New Mac Pro

[macmusic9]

Actually during the keynote, they did say they were rack mountable and showed a tower of them stacked like servers. Don't know if that meant there will be a server version or this one is rack mountable. Waiting for the replay of the keynote to show up on apple's site because I had it playing in the background while I was doing real work

[LightWing]

Originally Posted by JFreak

They announced that Avid supports the new Mac Pro and mentioned the new box supports a HDX6 -- wow

I suspect that a new FULLY BLOWN Mac Pro will run close to $20K. Maybe higher if much the components are Chinese made and the trade war escalates which it probably will.

YIKES!

Question is WHERE they will manufacture it.

[LightWing]

Originally Posted by JFreak

the apple.com spec page "shows" proprietary connectors so the adapter hell continues?

And you expected something different from Apple?

[ProtoolsLover]

Apple says that Logic runs 5 times faster on the base 8 core than the most recent trash an 12 core.

I have to imagine that with a machine this powerful, why would anyone need HDX for processing?

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by ProtoolsLover

Apple says that Logic runs 5 times faster on the base 8 core than the most recent trash an 12 core.

I have to imagine that with a machine this powerful, why would anyone need HDX for processing?

Because it's *not* a simple race between the power of a CPU and a DSP. Some folks need HDX for large IO expansion and some folks want deterministic/low-latency monitoring behavior though plugins.

Being able to run 5.1x more guitar amp sim plugins tells you nothing useful about the minimal buffer size and latency possible for a tracking workload, I sure hope it's low. But who knows... Apple did not provide details of IO buffer size for those claims, but I expect it to be the largest supported.

[YYR123]

Finally here for all the Movie Studios with unlimited budgets

I might get one used in 15years just to play around with it.

[BScout]

Originally Posted by macmusic9

Actually during the keynote, they did say they were rack mountable and showed a tower of them stacked like servers. Don't know if that meant there will be a server version or this one is rack mountable. Waiting for the replay of the keynote to show up on apple's site because I had it playing in the background while I was doing real work

[ProtoolsLover]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Because it's *not* a simple race between the power of a CPU and a DSP. Some folks need HDX for large IO expansion and some folks want deterministic/low-latency monitoring behavior though plugins.

Being able to run 5.1x more guitar amp sim plugins tells you nothing useful about the minimal buffer size and latency possible for a tracking workload, I sure hope it's low. But who knows... Apple did not provide details of IO buffer size for those claims, but I expect it to be the largest supported.

Come on man, you are always super negative. We all get it’s not Apples to Oranges, we all get in this day and age there are many variables that have to be considered “is it worth it or not”?

Is this overkill for what most of us want to do? Could be. That being said, depends on where the “real world, audio/VI” performance actually lies vs costly systems like HDX, Waves UAD Hardware, which by implied apparent performance abilities either needs an immediate to UAD 20, not 2.

All I’m saying is let’s not be so quick to judge. Being a user for over 15 years, coming from an HD6, that back in the day people said computers it will be a very long time before computers could out perform it, then it was HD Native can’t out perform TDM, and recently HD Native can’t our perform HDX. I’m not taking one side or the other, but history has proven that most of us so called “knowledgeable” have proven to be clueless.

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by YYR123

Finally here for all the Movie Studios with unlimited budgets

I might get one used in 15years just to play around with it.

[clivvy]

lol!