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Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 1:49 am
by BKK-OZ
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:52 am
by Phil O
I have two areas that I work. My "recording" studio is only for tracking. The control room is too small for mixing so that's done in another space (what one of my client's calls the mixing lab), so I have two set-ups. The older of my two Mac Pros is in the tracking area and it's getting to the point where there are compatibility issues. I think I've got about a year left with this set up. Hopefully by then we'll see where this "coffee can" stands. This could be the future of desktop towers or it could be Apple's Edsel. Time will tell. I ain't jumping in just yet.
Phil
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:01 am
by BKK-OZ
In addition to DP, I also do 3d animation/graphics. While my old mac pro is doing fine with DP, I have been struggling with the graphics side of things. Unless there are huge problems reported, I think I am in for a new MP.
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:35 am
by twistedtom
3D animation takes for ever to render, I am in a wait and see mode myself.
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:03 am
by HCMarkus
This one is coming up for auction at a bargain price:
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/25/jon ... y-auction/
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:59 pm
by billf
Not me, for a while at least. There are just too many unknowns with the new model, and I'm at the point where I need reliability over potential. So I opted to get the last tower model Mac Pro and will live with that the foreseeable future.
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:14 pm
by MIDI Life Crisis
I'm thinking about it but i won't be doing so unless this machine bites the dust. Right now it is screaming fast. It just loves Mavericks. Me too!
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:25 pm
by twistedtom
I am doing fine for now, but some day after a few upgrades maybe. We all know what went down with the first Mac Pro tower.
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:29 pm
by BKK-OZ
Ha!
Makes me wonder if you can spray-paint the outside of the new MP safely.
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:47 pm
by mhschmieder
If I was rich I'd be tempted by the one-off "Custom Red" one that was announced this week.
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:53 pm
by Michael Canavan
They need to release a clear case "Borg" model!
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:48 am
by twistedtom
Do they make Thunderbolt interface cabinets for holding PCIe cards like the MOTU PCI-424 so that you cards will work with the new Mac Pro?
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:50 am
by twistedtom
How about a red one that is painted like a Coke can?
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:59 am
by BKK-OZ
I think I am gonna buy one.
Still on a 2.66 quad-core here, fine for DP, but my animation taxes this thing too much, I need to see some benchmark comparisons, but I reckon it will save me mucho time.
Re: Anyone thinking of getting one of the new coffee cans?
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:41 am
by mikehalloran
BKK-OZ wrote:I think I am gonna buy one.
Still on a 2.66 quad-core here, fine for DP, but my animation taxes this thing too much, I need to see some benchmark comparisons, but I reckon it will save me mucho time.
Perhaps, maybe - you think? Short of hacking the NSA supercomputers...
http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/performance/
Holy cow!
OK... There is absolutely no way in hell I can justify one for my needs. I am pretty confident that whatever it costs plus a nice monitor and a 4 bay TB-2 JBOD rack with SSDs will still come in under what I paid for my Mac+ system in 1986 (I may have to adjust for inflation).
I probably will come to my senses since a newer iMac i7 w/ TB and a TB JBOD rack will do what I need - as will a late model Mac Pro. Even my current system works now that I have Time Machine running on two 3T Time Capsules via Ethernet (my libraries are on an eSATA drive thanks to the OWC mod).
Still... "I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it..."
