Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Nehalem 8-Core Hackintosh?

as long as apple doesnt see a need for proper nvidia quadro sdi support...drivers for osx,lmit their internal bays to 4 and fcp beeing only 2k 8 bit rgb, no dpx support...they will stay a cool offline tool.

thats it.

the old story from going from pc to mac and then back again is true.
as long as your mac can cut prores...its enough.

this is from someone who has every mac product...form iphone, mbpro,macbook,imac to macpro....i am surprised how i am surrounded by that apple...
btw. texting with the iphone really sucks
 
I am hanging on to the rumors of FC getting revamped. We could see all kinds of crazy stuff, especially Red Code related now that Red-Apple relationship seems to be going strong and Red has been in development for a long time... I am sure they have been talking a lot

btw, I agree that the iPhone not having a real keyboard is moronic imo
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Yes, Apple systems are expensive... But they are no more expensive than comparable PCs from vendors like Dell and HP. Go price out a top of the line dual Xeon workstation from these guys... Ouch.

(...)

For those comparing Apple prices to assembling their own PC, that's not a proper comparison. Because the same logic applies to comparing their self-built box to HP, Dell, BOXX, etc..
Click to expand...

Compare this single socket Dell system to a baseline Mac Pro:


2j18r4y.jpg





And compare this dual-socket system:


2colovd.jpg



The single socket, from this one example, is cheaper than a similar baseline Mac Pro. And while the two dual-socket systems cannot be directly compared (since there are some disparities in components), they appear to be priced very similarly, with the Mac Pro possibly being cheaper.

You're right in saying that many consumers get sticker shock when looking at workstation / server-class components. There is a price premium passed on to the business world through Xeons, Quadros, and FirePros, etc.

I'm not an expert in the Mac vs. PC debate, but I always find it helpful to use primary source material to help clarify contentious issues. I hope these relatively direct comparisons can ease some of the pricing arguments that occur here.

After all, we're all RED users... or at least will be after Scarlet ships! :beer:

Eric
 
Ethan Cooper said:
I guess someone has to point out that Mac's don't cost more just because Apple puts their components into a prettier box. Part of the premium you pay when buying a Mac is for the peace of mind that you're getting a closed system that just freaking works. The reason Macs are generally more stable than their retarded cousin the PC is this closed system. Apple doesn't have to worry about 10,000 different hardware configurations and how they will affect the stability and usability of their computers since they alone have control over the hardware and the software.
Click to expand...

Yeah Mac's just work, sure . . . like, trying to capture to FCP via Firewire while a Firewire Lacie external is connected . . . doesn't work on a Mac g5 dual 2.7 . . . known error on Apple support - can't have two Firewire devices connected when capturing. Yeah, that works.

Every computer or OS has issues. Don't start the PC hating war.
 
Little Black Bird said:
Yeah Mac's just work, sure . . . like, trying to capture to FCP via Firewire while a Firewire Lacie external is connected . . . doesn't work on a Mac g5 dual 2.7 . . . known error on Apple support - can't have two Firewire devices connected when capturing. Yeah, that works.

Every computer or OS has issues. Don't start the PC hating war.
Click to expand...

Obviously I was speaking in generalities, I was not implying that Macs don't have the occasional issue but simply that they tend to have far fewer issues than their PC counterparts due to the nature of their closed system. How is that starting a PC hating war?
 
Little Black Bird - You're running conflicting devices on the same firewire bus. Get an additional firewire card, plug your external drives into this new card. Plug your deck into the original Apple firewire ports. You'll be fine, and, its more efficient for the system to keep the information on separate buses, particularly if you are loading from a tape to your external drive, and even more so if its much higher data-rate than DV, like Uncompressed 8-bit.
 
These new Macs rock so much!!!! I can now play 2k Red files no prob, real time, in Quicktime
 
Dual Socket motherboards have been available for a whle. However, nehalem processors are a waste of money.

A QQ6600 Dual Socket Octo Core build would be much more cost effective and beneficial if you want a solid rig.

I say this because I'm currently dismantling my 2 year old Dual Boot System... what you might call a hackintosh... which has been running stable for the duration and building a pair of Octocore towers for rendering.

Note: my 2 year old tower is a Quad Core 3.6Ghz @ 4GB of DDR2-1200 ram, tight timings, and a good gig of internal storage. I had no issue playing back 2K when it first hit. It also still benches better than Mac Pros and cost significantly less... that included a 24" and 22" LCD.

The new system will spec out similar if not better.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top