Posts by filmjr

What are the chances we'll see an announcement of the new Mac Pro at NAB, like they did with FCPX in 2010?   Surely the largest remaining target audience of a true pro machine are filmmakers, videographers, compositers and...

Ordered the 27" iMac tonight. Now ordering 32GB RAM kit from OWC. Will use it for my bread-and-butter HD editing, hopefully discovering a fun, efficient new workflow with FCPX/Motion/Compressor.   My old warhorse Q2000 Wintel...

Thanks, Marvin. I'd checked out some of those links before, but the rest of the info you posted really helps clarify my decision. FWIW, my all-time-best-ever computer was my Powerbook G4 Titanium, with which I finished film school...

One thing I'm definitely purchasing to accompany either Mac I choose is one of the Thunderbolt RAID arrays, my ultimate goal to be able use it as a shareable/portable media drive between multiple Macs (home workstation, office...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lemon Bon Bon.  If you really want to come back to the Mac buy a fully loaded iMac 27 incher with 680mx and Fusion Drive.  32 gigs of ram.  You have your Thunderbolt ports as...

After being a Mac loyalist for 10 years, I started building my own Wintel video workstations about 5 years ago for the simple reason that, at the time, I had $1500 and needed to cut AVCHD quickly. I still loved Apple, I just couldn't...

Thanks again for all the responses, folks.   Just to bring my personal discussion back in line with the original thread topic:   It is WICKEDLY frustrating that Apple is so opaque about it's plans. If, for instance, I...

Quote: Originally Posted by hmm    ....   Wow, thanks so much for taking the time to respond in detail.   My current CPU is a Core i7-960 (Nehalem, I think?). I have 24GB of RAM  and a Quadro...

Quote: Originally Posted by hmm  That in itself would require a complete redesign on the imac including a different logic board to accommodate the different cpus. First you'd be limited to quad cores anyway....

I'd bet dimes to a dollar that the Mac Pro is replaced by something like an iMac Pro that features something akin to Xeon processors and accommodates big video/audio processing cards via Thunderbolt.   I just can't see Apple...