• Eddie
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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

Or do what this guy did and WIN AT FUCKING LIFE.

http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml

Eddie Doty

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

Dorkman wrote:

Or do what I did and build a Hackintosh. I've got an 8-core i7 at a stable overclock of 4.6GHz, 32GB RAM, dual-booting Mountain Lion and Windows 7 from SSDs, and all in cost me about $2500, not including monitor upgrades and such.

I've done my fair share of Hackintosh tries, and even following instructions to the pixel, they somehow always wind up failing at some point. I'd rather shell out for a mac than hope my hackintosh will be stable forever.
You could get lucky, of course, I've just not had the luck thus far. It should also be noted that I'm pretty apt at computers.

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

Fair enough to say -- I've only been running it two months now. Let's check in come summer or Thanksgiving and see how I feel about it then.

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

but your specs are pretty good though. judging by the price, the gfx card isn't up to par with a quadro., is it?

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

since i'm not purchasing until 2014, I'm also interested in seeing what the new Mac Pro will look like.  I may need to purchase a duel processor machine, depending on the answer to a coupla questions.  Eddie, i know your only using a suped up G5, but from what you have heard and understand about the software; are dual processors really worth the consideration?

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

Dual 6-core processors are really worth the consideration. Add hyperthreading, and you have 24 cores. 12 will be virtual, yes, but it'll still blast away.

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

this might deem like a idiotic question, but how do you enable hyperthreading on a mac pro?  I know how to do it on a dell pc, but i've never looked into doing in on a mac...

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

If the CPU supports it's, it's already enabled. It's disabling that's tricky.

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

Tomahawk wrote:

but your specs are pretty good though. judging by the price, the gfx card isn't up to par with a quadro., is it?

Depends on the application, of course, but in CS6 benchmarks, my GTX680 smokes the Quadros.

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Re: New iMac - edit machine?

That's a ray-tracing test, but yeah, I get what you mean.

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