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New 2018 MacBook Pro's and BlackMagic eGPU

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Apple's updated MacBook Pro's are attempting to cater to more "pro users" it seems.

6 cores standard on the 15''. Not bad. Same price as the older 4 core model.

Curious to see how this performs in real world tests. Apple claims "70% faster" than last years i5 and i7 processors.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbre...book-pro-price-32gb-ram-4tb-ssd-intel-core-i9

Also announced a BlackMagic eGPU exclusive for MacBook Pro....

Thoughts? Discuss!
 
I'm not a Mac guy but the external GPU is a good plan. I have an Alienware i9 "laptop" with the Alienware Graphics Amplifier (external GPU box) and 2x nVidia 1080s and it's not only a demon, but it's luggable with or without the external GPU. I'm considering adding a third 1080 and just leaving the GPU at the studio when I lug the heavy beast around as DIT.

I have seen a lot more Mac users (colorists, specifically, but some editors) drop Mac in the past 12 months which was a shock because they were tried and true Mac users. Maybe this will bring some folks back around?
 
Yeah, I got a new MacBook Pro with the shitty keyboard that fails with a speck of dust. Took a Class Action lawsuit to get Apple to admit to the design failure. I look forward to the day when they fire Jonny Ive and his skinny fashion design team. Clearly Jonny has an unnatural thing for all things anorexic. Hey Jonny, these are business tools . . . not art objects or an extension of your kinky eating disorder fetish desires ;-)
 
Michael Wahba said:
Curious to see how this performs in real world tests. Apple claims "70% faster" than last years i5 and i7 processors.
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For first few minutes of render until it starts preventing cooking itself.


Zeb B said:
Yeah, I got a new MacBook Pro with the shitty keyboard that fails with a speck of dust. Took a Class Action lawsuit to get Apple to admit to the design failure. I look forward to the day when they fire Jonny Ive and his skinny fashion design team. Clearly Jonny has an unnatural thing for all things anorexic. Hey Jonny, these are business tools . . . not art objects or an extension of your kinky eating disorder fetish desires ;-)
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Yeah, it looks great but typing feel is not so great.

Design flaws seem to be a part of corporate M.O. for a while now.
 
It's adorable how these type of threads always attract the EXACT same people with absolutely nothing better to do.
 
andrewhake said:
It's adorable how these type of threads always attract the EXACT same people with absolutely nothing better to do.
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Always nice to see your contributions in these kind of threads anddrewhake, your input is highly appreciated.
 
Rakesh Malik said:
And these updated laptops still don't have current GPUs... and neither does BMD's eGPU box. What's up with that?
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Thunderbolt only gives you 4 PCI lanes anyway, and only if nothing else is on the other port, so a better card probably not gonna give you much more umph.

In my book, editing (let alone grading) on a laptop is a penalty anyway.
So glad I don't need to do this, and have a real workstation with all the bells and whistles instead.
 
Frank Glencairn said:
Thunderbolt only gives you 4 PCI lanes anyway, and only if nothing else is on the other port, so a better card probably not gonna give you much more umph. In my book, editing (let alone grading) on a laptop is a penalty anyway. So glad I don't need to do this, and have a real workstation with all the bells and whistles instead.
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There are DITs and others who were looking for a Mac solution that would allow them to transcode dailies and viewing files, so this could well appeal to that audience.

It's also very possible that this could be a sign of where Apple is headed with a "Modular Mac Pro" in the future, as a series of boxes you would buy or replace in order to give the machine more power and more capabilities.
 
Marc Wielage said:
It's also very possible that this could be a sign of where Apple is headed with a "Modular Mac Pro" in the future, as a series of boxes you would buy or replace in order to give the machine more power and more capabilities.
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Yes, and in 6 years they come up with the novel idea to put everything in one box, and you can buy/replace only the components you need.

no, wait...

;-)
 
Frank Glencairn said:
Yes, and in 6 years they come up with the novel idea to put everything in one box, and you can buy/replace only the components you need.

no, wait...

;-)
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Maybe have 5 PCI style slots and 16 user replaceable RAM slots in a giant box that could accommodate a 600w power supply with oversized fans that run cool and quite. Perhaps called it a Quadra 950. Wait . . .

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It looks like it has some design flaws


It's a bit like champagne grapes grown on a potato field and sell it as a high quility champagne (this is also done in reality).
 
apple's update seems to address this issue to some level..
https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/91256u/optimal_cpu_tuning_settings_for_i9_mbp_to_stop/

I need a new laptop and am probably going to buy one of these but would love it if anyone has access to these could give any feedback on how it handles looking at Red footage in Redcine?.. all I will use it for is downloads, LTO backups and looking at the odd clip.

also I assume since it is a power issue there is little point buying the high clock speed version??
 
Jarek Zabczynski said:
My 2012 MacBookPro is fine for that...
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You are right.... if you can hold off ALWAYS hold off


Unfortunately a 2012 MacBookpro won't hit min spec for Redcine (GPU ram)... try reviewing 8k Monstro files and it is nearly useless. Also the one I am using at the moment (2013 I think) has had a few weird shut downs so I do need to change..
 
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