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To confirm, what kind of professionals are you talking about for whom a new Macbook Pro isn't going to be fast enough?
by blueprint 14y ago
To confirm, what kind of professionals are you talking about for whom a new Macbook Pro isn't going to be fast enough?
- burrokeet 14y agoAudio professionals editing large surround sessions with lots of plugins and lots of tracks for one (plus you need 3-4 or more PCIe slots to stick Pro Tools or similar DSP cards in). These need as much horsepower as you can throw at them. Video professionals doing rendering or compositing, ditto. Not to mention the video cards available, plus being able to throw four full size drives directly on the SATA bus.
- veemjeem 14y agoProbably the ones who have 32gb of memory for their photoshop scratch buffer. There's still quite a few of these types of professionals. You just can't put that much memory in the Macbook Pro. Processor speed is probably less of an issue compared with memory capacity.
- luser001 14y agoYou can never have enough processing power when you're editing and re-rendering videos. Hell, I find lightroom able to use all the CPU I can throw at it when I muck around with ~400 photos that I shoot in a day. I have no doubt that video work can easily use all the CPU/memory you throw at it: imagine rendering a finished video in five different formats and resolutions in the background, while you're editing/tweaking your next project in the background. Remember these are professionals.
- rpedroso 14y agoPeople in the business of video editing are one example. They need/use more RAM and processing power than you can get on any new model of Macbook Pro.
- twog 14y agoI imagine he is talking about sound engineers. Also, he is talking about the Mac Pro (the desktop) not the Macbook Pro, the laptop.
- dasil003 14y agoWhat everyone else said, plus the fans. Man, there are times I actually think about a Mac Pro as a humble Rails developer. If I fully parellelized my test suites it might even be worth the money.
- forrestthewoods 14y agoVideo game audio. He does all of our audio work. Sound effects, voice over, music composition, etc. I asked him what audio he used and his answer was Pro Tools, Digital Performer, and Peak. He's got a super top of the line Mac Pro that's only 2 years old and he's been salivating at the prospect of an upgrade for a long time. He was extra pissed that the new machines don't even have Thunderbolt. He has many hundreds of gigabytes of audio libraries on a variety of external storage devices and just having Thunderbolt would be a pretty decent productivity improvement.
- anigbrowl 14y agoFunnily enough, Peak has just become a dead product as BIAS are out of business: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/06/bias-makers-of-peak-cease-operations-mac-audio-editor-alternatives/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/06/bias-makers-of-peak-ce...
- ktizo 14y agoFX artists for digital cinema. 4K takes nearly half a gig a second uncompressed.
- gallerytungsten 14y agoAll of the above. Audio, video, 3D. Any pro level design. Even print design. Having a Mac Pro with lots of storage and big monitors when you're working on a 300 page book with 300GB of photos is much less annoying than poking along with a laptop. It's not just the speed, it's also the usability. Eg, a comfortable trackball and a nicer keyboard. Sure, you can add those to a laptop, but then you have a kludge.
- jcromartie 14y agoHow is that a kludge? You have to add them to a Mac Pro exactly the same. And you can just stick all of your "desktop" stuff on a USB hub and call it a docking station...
- gallerytungsten 14y agoWith a Mac Pro, you can stick the original keyboard in a closet. With a laptop, you'd have two keyboards, plus a trackball and a trackpad.