My Hackintosh was better than nothing but after Mac Pro comes I don’t need to see it ever again.
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My Hackintosh was better than nothing but after Mac Pro comes I don’t need to see it ever again.
Under a grand on Amazon. That’s from a third party, so I assume it’s got some markup. I’m not saying your wrong, but if you shop around you can cut that quote in half.
will the iMAC pro be updated finally too?
be curious if any other than the stock base config will ship in 2019.
No...a maxed out 28c/1.5TB DRAM/8TB SSD/2xVEGA DUO/Afterburner is probably going to be around $48,000.00 with another $12K for two of the displays...so closer to $60,000.00...only 3 more days and we’ll see if I’m right.
i doubt it. There's been no mention at all. I wish they would. The chips they need are now available. I don't need the power of a Mac Pro, so a revised iMac Pro would be nice.
I wouldn’t expect that until March...gotta sell some Mac Pros first and get a steady supply of Vega II GPUs for the iMac Pro. Needs another set of two Thunderbolt 3 ports, move up to 512GB max DRAM and up to 8TB SSD as well.
Apple doesn’t do that...plus one has nothing to do with the other.
Yes, you can. And I did over the summer. Switching to windows for this lifelong Mac guy has been a little easier than I had thought. It’s like learning a new language, but it’s not as bad as I thought.
Xeon W3275 and for me 1TB of ram is all I needed so wasn’t necessary for me to shell out an additional $3k for the M variant that Apple is forcing folks to do. The only diff between the W-3275 and the W3275M is the former maxes out at 1TB ram, and the latter at 1.5TB ram.
my specs are same as the top end MP, but I opted for 4 RTX 2080 Ti’s since they are vastly more powerful than the AMD GPU’s Apple is offering. Well, that and the fact that nothing runs without CUDA cores and having 20,000 CUDA cores in my machine has really sped up my workflow.
Total cost for my build was $28k:
W3275 CPU
ROG dominus extreme MB
1TB DDR4-2933 ECC RAM (16 X 64GB)
2TB NVME SSD (3500/MBs) for system
12TB NVME SSD (3000/MBs) for working files.
4 RTX 2080 Ti’s, each with 11GB ram
2 NV Links
Total cost including shipping and case and fans and radiators, and everything else: $28k.
I can tell you right now that the W3275 gets HOT FAST. There’s no way Apples passive air cooling will ever allow GHz boosting. My machine is obviously liquid cooled and so are the four GPU’s so it’s running in high boost even under high workload.
Apples MP is ONLY going to be useful to video editors who use Mac software. No working professional in any other industry will make the mistake of buying this machine for a production environment.
I mean define cheaper. I'm mostly a PC guy myself. Cheaper for me if I were a target customer would be investing in a future 64C HEDT processor come January or going full server gear. I might save a grand or two, but I'd be spending anywhere from $10,000-15,000 in total.
The best thing about the Mac Pro is the FPGA card for their video editing software. It's already very optimizing for macOS, but the FPGA just sweetens the deal. FPGAs for other softwares exist, but I think it being in line with Apple's gear is better.
The best thing about the Mac Pro is the FPGA card for their video editing software. It's already very optimizing for macOS, but the FPGA just sweetens the deal. FPGAs for other softwares exist, but I think it being in line with Apple's gear is better.
i wanna get the imac pro but the specs are from 2017. hard to spend that kind of money on a outdated machine
Apple either needs an iMac Pro spec bump or a price drop as they did with the trash can. Refurbed base iMac Pro is $3500 with 1 year Apple warranty now.
My first Mac was a 1991 IISI. Inflation adjusted, it actually cost about the same as the new Mac Pro today.
Tray chip. No warranty. At about $4,500 it makes sense to go with Intel's current competitor that made mince meat of the Platinum Xeons. Unless you wanted the extra PCIe lanes for the video cards? But even then, I can't imagine relying on them would be great since they have so little use nowadays, but using Resolve will result in that rig screaming from start to end.
If you need the PCIe lanes, Intel makes sense. For everything else, the Epycs run over Xeons. Intel's in a weird limbo right now and the foreseeable future.
What industry other than video are you thinking? 3D? No. ML/AI? No. Cad/cam? No. All for the same reason: no Nvidia CUDA cores. Other than that, no graphic designers or illustrators are going to blow $30-45k When they’ll be fine on a MBP. This is a video only machine for actual pro use.
And you can get a extended warranty now, too.
I don't know what the price of a certain 64C HEDT processor would be come this January, but I can't imagine it being cheaper than $4,000. Granted, when you're twice as fast as your competition on a much, much lower core count processor you've just released last month, it speaks volumes for the speed and efficiency of that monster 64C processor coming out in the new year.
I paid a pretty penny for my first Apple back in the early 90s. Though I think anyone who bought any computer in those days paid a pretty penny!
Mostly agree honestly. I apex’s this machine in late June and yes needed 64 pcie lanes for the GPU throughput. Kicking myself now for not waiting 3 months and going dual EPYC Rome so I could have 128 cores... prolly sell this build and go that route when the RTX 3080 Ti’s come out.
Even the 16" MBP comes with 512GB standard.
There was a /s on his comment.
The display already comes with a stand - no extra cost. If you want the fancy stand and have the money, then you can pay 1000 bucks. So no, I doubt they'll walk back what's essentially a luxury item. Look at the pricing history of Apple's high end machines, back to the 80s. You'll find some close to six grand in 1980s dollars, so enough complaining from people.
I'd hold off on the Rome purchase. Q320 is the next Epyc release and you'll probably be kicking yourself then, too. I'd hold off, too.
I'm on the fence of getting a TR or waiting what mainstream brings us this upcoming summer season. Definitely won't be perusing Intel's offerings for the next 3-4 years.
It's really nice to see the tables turned again. Black Magic's work has also caused Adobe to improve Premier. Read something a while back of the latest Premier releases being more snappy with render times down on the same gear. Go figure.