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MP 14,8 7 months later have you changed your opinion on the 2023 Mac Pro?
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They built a machine that is a set up for them to justify killing the product
Unfortunately no. The 7.1 was orphaned like the trashcan and iMac Pro with a minor GPU update and nothing else in 5 years. The old Xeons, Radeons and old i/o are deal killers for me. If only Apple had tossed the Threadripper Pros in the 7.1 and stopped with the Nvidia nonsense all would be good for HEDT users. Don't get me wrong the Apple Silicon is brilliant for everything except workstations. Sadly the AS Extreme chip that would have been best of class in HEDT systems was a bridge too far for Apple. I'm waiting on a Studio M3 Ultra announcement at WWDC that will meet my needs.
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I've run Macs since '86 Owned plenty of them. I lean toward the Mac Pro always. Tried the Studio Ultra, it's nice but for me too limited. I bought the 2023 Mac Pro at a darn good price so couldn't pass it up. I'm not bothered by graphic cards no update because the Studio did fine and so does this 2023 Mac Pro. Its the fastest using Handbrake I've ever had. DVD at 965+ FPS. Blu Ray at 400. Using WD 850 series NVME 4x4 at write 6000+ and Read 6000+ no raid. Pretty darn good. It's quiet, sleeps with no issues and starts quick. Has 8 thunderbolt ports. I run most everything inside the beast.
If I wasn't developing for AVP that's the route I would be taking. The new 7000 series Threadrippers matched with Nvidia cards are approaching real time rendering. The hardware raytracing and dynamic meshes in Unreal Engine 5.3 are astounding with that hardware. The Studio M3 Ultra will be able to do that, just not as fast as the Threadrippers.
I would thin most did some minimal amount of ram and just bought 3rd party maxing to that amount.
What I think is really interesting is how much of film and tv production is now built entirely on SteamVR, Vive Trackers, and Unreal.
You have LED screen cycloramas displaying live 3D footage from the set in Unreal, keyed to the tracked cameras, whose position, aprerture and focus are inputs to Unreal, to the backdrop in realtime.
And Apple is effectively locked out of all of that.
Right but even then, maybe 1-2% ?
Most 2019’s I’ve seen in the wild are running 48-192 range. I’ve got 384 in mine. I can’t recall ever seeing a 768 let alone 1.5TB
Agreed. I can't hazard a guess, but I think a small percentage. Over time, if some of the bigger capacity chips get cheap enough, I can see more people doing it though. But again, probably not to big a percentage.