Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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