This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Any tea leaf readers want to hazard a guess?

Friday, May 13, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Any tea leaf readers want to hazard a guess?

Mike,

I've been disappointed in the cylinder (trashcan) mac Pros. The price to performance ratio has seemed way off, and I've had to take 40% of ours back to the store for new motherboards/graphics cards. (at least that was under warranty and free).

I'm not convinced that Apple is going to do much with them though. I'm worried that they will go the way of the Xserve. (rest in peace)

If I were in your current position, I'd wait until Apple's developer conference keynote (June 13) and see if they announce anything then. Maybe they will update the CPUs?

Based on that info, I'd weigh the price to performance of the MacPro with a maxxed out iMac.

You'll be able to run your thunderbolt items off of an iMac, and will have saved a bunch of money. You'll have only 2 thunderbolt ports instead of 6, but you only have those two items now anyways ;).

If you wanted more power than you could get from the iMac - I'd then consider looking at a Windows setup.

However, I think for Avid use the iMac works pretty well.

That's my opinion on a rainy Friday afternoon.

Jeff

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On May 13, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Michael Rothenberg m.rothenberg@rcn.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Although I have a newer Macbook Pro, my main system is a mid 2010 Mac Pro tower w/ 17 GB of RAM. At the end of last year I needed to buy some gear for tax reasons - and decided to buy Thunderbolt peripherals (Dell 4K monitors and 32TB Areca RAID) but not the trash can Mac Pro, reasoning that it was nearly 3 years old and it would be better to wait for an update in 2016.

I know objectively there's no way to know what Apple will do, but does anyone have a feel for the future or is in a similar situation? What do you think the chances are that they will release a new Mac Pro this year?

Mike Rothenberg