John,
Future qualification issues aside, apples brand new iMac with 27" 5K display makes a compelling argument as an alternative to the MacPro cookie jars.
It'll cost you around $4K all tricked out, but this is where the MacPro starts. From there, you'll need to add the expansion hardware. But that's a given now.
If it can handle 4K media reasonably well, as they say, I think people will begin to warm up to the idea of all-in-one iMacs again.
RT
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On Oct 23, 2014, at 3:00 AM, "'Carmichael, Scott A' sacarmic@indiana.edu [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
We went with the highest end iMacs of the latest model and couldn't be happier. The BM thunderbolt IO has worked great. We are using Thunderbolt > to PCIe chassis for our FC san interfaces. My only regret is not going with SSD drives in the iMacs.
On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:48 PM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I work at an all Mac Production company that is looking to upgrade it's fleet of older MacPro mc 5.5 systems. The quandry is should they go iMac or Tower Mac Pros that they can still obtain. They are seeing faster renders on a iMac that a producer station has. The iMac has 3.4 GHz. processor and our older towers are all 2.66 GHz or less. I feel this is why there is such a discrepancy in render time. I was advised that when getting my 12core 2012 MacPro that going for the top end CPU speed wasn't worth it so I have 2.66 GHz but in my gut I've always felt clock speed is an important factor in Avid renders as it doesn't take advantage of GPUs or multi cores for most rendering tasks. I regret not getting the 3.1 GHz., or whatever the max cpu clock speed was, but it's not a huge problem for my home system.
We are thinking for the upgrade to get iMacs for the edit stations and hang a BM or AJA thunderbolt I/O box and a thunderbolt to fibre adapter for our Unitys. Hurdles will be having to spring for BCC upgrades, I assume our bundled BCC 4's and BCC 5's would qualify for an upgrade, and OS Compatibility with our existing Unity 5 medianets. For our AE stations we are thinking of going with MacPro Towers so we can have the expansion slots for connectivity in the machine room.
Curious how others feel about cpu speed vs. cores when dealing with Avid and also the Tower vs. iMac quandry as it relates to connectivity etc... The trash cans are not in our sights and I don't think they should be but I'd appreciate any and all experience and suggestions.
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