Yeah, I have a 2008-vintage mac pro that really excels as a “home mainframe”. It’s plenty fast enough and infinitely flexible: in its lifetime, I’ve upgraded the memory and the disk drives and last year put in some monster NVidia card to play Skyrim with. Unglamorous, but what a workhorse. -T
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
