cy_starkman

wow, if i stayed in 3d animation i would probably be looking at this with some interest right now.

as it turned out, i went into managing things instead which means i need a decent screen and portability. MBP 16” for me.

I do projection mapping and some video editing, but as a hobby and honestly i can’t imagine this would really help in either case.. but it is fun to imagine i own 10 4k projectors and want to drive them all on one computer.

not that anyone would pay a mapper enough to afford this beast.

godofbiscuits said:

A field-programmable gate array is literally that: field programmable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array?wprov=sfti1

Customers should be able to push custom firmware down to the hardware on the card to do different tasks of the same class of tasks, like processing Red RAW video instead of ProRes.  Or perhaps other new types of things.  Hopefully Apple will release tools and SDK sooner rather than later, tho probably not til WWDC in June. 

the article says FPGA and then ASIC, which is it? because yeah, like you say, if it is FPGA then why wouldn’t it be super useful for all manner of industries.

Design a reconfigure and it becomes an image analyser or something designed for massive database searches.

slurpy said:

marcia funebre said:

Finally a new professional workstation. Looking forward to that. About the screen I have to say that is the dumbest thing in the universe. Only 32" at 6k? Way too small! With 6k I'd expect 55" or more. Otherwise you'll need a microscope to work!

This is one of the stupidest posts I've ever read. You DO realize this is NOT a TV, right? And that viewing distance is MUCH different than a TV? I don't know a single professional that works with a 55" monitor. Which is why 55" screens are called TVs, not MONITORS. You really want to work with a 55"+ display inches away from your face?

Some of these posts here just absolutely blow my mind. So much ignorance mixed with so much confidence. 

so nasty - and yet so equally stupid.

inches from your face LOL

screen size is what separates monitors from the TV? Bahahaha

professionals use what they need. a photographer might very well appreciate being able to see actual pixels more clearly.

a video editor might value being able to see a HD 100% window in something larger a than 10” teeny section of screen.

32” barely meets the minimum recommended for 4k and above using the industry standard angular resolution calculations, at standard desktop working distances.

Apple is using its extra resolution to make for smooth fonts and its vector graphic Ui, not for usable pixels.

go read some science before being an uneducated asshole to people.

that said, ol mate and his 55” screen is going to really struggle to use it because he will be moving his head so much and unless he has mega bucks, then he will end up with a TV.

my extensive research has settled on 40-43” displays as the absolute “non head moving” sweet spot for 4k-5k with any higher resolutions again only useful for font smoothing and reduced eyestrain. not that you will find many if any of monitor quality.

by the way you rude person. the difference between the tv and the monitor is port types, and calibration of colour and light even-ness across the display. not how big it is.

i hope apple rips the rug from qualcomm

look at them crowing and they have not done a thing except extort.

one step more separate from the billions they made off of advertising illegal activities, spam, scams, malware, violence, hate and sexualised child targeted content; while using that money to demonetise whole industries, destroying jobs and value en masse globally; and then use a free drip of thieved content and average aggregated products made to replace those industries to addict more than a billion people worldwide to willingly allow their every move and communication to be harvested and sold to the highest bidder from the same unscrupulous advertisers who still peddle scams, spam and malware.

exact contribution to the betterment of humanity? couple of hobby companies that have resulted in a hand sonar for changing songs on one phone.

those two are literally the worst scumbags on earth, actually they were trained by the worst scumbag on earth, eric schmidt.

they should have every cent stripped from them and given to charities that help abused children, and victims of hate crimes, scams and frauds.