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Any new news on the 2013 Mac Pros? (pg. 6)
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| tehlord |
Ah pissflaps I don't know what to do now.
I may go back to my original plan and get a Mini until next years Pros are announced properly. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
Ah pissflaps I don't know what to do now.
I may go back to my original plan and get a Mini until next years Pros are announced properly. |
My advice would be to either get an Imac now (and I know you don't really like them but they are actually great and far better value than a mini) or hold off and wait until the new Mac Pro comes out.
Even if you're not impressed with the new Mac pro then, you can make a proper decision about getting a used one etc.
The only thing you have to factor is that even though the New Mac Pro will be incredible performance wise, you're going to pay through the nose for it, so better start cutting down on the rent boys and save those pennies. |
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| tehlord |
Boi boi rent boiys :(
You know what's put me off the iMac? This stupid ing sealed unit/retina bull. I don't want to buy into a product line and then have to about changing it in 18 months.
I guess I could get a last year model, but then the next upgrade will only come that bit sooner. I really need that Applecare as it's part of the income now. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| the imac isn't sealed and doesn't have retina dislay. Only one generation of laptops had this. |
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| tehlord |
| The new ones do don't they? Maybe I've been reading too much apple stuff lately. Maybe they're not retina, but I'm sure they're not upgradable. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| the ones that are about to be released 27 yes, smaller one no. Previous generation yes on all. Save some money and just get the previous one 27 with i7. You don't need that sort of resolution and you aren't really getting anything extra. |
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| tehlord |
| I definitely don't need Retina and if the new i7's can be upgraded with RAM and HDD then I might give it a look. I want the 3 year Applecare fo shizzle. |
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| meriter |
off-topic but i didn't want to start a new thread, I was rendering some video on my laptop and the damn thing uses 100% cpu and the temperature goes through the roof, didnt feel like running my laptop at 210˚ for an hour so I found this thing that puts a limit on the cpu usage for any given process
http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.html
the "." is the directory of where you put the executable and for a multicore it's 100% per core, so a quad core would be 400% total. It works really well for rendering video, not so much anything else |
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| trancintaiwan |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
My advice would be to either get an Imac now (and I know you don't really like them but they are actually great and far better value than a mini) or hold off and wait until the new Mac Pro comes out.
Even if you're not impressed with the new Mac pro then, you can make a proper decision about getting a used one etc.
The only thing you have to factor is that even though the New Mac Pro will be incredible performance wise, you're going to pay through the nose for it, so better start cutting down on the rent boys and save those pennies. |
Sorry to butt in on the debate, but I am in a similar predicament as tehlord right now deciding between a current iMac (mid 2011) and a 2012 Mac Mini.
Turns out the Mac Mini's processor outperforms all the 2011 iMac's, 21.5 in or 27 in. The 2.6ghz quad-core i7 in the new mac mini is the same processor used in the new macbook pro retinas.
2.6ghz i7 (2012 mac mini/macbookpro)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...+2.60GHz&id=895
These are the benchmarks for the three 21.5 in. iMacs (mid 2011):
2.5ghz i5
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...+2.50GHz&id=794
2.7ghz i5
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...+2.70GHz&id=805
2.8ghz i7
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...+2.80GHz&id=869
Here's the benchmarks for the 3.4ghz i7 27 in. iMac (mid 2011):
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...40+3.40GHz&id=1
My friend has said that cpubenchmark is quite reliable in terms of gauging performance. While of course I don't know how true that is, if these are indeed accurate, it seems the 2012 mac mini has pretty good value.
I'm personally leaning toward a mini and upgrading the ram/hard drive myself. I do like how it has usb 3.0, thunderbolt, and hdmi. |
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| Raphie |
A new Win8 system with Cubase 6.54 also runs flawless
You can get a core i7 system much higher specced, bigger screens and if you really want: buy an apple keyboard, mighty mouse and polished alluminium system case.
I've been very tempted to Apple too, several times, but after summing up the pro's and con's I decided, at least for me, Win8 remained the better choice.
The 27" thuderbolt display is overpriced compared to other screens in the market
Thunderbolt is nice for the gadgeteer, who can say "look mum, 1 cable". But brings nothing to the table productionwise. Last but not least, buying into old technlogy doesn't make any sense. Ram bandwidth counts, processor capacity counts
Invensting in 8 core C2D's while you can have an i7 system that runs circles around it with 2 finders up its nose, is just burning money.
Whatever you do: look beyond the fanbois , look at CPU capacity, memory bandwidth, sata3, usb3. ivy Bridge chipsets. Anything older than that is obsolete and no longer compellent. |
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| Raphie |
some other thoughts:
- Why is there the need to switch? It seems you're willing to buy an overpriced 4 year old Mac Pro, but on the other hand also a brand new Mac mini, or iMac.
- Why keep bringing Apple Care up as essential? When so cost concious and even more when looking at 2nd hand systems? As one can not add Applecare to 4 year old 2nd hand products. And if you could would you really spend a few hundred GBP on having access to Phone support till the units 8th aniversary?!? come on....
- It's only an OS platform switch, what do you expect to get out of turning to OSX?
- what is it that you can't do right now?
- and is that performance (quite likely) or OS (not very likely) releated?
Seriously I really don't understand your drivers to switch and jumping up and down through product lines and 2nd handers just make you look desperate, in a "i dunno why, but i need to have it too" Apple kind of way
I would really be curious for the rationale of above and what's driving your itch/urge, Seems you're being sucked by the hype and you'll settle with anything as long as it's shiny white/curved alloy
for 1500GBP I would buy the mini with a Dell 30" screen and run 2560 * 1600 |
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| Storyteller |
| Logic. Must. Use. Logic. Now. |
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