Time to switch from my Hackintosh to…???
Please, I'd avoid the usual “Mac vs Win” holy war. I would like simply to share thoughts and conditions, asking for your advices in order to take the best possible decision.
I'm leaving Hackintosh mainly for Davinci 18 Studio (and future releases). It seems that, on Win, Davinci still takes advantages mainly of CUDA, whilst in Mac it seems more and more oriented to takes advantages of the new M1 (Max/Ultra/Mighty...) processor and its neural engine.
Unfortunately nowadays Hackintosh has the worst of the two worlds: a NON-M1 CPU and a NON-CUDA GPU. Up to now (DR16-17) my Hackintosh worked very well with its couple of Radeon VII cards, and still now I could upgrade the CPU or add some ram (I have only 64GB), but Davinci will be increasingly optimised for other hardware.
I have two options now:
1. 9300 € for a 32-core neural engine Mac Studio with a single 8TB SSD;
2. 8300 € for a Ryzen 3975WX + RTX 3090 Win machine (where I can mount my current HighPoint 8TB internal 4xM2 raid0).
Roughly the same price, so my only concern is where does Davinci's Neural Engine (and Depth map and subject separation...) WILL work better?
Mac choice's main advantage to me is staying in my well-known habitat-system without touching my two old tb2 HFS+ G-Speed Studio&Shuttle. Davinci's evolution on M1 seems to be in continuous improvement, and Davinci seems to “fit” perfectly to M1 Macs (well, Blackmagic IS a Mac-oriented ecosystem). On the other hand a Mac Studio is a closed box without upgrading possibility, and equipped with an SSD that at his best is drastically slower than the one I currently use.
Win choice's main advantages are the largely greater computational power (good for every aspect of Davinci), hardware upgradeability, many slots for my HighPoint, my Decklink and other PCIe stuff. But Windows is unknown to me, and the worst thing is that my old HFS+ G-Speed RAIDs (that contains ALL my videos) are no more supported by G-Technology (no drivers nor utilities for Windows 11) so I don't even know if Windows 11 will be able to handle my aged RAIDs, transfer all the 96TB of RAW videos, format the raids in NTFS, and then safely transfer back the files without losing them (my death...)
Obviously this is a one way choice (since the price target) and I can't go back. So I'd appreciate VERY much every advice you would share with me. And I hope this thread will be useful for all the other guys those are now in a similar situation.
Thanks in advance.
Please, I'd avoid the usual “Mac vs Win” holy war. I would like simply to share thoughts and conditions, asking for your advices in order to take the best possible decision.
I'm leaving Hackintosh mainly for Davinci 18 Studio (and future releases). It seems that, on Win, Davinci still takes advantages mainly of CUDA, whilst in Mac it seems more and more oriented to takes advantages of the new M1 (Max/Ultra/Mighty...) processor and its neural engine.
Unfortunately nowadays Hackintosh has the worst of the two worlds: a NON-M1 CPU and a NON-CUDA GPU. Up to now (DR16-17) my Hackintosh worked very well with its couple of Radeon VII cards, and still now I could upgrade the CPU or add some ram (I have only 64GB), but Davinci will be increasingly optimised for other hardware.
I have two options now:
1. 9300 € for a 32-core neural engine Mac Studio with a single 8TB SSD;
2. 8300 € for a Ryzen 3975WX + RTX 3090 Win machine (where I can mount my current HighPoint 8TB internal 4xM2 raid0).
Roughly the same price, so my only concern is where does Davinci's Neural Engine (and Depth map and subject separation...) WILL work better?
Mac choice's main advantage to me is staying in my well-known habitat-system without touching my two old tb2 HFS+ G-Speed Studio&Shuttle. Davinci's evolution on M1 seems to be in continuous improvement, and Davinci seems to “fit” perfectly to M1 Macs (well, Blackmagic IS a Mac-oriented ecosystem). On the other hand a Mac Studio is a closed box without upgrading possibility, and equipped with an SSD that at his best is drastically slower than the one I currently use.
Win choice's main advantages are the largely greater computational power (good for every aspect of Davinci), hardware upgradeability, many slots for my HighPoint, my Decklink and other PCIe stuff. But Windows is unknown to me, and the worst thing is that my old HFS+ G-Speed RAIDs (that contains ALL my videos) are no more supported by G-Technology (no drivers nor utilities for Windows 11) so I don't even know if Windows 11 will be able to handle my aged RAIDs, transfer all the 96TB of RAW videos, format the raids in NTFS, and then safely transfer back the files without losing them (my death...)
Obviously this is a one way choice (since the price target) and I can't go back. So I'd appreciate VERY much every advice you would share with me. And I hope this thread will be useful for all the other guys those are now in a similar situation.
Thanks in advance.