One of the first reviews, and it's not really a glowing one:
https://www.slashgear.com/imac-pro-still-doesnt-give-the-one-thing-pros-want-06487652/
Rob
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On 6-6-2017 21:50, Angus Davidson wrote:
Unfortunately Apple has defined pro market to mean , FCP X and a
little bit of after effects. Its the only reason I can think of for
some of the dumb decisions made in the last two years. Up to and
including today.
At least dell gives decent EDU discounts. Going to make the move from
apple far less painful for us
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*From:* Marc-Andre Carbonneau [marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com]
*Sent:* 06 June 2017 09:38 PM
*To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List.
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*Subject:* RE: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?
Heheheh thanks everyone. I’m not so much using powerful pcs anymore
but was interested in getting the low down on these “new” contenders.
MAC
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[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of
*Jonathan Moore
*Sent:* June-06-17 3:36 PM
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*Subject:* Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?
Apologies for this slight digression into the benefits of 2012-2014
generation Zseries workstations but the final good points about them
is that they're built like tanks with top drawer components so they’re
less risk than many other second hand purchases. The total cost for my
three Zseries workstations was under £2k (GPU’s on top) so that’s a
heap of processing power for the budget (96 threads running at 3.1
Ghz). And E5-6670’s are incredibly efficient too so running costs are
very favourable for typical Houdini/ICE CPU simulations. Although
running 9 GPU’s across three workstations for rendering chews through
the juice.
So back to the original point of the iMac Pro. There are far better
ways to spend your cash! :)
On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:21, Jonathan Moore <jonathan.moo...@gmail.com
<mailto:jonathan.moo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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As you can see plenty of PCIe Gen3 x16 and x8’s as long as you go
for a dual processes build.
Dual E5-2670 based systems won’t best a latest & greatest i7 for
GPU rendering but if you pick up a system (or preferably multiple
systems) at the right price, you’re get something that performs
well both on CPU simulations and on GPU rendering duties.
http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400043.pdf
On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:05, Ognjen Vukovic <ognj...@gmail.com
<mailto:ognj...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I thought those z workstations had pretty old mobos. They only
had pcie 2 slots. And at 8x or somthing like that which seems
quite unremarkable for gpu rendering. ------
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