New imac faster than macpro...

[D'Animation]

Hi all,

For all those currently reading this on a MacPro (me included...), thought i might share this with you
http://www.macworld.com/article/1439...7vsmacpro.html

If only it had PCIe slots.....
D

[woodsdenis]

Originally Posted by D'Animation

Hi all,

For all those currently reading this on a MacPro (me included...), thought i might share this with you
http://www.macworld.com/article/1439...7vsmacpro.html

If only it had PCIe slots.....
D

and more than 1 Firewire port

and

the ability to have 2 internal sata drives

[D'Animation]

Oh yes all those things - but for about half price its not a bad deal really?!
Point is, just how fast will the next Mac Pro's be....
D

[woodsdenis]

Originally Posted by D'Animation

Oh yes all those things - but for about half price its not a bad deal really?!
Point is, just how fast will the next Mac Pro's be....
D

Have to agree with you , an awesome machine. Its just missing those few things that would make it a great DAW host. To get those you have to double the price and get a MacPro

[SimonN]

For me, about to upgrade my PCI-cards AND buy a new computer, would a Magma and an iMac be the smarter way to go then?
Feels a bit "unpro" to have an iMac as centerpiece in the studio, but hey, there´s a lot of stuff to buy with the money earned, so what the heck..
Advice here?

[John_Toolbox]

Originally Posted by SimonN

For me, about to upgrade my PCI-cards AND buy a new computer, would a Magma and an iMac be the smarter way to go then?
Feels a bit "unpro" to have an iMac as centerpiece in the studio, but hey, there´s a lot of stuff to buy with the money earned, so what the heck..
Advice here?

There's no way to connect a chassis to these, they don't have an expresscard slot like the macbook pro. But for a firewire based audio interface they are awesome.

and more than 1 Firewire port

The older imacs that had more than one firewire port still had all of the ports on the same bus, so these really aren't any different, you just need to daisy chain everything.

and

the ability to have 2 internal sata drives

I went and bought one of these:

http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/12...sure/IF107-081

and have an SSD on the way from newegg. Will post on the LE section here when I get it running.

[hummerZ]

Um... and the CPU is in the room with you.

[woodsdenis]

Originally Posted by John_Toolbox

I went and bought one of these:

http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/12...sure/IF107-081

and have an SSD on the way from newegg. Will post on the LE section here when I get it running.

Post here John aswell, looks very interesting

[D'Animation]

Um... and the CPU is in the room with you.

no worse than the funky air con in my room

but seriously, if digi were to release a unified platform with a dsp box, it would make one hell of a editing station - huge screen, fast, plenty of storage via FireWire etc. My assistants g5 is starting to struggle and i'm definitely considering setting up LE with the iMac
D

[John_Toolbox]

Originally Posted by woodsdenis

Post here John aswell, looks very interesting

Just got the SSD installed and formatted. So it does work.... Now I just need to test it



I will say that this is not for the faint of heart. If you are comfortable disassembling laptops it's not that bad, but this mod requires very steady hands and the unplugging of very small connectors. Study the take apart guide on ifixit carefully so you know what to expect. The 4 wires connected to the display are very fragile.

There are 2 minor problems I ran into with the install of the optical-to-2.5" drive caddy. The first one is that there is a temp sensor glued on to the optical drive that you will need to pry off with an exacto knife and attach to the new drive caddy. The other one was just a general lack of quality on the caddy, the holes in it didn't line up very well. I bought my caddy from newmodeus.com, it was $42.00 instead of the $59.00 ifixit price. It's possible that the one from ifixit is of better quality, but it also may just be the same unit.

The other problem is dust! After being very careful to make sure the screen was clean, I still ended up with a few specs of dust in between the external glass and the screen. Not noticeable when the screen is on, but it still is irritating knowing that there is a few small particles of dust in there.

All in all though, the whole disassembly/re-assembly took less than an hour. All you need for tools are a T10 torx screwdriver, a very small phillips, and a pair of suction cups for removing the glass.