Unfortunately Apple has defined pro market to mean , FCP X and a little bit of after effects. Its the only reason I can think of for some of the dumb decisions made in the last two years. Up to and including today.
At least dell gives decent EDU discounts. Going to make the move from apple far less painful for us -- ICT Project Manager Digital Arts Wits School of the Arts [email protected] 011 717 4683 ________________________________ From: Stanley Mpofu Sent: 31 May 2017 03:14 PM To: Collen Rasalanavho; Angus Davidson; Brian Maistry; Shunmuga Pillay; Andrew Sam; Tumishi Madihlaba; Donald Dandawa; Bekir Genc; Arinavho Tshifularo; Simon Mofokeng; Charl Roberts; Mark Allen; James Mokoka; Ernest Maluleke; Shereen Jacobs Subject: Wits ICT Strategy.pptx Colleagues As discussed this morning, Please note the attached strategic direction as well intended service catalogue that will talk to the SLAs between ICT and the University. Please respond with comments and more ideas around what I have proposed for Wits going forward. Many thanks Dr Mpofu Mgobansimbi SB Chief Information Officer (Wits) +27117171662 +27733779947 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> "Lions Don’t Worry About The Opinion Of Sheep" PA Celesse-Ann Brandt-Jacobs Tel : +2711 717 1602 Email : [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau [[email protected]] Sent: 06 June 2017 09:38 PM To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list Subject: RE: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? Heheheh thanks everyone. I’m not so much using powerful pcs anymore but was interested in getting the low down on these “new” contenders. MAC From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Moore Sent: June-06-17 3:36 PM To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google. com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? Apologies for this slight digression into the benefits of 2012-2014 generation Zseries workstations but the final good points about them is that they're built like tanks with top drawer components so they’re less risk than many other second hand purchases. The total cost for my three Zseries workstations was under £2k (GPU’s on top) so that’s a heap of processing power for the budget (96 threads running at 3.1 Ghz). And E5-6670’s are incredibly efficient too so running costs are very favourable for typical Houdini/ICE CPU simulations. Although running 9 GPU’s across three workstations for rendering chews through the juice. So back to the original point of the iMac Pro. There are far better ways to spend your cash! :) On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:21, Jonathan Moore <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: <PastedGraphic-1.tiff> As you can see plenty of PCIe Gen3 x16 and x8’s as long as you go for a dual processes build. Dual E5-2670 based systems won’t best a latest & greatest i7 for GPU rendering but if you pick up a system (or preferably multiple systems) at the right price, you’re get something that performs well both on CPU simulations and on GPU rendering duties. http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400043.pdf On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:05, Ognjen Vukovic <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I thought those z workstations had pretty old mobos. They only had pcie 2 slots. And at 8x or somthing like that which seems quite unremarkable for gpu rendering. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table
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