Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:03 am
I am very skeptical that the Apple XDR will hit all the specs claimed, particularly in equalling or surpassing the performance of a $35,000 Sony BVM-X300/310 grading display. I would love to be wrong.
I think it's gonna be tough to give away a Trashcan Mac by the end of this year. Granted, the 2019 Mac Pros are ridiculously expensive, but not many people can say they're underpowered or incapable of doing very fast post work with 4K, 6K, and 8K files (assuming fast GPUs and the Afterburner). For certain kinds of work, I think the new Mac Pros will be well-received.
If you price similar workstations from HP or Supermicro, they're actually not that far off in cost, particularly if you factor in the CPU, power supply, number of slots, GPUs, RAM, and so on. But I think trying to get a 2019 6K display to run off a 2013 Mac Pro will be problematic, particularly if the new monitor expects a Thunderbolt 3 connection (which the Trashcan does not have).
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