On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > What do you really need a Mac Pro 8-core for? My brother uses one of > those but he does real-time work (video/audio editing - it's his > business: http://www.headlinestudios.net/Headline_Studios.html) which > is orders of magnitude more demanding than still photography work.
I don't need the 8-cores, but it doesn't seem that the 8-core mac pros are that much more expensive on craigslist than the 4-core. What I do want is the ability to put multiple drives in the case. If I were to get a mac mini, then I'd need to buy another box for external drive storage. I'm not terribly space limited, and if I can get 8 cores of performance for about the same price as 4, that would be a bonus. You and I tend to photograph very different things. I do a lot of photography of events of the sort that in order to get the good shots of a wide variety of people there, I need to shoot a lot of frames. You may not, but that is what works for me. I tend to get home from these events late in the wee hours, and want a fast turnaround on the photos for the people at the events. In order to scan through hundreds of photos quickly, I need to pre-process them first. The faster that happens, the better. So if two cores takes me 20 minutes to pre-process, four takes 12, and eight takes 8, and it doesn't cost me much more money for the extra speed, I'll give up a little space on the top of my desk. I expect that my next new computer will be some sort of macbook, because mine is getting a bit long in the tooth, much worse than my iMac. However, the longer I can put off that purchase, the more power I get for my money. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
