Void between the iMacs and Mac Pro's.
The iMac is a powerful system but lack of PCI slots, single display does not work for everyone.
I want to upgrade and sell my G5 Dual 2.3 and move on to intel macs. A core 2 Duo Intel mac with PCI slots and multi display support will suit my purposes just fine.
I could go Macbook with external display but if its a machines i will carry around, i dont feel comfortable carrying my main studio machine around.
Or maybe i just haven't gotten out of the mindset and accepted an iMac as a super professional machine.
Do i make any sense at all ?
ps: Who's running an iMac as their main studio machine in atleast a semi-pro environment where clients come in regularly. And how do a FW interface and Harddrive behave together........ ?
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Faisal Baig wrote:
Does anyone else feel that Apple should have kept atleast 2 lower end options for those who want to be on a Mac Pro, but cant afford them.
They had moved to a "4 core" base model some time ago and you can still configure it with 4 cores you just get 1 Quad instead of 2 Duals. The cost is the cost of the system my friend but it is a pro workstation that you will have no need to upgrade from for a long time. These Intel's have a good lifespan compared to the G5s.
Faisal Baig wrote:
A core 2 Duo Intel mac with PCI slots and multi display support will suit my purposes just fine.
No such Mac.
Faisal Baig wrote:
Or maybe i just haven't gotten out of the mindset and accepted an iMac as a super professional machine.
For audio its not.
Faisal Baig wrote:
Do i make any sense at all ?
Sure you do!
Faisal Baig wrote:
And how do a FW interface and Harddrive behave together........ ?
Main problem with the iMacs is the lack of expansion as you have pointed out. You will always have devices competing for bandwidth on the internal FireWire bus. Also the FireWire bus is only as fast as the slowest device on the tree so you can lose performance quickly that way. With expansion ports you can record in one bus and write out another and get much better performance that way. But with 4 drive bays on the MacPro you won't need to write out a bus except for backup or if you were to get an external RAID.
Cheers!
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