Re: Another hardware question (was: Re: Apple laptops)
Re: Another hardware question (was: Re: Apple laptops)
- Subject: Re: Another hardware question (was: Re: Apple laptops)
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:59:21 +0100
On 16 Jul 2015, at 20:39, John Lund <email@hidden> wrote:
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> But I really don’t know much about how the newer Mac Pros are working out for people, so would love to hear some reports. I assume I’ll have to load it with RAM, SSD size, etc. at purchase, as Apple seems to want to discourage cracking the case later. Are Thunderbolt externals an improvement over stuffing multiple big drives inside my desktop machine? Any “gotchas” adapting current peripherals - e.g., I’d like to continue using my NEC PA241W. I guess I’d really like some sense of whether the performance increase will feel like it justifies all the trouble & $$ of the upgrade (yes, I’m checking places like BareFeats.com, but I’m interested in feedback from people working in imaging, specifically).
Opening them up and fitting RAM is really easy — so don’t waste your money having it installed at purchase.
Thunderbolt works well but the cables are plugs are too easy to move both up/down and left/right in the sockets so I don’t think they are very suitable for some work environments where you need to plug and unplug frequently or in areas where it is likely to get knocked.
You may be able to run the PA241W on a Thunderbolt adaptor, but one gotcha is that larger panels like the PA271W have to use a DisplayPort cable to run at full resolution. They will run on an adaptor but only at reduced resolution.
The ventilation is a great bit of product design but the Mac Pros will get really hot if you stress the processors and graphics cards at the same time. I’ve heard a couple of reports of meltdowns.
Haven’t run into any imaging specific issues with the new Mac Pros — nothing that can’t be solved by purchasing expensive Apple adaptors (like FireWire 800) anyhow ;-)
Biggest imaging problem for us at the moment is with the Mac OS.
Networked machines cannot “see" files on Mac servers without massive delays and searches of remote volumes just cannot be trusted — really annoying in repro work where images and layouts are being edited simultaneously.
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Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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