Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]yep ric On Jun 10, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > Rolling my eyes - the ars folks are hyper-trendy in many respects. Many of > the remarks are made by anti-Apple folks or those who desperately want to > tinker with innards, gamers, the like. Reading Ars casually won't tell you > a lot. > > I think, personally, this is an exciting machine but an expensive one for > those of us with legacy hardware. > > Things they don't like you don't have to worry about: > > upgrading graphics cards - not an issue. The graphics processors in these > machines have plenty of horsepower for anything you're likely to do until > you replace it. That's my take. Even if you do video, move to medium > format with 160 MB backs, you're going to be in good shape > > memory - I'm not sure why there's a complaint about only having four > sockets worth of memory. 32 GB of error-correcting memory should do well, > 64 would be more than enough and 128 GB? OMG - maybe for Bob Adler doing 8 > panel panos with his Arca Swiss or something. > > no internal hard drives - You'll connect from the computer to your Drobo > and other arrays via the Thunderbolt connection. You might need a > Thunderbolt to eSATA or FireWire box or hang your arrays of gigabit > ethernet. > > I think, mostly, it's kids hating Apple because that's "in" this year. > > I'll be in the market for one of these, I think. > > Adam > > On 2013 Jun 10, at 3:36 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > >> There are some really negative comments here: >> >> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/06/at-long-last-apple-announces-new-mac-pro-with-cylindrical-design/?comments=1 >> >> I don't know enough to know if they know what they are talking about or >> not! >> >> Tina > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information