I agree, although some of my friends who are into 2D design and a tad of
AfterEffects will probably running to the store as soon as they can get
their hands on it ;-)
Rob
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On 7-6-2017 13:45, Jonathan Moore wrote:
Now more than ever I think of OS X and Apple hardware as the luxury
end of the consumer PC market. There’s so much about OS X that I
prefer to Windows but I’m also aware that I’m paying an extreme
premium for the experience.
However, It’s been a long time since I’ve considered Apple hardware to
be an optimal choice for creative professionals per se, never mind 3d
professionals. The iMac Pro is a lustful piece of consumer electronics
for sure but it would be a exceptionally odd choice for a 3d professional.
On 7 Jun 2017, at 12:17, Christopher Crouzet
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Something to consider beyond the hardware is the software.
During the years that I've been using MacOS, Apple often shined at
only supporting outdated OpenGL versions in their OS, or poorly
implementing it. To make things worse, they decided to go their own
way with their Metal API without providing any support for Vulkan
(unless I missed something). I don't think many developers are
willing to write their software using the Metal API to boost
rendering performances when the 3D market is fairly small on Mac.
Surely it's a bit cocky from them to be boasting their graphics
marketing when they seem to be hated by graphics developers.
On 7 June 2017 at 17:37, Rob Wuijster <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
One of the first reviews, and it's not really a glowing one:
https://www.slashgear.com/imac-pro-still-doesnt-give-the-one-thing-pros-want-06487652/
<https://www.slashgear.com/imac-pro-still-doesnt-give-the-one-thing-pros-want-06487652/>
Rob
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On 6-6-2017 21:50, Angus Davidson wrote:
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
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*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
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*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]
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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
<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.
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