Which Linux distros have you tried. Some are significantly easier than others.
From: Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com>
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Date: Wednesday, 07 June 2017 at 2:27 PM
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Subject: Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?
Until they create linux that you can just insatll, get all drivers updated and
all up and running and working in same day it will be nightmare.
Windows just recently crushed 3 of my machines with it's retarded upgrades
policy and for some stupid reason I didn't blok all that crap.. But tried Linux
road couple times and I couldn't even get a single version up and running on
any of my machines. If a fairly advanced user with 20+ years of experience have
to struggle to get OS up and running then it surely something wrong with that
OS :) But yes mac is even rose. simply makes no point in wasting so much money
on something that
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On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Angus Davidson
<angus.david...@wits.ac.za<mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za>> wrote:
I will be honest. I loved my g5 mac pro, and I have loved OSX. There are so
many things is does in a far more elegant manner than Windows. Even to the
point of hackintoshing and putting the OS on decent hardware (where it really
shines). However even with that. These days I go directly to linux. Centos if I
need to run Maya, or Mint if not. Its just so much easier. The new desktops
like Mate make it a total pleasure to work in and its exceptionally quick.
Octane , Photoscan, Fusion all running like a Ferrari.
I am going have to get used to windows 10 as I will have 250 student machines
running it next year, but doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Kind regards
Angus
From: Jonathan Moore
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Date: Wednesday, 07 June 2017 at 1:45 PM
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Subject: Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?
Now more than ever I think of OS X and Apple hardware as the luxury end of the
consumer PC market. There’s so much about OS X that I prefer to Windows but I’m
also aware that I’m paying an extreme premium for the experience.
However, It’s been a long time since I’ve considered Apple hardware to be an
optimal choice for creative professionals per se, never mind 3d professionals.
The iMac Pro is a lustful piece of consumer electronics for sure but it would
be a exceptionally odd choice for a 3d professional.
On 7 Jun 2017, at 12:17, Christopher Crouzet
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Something to consider beyond the hardware is the software.
During the years that I've been using MacOS, Apple often shined at only
supporting outdated OpenGL versions in their OS, or poorly implementing it. To
make things worse, they decided to go their own way with their Metal API
without providing any support for Vulkan (unless I missed something). I don't
think many developers are willing to write their software using the Metal API
to boost rendering performances when the 3D market is fairly small on Mac.
Surely it's a bit cocky from them to be boasting their graphics marketing when
they seem to be hated by graphics developers.
On 7 June 2017 at 17:37, Rob Wuijster <r...@casema.nl<mailto:r...@casema.nl>>
wrote:
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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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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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
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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
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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
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