Re: [Avid-L2] Article: New Mac Pro Won't Be Much Faster For Most Users

That headline is crap. The real news is in the last couple of paragraphs:

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Tony Breuer <tonybreuer@mac.com> forwarded
from an online article:
>
> [The MacPro] makes up for [the 12 core CPU] with insanely powerful
> graphics hardware, which will become more useful in the next few years as
> developers start to take advantage of the thousands of processing units the
> Mac Pro's two graphics cards make available:
> The new Mac Pro is also extremely power-lopsided: it will initially max
> out at 12 cores (almost certainly this exact CPU), which is upper-midrange
> by Xeon standards, but it comes with a ridiculous amount of GPU power. This
> is overkill to just be about future desktop Retina Displays — clearly,
> Apple's pushing for pro and scientific apps to shift more of the heavy
> lifting to OpenCL.
>
GPU is where it's at baby.

> If they succeed, the new Mac Pro will probably crush everything else in
> its price range (and the rest of the Mac lineup).
>
I do hope so. I can't wait to get one...

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Tim McLaughlin
Final Cut, Avid and Premiere Pro Editor
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