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The Mac Pro has a lot of significance in the professional media industry. Final Cut changed the landscape forever and at $3500 entry level Mac Pro that could co
by imagetic 3y ago
The Mac Pro has a lot of significance in the professional media industry. Final Cut changed the landscape forever and at $3500 entry level Mac Pro that could compete with a $70k AVID station after a $1000 software purchase and an Nvidia card upgrade. Now as a college student I could go work for myself because I could (barely) afford the tools. I still work on a Mac to this day.
But that $3500/entry level and upgrade into your career machine isn't the goal in whatever the heck these are. Aside from maybe like a Hollywood editor who wants to use a mac and gets their way, I have no idea who these are for. I think the goal is to just look really cool in a fancy office.
- goerz 3y ago> Aside from maybe like a Hollywood editor […], I have no idea who these are for. That’s exactly who these are for
- Tanoc 3y agoI've noticed dedicated Mac rendering stations have been getting rarer and rarer in favour of Windows or Linux builds. Small businesses are buying multi-core CPU systems and then upgrading the RAM and GPU every four or five years now instead of buying an entirely new Mac Pro every four to five years. A print shop I went to recently had a Windows machine running 32GB of RAM and a 3060, whereas previously that would've been entirely the domain of a Mac.