Well, they did some clever things, but some really dumb ones.
Why not 10 GigE instead of GigE? Why the AMD GPUs instead of nVidia? How much internal storage is possible, is it expandable, and how expensive is it?
The design is actually clever but it really is going to be locked as far as upgradability and expandability goes. Sure, all those faster Thunderbolt2 ports are a good thing, HDMI 1.4 is good, 4K displays are good (but only three?!), USB3 is good. GigE is way too old-school.
The cooling design looks clever enough, the shape is cute if awkward, made in USA is good.
But will Blackmagic have to retool Resolve to run on AMD GPUs? Or will you have to buy a Sonnet expansion chassis with PCI slots to stick a couple of nVidia Titans into? What about driving pro (HD-SDI) monitors like the OLED Sonys? Does one need an expansion chassis for a Blackmagic card?
This means expansion chassis need to deal with: a couple of big, fast GPU cards with nVidia chips, Blackmagic decklink for I/O and monitoring (unless you go with their less-pro Thunderbolt boxes, or the higher end devices with Thunderbolt, including the Teranex) and of course drives and fast (fiber, 10 GigE) networking.
Should outboard expansion devices try to fit in, form-wise, with this cylinder, or should they just be ugly boxes meant to be stuck under a desk?
I am guessing that FCP-X will work well with the AMD GPUs. What about Avid?
And how much will this sucker cost???
So many questions!
Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
kinetta.com
jeff@kinetta.com
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