MacPro or PC for video/audio and rendering?

[toxic]

if you need it now, just buy now. Sandy Bridge isn't looking to be a huge step in speed, clock-for-clock, so you'd be waiting on 8-core CPUs...but that's a ton of productivity lost just for 2 more cores.

TB is too slow for high-end graphics, PCI cards will probably be available next year, and in the meantime there's still USB 3 and eSATA 6.

note that if you build your workstations, you do the support, too. do you have time to do your own support? that would also be a reason to ditch Apple and go with Dell or HP (better business support).

are you pricing the 12-core MP with Apple parts? because there's no reason to. just get the CPUs and GPU and put in everything else yourself.

 

[blunti]

if you need it now, just buy now. Sandy Bridge isn't looking to be a huge step in speed, clock-for-clock, so you'd be waiting on 8-core CPUs...but that's a ton of productivity lost just for 2 more cores.

TB is too slow for high-end graphics, PCI cards will probably be available next year, and in the meantime there's still USB 3 and eSATA 6.

note that if you build your workstations, you do the support, too. do you have time to do your own support? that would also be a reason to ditch Apple and go with Dell or HP (better business support).

are you pricing the 12-core MP with Apple parts? because there's no reason to. just get the CPUs and GPU and put in everything else yourself.

This is probably a bit too confusing for the poor guy Some people say wait, SB-E will be a HUGE leap, some people say buy 12c 2.93 now, difference won't be noticable.

 

[toxic]

This is probably a bit too confusing for the poor guy Some people say wait, SB-E will be a HUGE leap, some people say buy 12c 2.93 now, difference won't be noticable.

it won't be fast enough to make up for 4 months of lost productivity. that's what it comes down to.