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In 2009 that price got you...
A computer that is less powerful than a $800 build in 2019. Try using a 2009 computer today...
In 2009 that price got you...
In 2009 that price got you a top of the line Mac Pro with all the bells and whistles, nowadays it gets you the base model with maybe normal size internal drive and some extra RAM. See the difference?
A computer that is less powerful than a $800 build in 2019. Try using a 2009 computer today...
Yeah....and by that logic a $30k computer in 2029 will make the current Mac Pro seem about as powerful as an Apple Watch...not sure I follow your reasoning....is this about time travel?
My point is that back in 2009 I was an Apple customer, and now I just go with Hackintosh. A $3k entry price point for a new Mac Pro would have been painful, but for the sake of re-entering the proper Apple ecosystem and do away with some of the Hackintosh nonsense, it would have been worth it. A $6k entry point, on top of which I have to add another good $1000 at least to get me up to speed with what I could have with a simple mobo/CPU swap right now? No f---ing way!
So what's the benefit? Apple loses my business, and the business of just about most freelancers out there, so that in a couple of years they can justify why they're no longer supporting the pro market?
The only benefit that I can see is a continued commitment to Intel CPU's and possibly some internal investment into companies like Autodesk, Maxon, SideFX, The Foundry and Octane which should put most hackintoshers' mind to ease for at least a few years.
P.S.
If you think that the likes of WETA,D-Neg, Method Studios, Pixar, etc. will rush out and buy thousands of these machines and give Apple the financial incentive to continue to support the "pro" creative market...you're dreaming.
And working in this industry I can tell you that these studios you mentioned WILL buy this thing, including the monitor. Post-houses, design studios (graphic and otherwise), sound designers, music producers, and so on, WILL buy this.
Just wait for a Mac Mini 8 core + eGPU and you will be good. Why go crazy over something like this? The time that I spent tweaking my Hackintosh, I could have saved some and just gotten this...but it wasn't available a year or two ago.
Nice to meet a fellow entertainment industry professional. Will Jay Z buy one, hell yeah (actually, let's be real, he's getting one for free), but the rest of the so-called middle-class pros and freelancers who make up the vast majority of Apple's potential client base? No way!
We can leave it at that, and circle back in a few years when Apple abruptly EOL's the Mac Pro crying that they're not getting enough love from their artistic users!
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For the time being I'm fine thank you, no need to wait for a Mac mini 8-Core (which I think is coming due to the reasons outlined in my previous posts). My hackintosh is working great thankfully, and as I said above, I was cheering Apple when they announced the new Mac Pro since it means a longer life for hackintosh users!!!
I got a 6 core Mini with EGPU, since I upgraded to the BETA "I know we are not to discuss" the EGPU has been preforming much better, in addition I see the apple boot screen threw the eGPU before I just saw black. I am with you on the time spent tweaking my Hackintosh I could have bought @ least 2 base models with the time spent. After 10 months of random crashes I bought a Mac mini and eGPU, few months after that I discovered that for what ever reason I could not get MacOs stable with XMP enabled, turned it off now the Hackntosh is stable. Built a second one with parts that I had bought during the first 10 month it is also stable with XMP off. That 30 sec fix took me untold hours to discover.
10 years ago, even talking about shooting 8K videos would have landed you in a funny farm for a long stretch.