This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] New Mac Pro

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] New Mac Pro

How times change this very group was massively excited by DNA boxes only a decade or so ago....

Course back then compression was also a dirty word.

Mike

On 12 Jun, 2013, at 12:23 AM, "Rupert Watson" <rupert@root6.com> wrote:

> The words expansion chassis are one of the signs of the impending apocalypse.
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> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Sengpiehl
> Sent: 10 June 2013 20:42
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> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] New Mac Pro
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> Pci extender! "Expansion Chassis" is a dirty word!
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> JDS
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> On Jun 10, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@ContactBen.com <mailto:Ben%40ContactBen.com> > wrote:
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> >
> > 1- Expansion Chassis solution?
> > http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresschassis.html
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> > 2-
> > No new MacBook Pro? :(
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> > On Jun 10, 2013, at 12:04 PM, electropura212 wrote:
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> > > Did you see the side-by-side with the current Mac Pro? This sucker is
> > > TINY...if anything you would be stacking the new Mac Pro on top of your
> > > expansion chassis or drive array....or maybe even have it on your desk (no
> > > word about fans). I don't think you'll be stacking anything on it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > On Monday, June 10, 2013, Jeff Kreines @ Kinetta wrote:
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> > >> **
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> What about the AMD GPUs vs. nVidia? Does AMD do Cuda? Will Resolve run on
> > >> AMD? This might be an incredibly dumb move. Also, a stackable design would
> > >> have been more elegant, so one could put a PCI chassis below the cylinder.
> > >> Cylinders aren't the best shape for dealing with rectangular things like
> > >> drives and PCI cards.
> > >>
> > >> Cuteness trumps functionality.
> > >>
> > >> Jeff Kreines
> > >> Kinetta
> > >> jeff@kinetta.com <mailto:jeff%40kinetta.com> <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jeff%40kinetta.com');>
> > >> kinetta.com
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> > >> On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Jeff Sengpiehl <jeff@chainsawedit.com <mailto:jeff%40chainsawedit.com> <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jeff%40chainsawedit.com');>>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Fast but no slots. It's the blue and white g3 all over again.
> > >>>
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