Who is getting the New Mac Pro

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Anyone here getting a new Mac Pro? If so, what spec are you getting and what will you be using it for? Also what, if any accessaries will you be getting?

Just placed my order but I won't be getting till Feb :(
 
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Caged said:
FCP then? What are you doing for storage?
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Yeh FCP, it just got an update giving 4k support today.

Gonna get a Promise Pegasus2, and fill it with 8 1TB Samung Evos, as primary storage. Will use my current Microserver for most things though and online backups.
 
theheyes said:
Total computing decadence.

I hope you get a return on your investment.
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1-2 projects and it's paid of :). So if it arrives in feb as stated, it will be paid of along with my new storage system by May easily . Then it is making me profit from then on. The time it will save me over my current iMac will make it worth the cost.
 
Well I am finding currently, 40GB is about 2 minutes of 4k footage. So 8TB in my primary storage gives me 200 minutes of runtime, which is more than enough as I do commercials. Il need about 4-6 TB for the RAW footage and the rest for proxy footage,renders etc.


Going all-flash for fast access. Time is money when you are a one man operation currently.


EDIT: Copied my numbers down wrong from my breakdown of time. Updated.
 
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theheyes said:
Yeah, I mean it genuinely if you're trying to make a living off it. Good luck to you.

For me though, it would be too much of a risk given the expense. Plus the unproven form factor is a minor cause for concern.
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Well I am already getting constant income using my 2012 iMac, so I know the money will be there to pay it off. It will just do an equivalent project in about half the time if not less, so there isn't any question about it.

The new form factor doesn't concern me, as I trust Apples engineering department.
 
Roughneck said:
Are you getting some discount on that, as I just looked at the Apple site and it came to over 8k
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Its £6,5k with Tax but edu discount as I am also still a full time student.

The reason the new Mac pro is cylindrical is actually for design rather than aesthetics. It eliminates dead air spaces that you find in square/rectangle shaped boxes.
 
M3G4UK said:
THIS! 1000x THIS!! The new mac pro was a terrible move by Apple. The editing rig at my old job was an old style Mac Pro with BlackMagic HDMI card and a Matrox MX02 system. Perfect. One cable to a rackmount breakout box.

We then moved to an iMac, using the same thunderbolt used in the mac pro. BlackMagic card was rendered useless, Matrox MX02 now needed an extra power supply and loads of expensive cables for a thunderbolt to PCIe adaptor. Ridiculous. Using Thunderbolt added a whole new bag of hurt, things not working as they should etc.
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You could also argue it's peripheral makers that need to move forward with the times.

And finally ! It's arrived !
 
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