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If Apple was to do things like that it would effect their workstation market. Apples about hardware and they are doing really well on the WS front... these new iMacs are designed a bit more for creatives like graphics, web design, photographers (SD card slot) but they do have the power to churn through a DP session easily. For now, the Mac Pros are the real workhorses and the iMacs are still for the creatives.waxman wrote:NO SLOTS
what he saidnewrigel wrote:If Apple was to do things like that it would effect their workstation market. Apples about hardware and they are doing really well on the WS front... these new iMacs are designed a bit more for creatives like graphics, web design, photographers (SD card slot) but they do have the power to churn through a DP session easily. For now, the Mac Pros are the real workhorses and the iMacs are still for the creatives.waxman wrote:NO SLOTS
And for us creative workhorses?newrigel wrote:For now, the Mac Pros are the real workhorses and the iMacs are still for the creatives.
Thanks for all the good feedback. You have me rethinking the whole scenario again, leading to sitting on my current system for awhile yet (certainly the most economical option!). It's obvious that chaining my VI FW drive, my audio FW drive, and Duet (dumbing everything down to 400 anyway) off one FW port (at least my current iMac has two) would certainly not gain me anything speedwise.waxman wrote:This will give the comparisons... http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/s ... TAyNTQwMTk
It's all about buss speed and slots. It you don't need slot's for UAD etc you are good. You can't load up firewire devices on the same buss so it comes down to no Liquid Mix or similar outboard FX.
So the performance value of all internal software plugs and VIs becomes and issue. Personally doing without UAD, LM and the eSATA card is a deal breaker. Even the laptops have access to UAD...
Now it Apple is dumb enough to put a slot or two or add a seperate FW buss we would be in business with a iMac... until then spend the extra grand and get the real deal. imho
Tim, I see that you have the 2.16 core 2 duo chip as well. I was so pleased with its performance in my iMac that I bought a Macbook with the same chip as well. And it still works so well with Tiger that I don't want to mess with it.timriley wrote:I've been thinking about this alot too.. The imac v mac pro debate that is...
I think in my particular situation, with music basically being a hobby these days, that the i-mac is the best option.. Yes it's "only" around £600 ($1000) extra to get the mac pro but if I were to go that route, then there's all the peripherals that i'd want to get to go with it, to make it worthwhile.. Drives, screens, UAD's etc,etc,etc.
I'll be better off getting one of the mid-range imacs, which has everything i'll realistically need for the foreseeable future.. Whatever limitations i face i'll have to deal with... It'll certainly be a significant upgrade over what I have already.. What I already have, of course, I will still have.
Well my Macbook Pro actually has one of the Core Duo chips.. I missed out on the Core 2 Duo chips by a few months.. Still i've been very happy with it's performance too.. I stayed in Tiger for ages also but finally went to Leopard earlier this year.. Im in the SL crew nowTobor wrote:Tim, I see that you have the 2.16 core 2 duo chip as well. I was so pleased with its performance in my iMac that I bought a Macbook with the same chip as well. And it still works so well with Tiger that I don't want to mess with it.
Yeah i've been very happy with my duet though... I'll consider getting an Apogee One for mixing on the imac... Its USB so will free up the Firewire port for something else...Tobor wrote:If only the Duet was FW800 compatible it would be interesting to see what the bus performance bump would be.
Which 27" are you getting- the 3.06 or quad-core? I'm still waiting for an answer as to whether DP can take advantage of all four cores......timriley wrote:Well my Macbook Pro actually has one of the Core Duo chips.. I missed out on the Core 2 Duo chips by a few months.. Still i've been very happy with it's performance too.. I stayed in Tiger for ages also but finally went to Leopard earlier this year.. Im in the SL crew nowTobor wrote:Tim, I see that you have the 2.16 core 2 duo chip as well. I was so pleased with its performance in my iMac that I bought a Macbook with the same chip as well. And it still works so well with Tiger that I don't want to mess with it.
It's the RAM limit more than the processor speed that i'm outgrowing.. My laptop has a 2gb RAM limit and i'm finding that is being stretched more and more...
If i get the 27inch dual core imac i'm eyeing, i'll be practically doubling my processor speed capabilities, certainly doubling my screen real estate, tripling my internal drive storage capacity and (once i add some new RAM) quadrupling my RAM limit... This all sounds very attractive to me!
