Well if it can drive 3 4k displays thats 12x 1080p resolution. At minimum I would expect 6 1080 displays with the 6 TB ports.
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$2999 for entry model: what do you think?
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Well if it can drive 3 4k displays thats 12x 1080p resolution. At minimum I would expect 6 1080 displays with the 6 TB ports.
Too expensive. $2499 was the top end of my budget, though I can scrape more cash together for it if the D300's bench well in games (Some FirePros bench well, others...piss poor). My big question is...wtf are the D300s? I've been researching FirePro GPUs since before the MacPro was announced for work purposes, and I haven't heard anything about the D-Series GPUs.
Most likely rebrands of the current line of Fire Pros.
AMD recently renamed the 7970 as the 280X, and they probably did the same with the current FirePros. At best they're a tiny refresh, but we'll find out soon I think.
You think? I don't know about the quad core Xeon against an i7, but whenever the dual gpus are put into play, it should be a lot faster. Well, or so we can guess, since the "D300" isn't a known graphics card.
Not in GB per dollar, but certainly in total (CPU+gpu) Gflops per dollar.
It sounded like he said 2 displays on TB plus a third on HDMI. Have to watch it again.
I'm also looking for the standalone version of the production video.
Tot. agree!
More of the same, only this time with a fancy video showing the build process WTF was that all about...who cares and who are they fooling..this to me proves once again that Apple is all about showing off and that its form before function...this should be a pro machine, Pro's don't care about how the computer looks, it should perform...point blank
I can't help but have the feeling they are targeting fan boys, hipsters...etc with this computer....look how cool its build, with robots and all...
I'm not impressed....innovation my a**
Single Xeons just seem like a waste to me. The whole point is that they can work in multiple configurations.
I thought it was a decent price compared to a lot of post and comments on the podcasts I listen to guessing the starting point would be around $4,000. So the $3,000 price to me doesn't not seem that high.
Crappy as you can't even order one it seems until December, so we don't even know what a BTO will cost. So they'll be available in February like the iMacs were.
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Funny how Phil had to justify the high pricing...basically he knows its high.
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Funny how Phil had to justify the high pricing...basically he knows its high.
It would be nice if they offered a version with one low end GPU for the guys that only run CPU intensive tasks. I wouldn't use the GPUs much at all.
I'm buying an iMac. At least I won't have to fork up money for a 2nd monitor, since I have 1 already.
If it had ben $3K for hex-core with 512SSD, I would have bit, but those two upgrades will be another $750 minimum I'm sure.
EDIT:
ON THE APPLE STORE:
6 core, $3999. OUCH!!
If it had ben $3K for hex-core with 512SSD, I would have bit, but those two upgrades will be another $750 minimum I'm sure.
EDIT:
ON THE APPLE STORE:
6 core, $3999. OUCH!!
Your kind says the same thing with every Apple product. And you always end up getting one anyway and proclaiming it the best device ever.
Yeah was hoping for 4k displays, but still probably a year away from that.
$3,999 for the 6-core with only 16GB of ram and the D500s.... and still 256GB SSD!
The maxed out Mac Pro will cost around $8,000.
The maxed out Mac Pro will cost around $8,000.
Very disappointed with pricing and confused over the 12Gb unless it uses 3Gb RAM or doesn't take advantage of all 4 slots. I'd expect the 8 core to be $2999. The graphics people can go on about the GPUs all they like, for audio I just need multiple displays (2+) and lots of CPU power. 2 BTO Mac Minis with 2.6Ghz i7s in a rack mount enclosure using either Logic X or Reaper to share COU power between the systems would still be cheaper and equally (or even MORE) powerful for a lot of people and cost roughly the same if not £100s less.
It can also drive a 4K screen off the HDMI 1.4 port so that accounts for 1 of the displays so Thunderbolt likely has a limitation of only 2 additional 4K displays if you use a 4K with that.
It can also drive a 4K screen off the HDMI 1.4 port so that accounts for 1 of the displays so Thunderbolt likely has a limitation of only 2 additional 4K displays if you use a 4K with that.
Can't get 12GB DIMMs
In seriousness, for most usage there is little difference between 2, 3 or 4 channels and even 1 DIMM is barely different for general computing tasks.
$3,999 for the 6-core with only 16GB of ram and the D500s.... and still 256GB SSD!
The maxed out Mac Pro will cost around $8,000.
pretty sure in the past you could configure the old mac pro up to near $20K
$3,999 for the 6-core with only 16GB of ram and the D500s.... and still 256GB SSD!
The maxed out Mac Pro will cost around $8,000.
All I can say is this, I am extremely happy that I upgraded my 2009 Mac Pro in march to a 6 core 3.33 GHz.