[Leica] New Mac Pro later this year

[ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)]

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
> 
> 
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