premiere Pro/After Effects just not sure how much of the later 2 and they're the ones that need the power usually.
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The display will likely be a while off, and when it does arrive it won't be compatible with the current Mac Pro graphics cards. Let alone the iMac being the only machine with such a display, it's quite literally the only way to get a 5K display at the moment. I'd very much focus on whether you really need a Mac Pro, because your choice will almost certainly be either a quad-core iMac or a 6-core plus Mac Pro (at huge additional cost). The iMac lies somewhere between the 4 and 6 core Mac Pros, depending on benchmark. If you're editing 4K video, the choice is even more difficult (as if you're editing on a semi-frequent basis you'll probably want an 8/12-core Mac Pro).
 
Jase said:
OK, How far off do you think that new apple monitor is? also is it then usable with the present Mac Pro? what I'm thinking is getting the Mac Pro now and using my current monitor and then buy the new one when it comes out.

I've got a few things lined up from the start of the year and that's why I want to get settled now and not swap everything in the middle of projects etc.

Fallen God: Mainly going to be used for Lightroom/Photoshop but also Premiere Pro/After Effects just not sure how much of the later 2 and they're the ones that need the power usually.
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DP 1.3 will support 5k/8k and has been a thing for 2months~, looking at thunderbolt 3 it is likely it will use DP 1.3 but not 100%, also not sure when thuderbolt 3 goes into production by intel. All in all I would say it is at least a year away before you will get "retina", but you can power 3x 4k display I believe with the Mac Pro currently.

Power wise the iMac is faster in a single thread, so if an app doesn't run on all threads of the CPU the iMac is actual faster then the Mac Pro, of course once your using all the core Mac Pro wrecks most things. Might need to look up some benchmarks for those Apps and see how they do. The main reason I would recommend the iMac is that it is 5k currently, although I hate the GPU choice given the M290X, given the 980M was just around the corner and just a better all round card, its even faster then the top end M295X.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980M.126692.0.html
 
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I had pretty much decided on the iMac 5K last night but then I spotted something which I'm not sure if it's a concern or not. That something is the colour gamut. Although it has 100% sRGB it only covers 78% Adobe RGB.

How much difference that makes in the real world of photo editing etc I'm not sure. I'm really happy with the MacBook Pro's screen but haven't done a side by side comparison between it and my Dell monitor for colour reproduction.

I don't want to get the iMac only to find out that I need to buy another monitor, if that was the case maybe I am better off getting a Mac Pro.

Any advise would be welcome!
 
I'm not huge into photography but from my understand almost everything is based on sRGB and Adobe RGB is wider but since its rarely used its a bit of loss, I used to work in a professional printing company at some point and they used to calibrate it once a month to 100% sRGB.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbzXqqeC5vc

From what I've read everything is sRGB so you might as well use sRGB for shooting etc etc. My main concern would be with the iMac is that where close to 20nm GPUs and that really should improve things but I have no idea if Apple care about that.
 
why don't you just get a large monitor and just run it out of your macbook pro. I do that all the time and it works an absolute treat, don't see why you would bother buying another mac. especially when you don't have a job
 
Fallen god said:
I'm not huge into photography but from my understand almost everything is based on sRGB and Adobe RGB is wider but since its rarely used its a bit of loss, I used to work in a professional printing company at some point and they used to calibrate it once a month to 100% sRGB.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbzXqqeC5vc

From what I've read everything is sRGB so you might as well use sRGB for shooting etc etc. My main concern would be with the iMac is that where close to 20nm GPUs and that really should improve things but I have no idea if Apple care about that.
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Cheers, I think there's arguments for either way but it's true most things are sRGB so I guess it does make things easier keeping the workflow that way.
 
ikillbears said:
why don't you just get a large monitor and just run it out of your macbook pro. I do that all the time and it works an absolute treat, don't see why you would bother buying another mac. especially when you don't have a job
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I ordered an adaptor today so I can use the Macbook with my current monitor for a trial. I've always had a PC and Laptop and found it to be ideal as I always had a backup if something went wrong or I could set up a process on one and continue to work with the other etc. That and I have my mind set on one now so that's not going to change :)
 
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