handz
Senior Member
Yah I also had these dreams, but thebcI woke up and bought 2020 Imac from a guy who bought it and find out he doesn’t like it after few days. 2tb ssd from apple will sadly cost 6x what it normally cost and same for ram.
Apple m1 macs with 16gb ram handling - Anyone tried?
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Sorry, I have no plans to stop calling them master and slave.
These aren't Confederate statues erected decades after the Civil War to intimidate Black people, they're computers.
jonnybutter
Senior Member
There was speculation (or something) that the minis might some day be able to be ganged together somehow. I don’t know how it would work or if it’s even possible. But something like that would be ideal. Need more power? Get another mini. Something like that would keep me on the Mac long term. Seems unlikely though.
You mean a way of making them appear as one machine? That would be cool, but I haven't heard anything about it.
jonnybutter
Senior Member
Yes, exactly. I could of course be mistaken, but I thought that it was Apple itself who sort of vaguely teased this idea a few years ago. BS probably. Appealing idea though. Don’t know if it’s even possible..
Logic had a "distributed audio processing" feature that would use another computer on the network's horsepower to do the heavy lifting, but I don't even know whether it's still there.
jonnybutter
Senior Member
Wow, that’s interesting. Logic is so deep. Old feature? Did it work?
I was thinking of something else, specifically about the mini, implying that they are modular. A nice dream…
Vik
Vi-k
You mean the 2019 Mac Pro?
Personally, I'll probably need my 2010 Mac Pro for a while, and I have already (kind of) bought a 3.8 i7 Intel iMac. But I'd much rather have a 30" iMac, or an M1X MacBook Pro, if 64gb RAM is an option (and the price isn't ridiculous).
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Personally, I'll probably need my 2010 Mac Pro for a while, and I have already (kind of) bought a 3.8 i7 Intel iMac. But I'd much rather have a 30" iMac, or an M1X MacBook Pro, if 64gb RAM is an option (and the price isn't ridiculous).
iMac Pro Predictions and Rumors | 30-inch Display, M1X Power, Same Chin
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman stated in April that Apple had paused the development of its 30" iMac, which would replace the outdated 27" iMac. The M1X is
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Rick Baumhauer
handz
Senior Member
I always wondered who buys this overpriced mac. Imac is absolutely awesome machine for the price but MacPro? It is like 5x expensive than PC alternative and I really don’t see how can anyone justify this price. Especially when it gets old super fast
KEM
The TENET Guy
Professional studios that can throw money at this stuff without thinking twice
handz
Senior Member
BassClef
Senior Member
I just priced a fully loaded "current" MacBookPro (2TB internal) for about $4300. Since you can get 64BG in that (and the mini) I'm still holding out hope that the new ones will have that much RAM as well... plenty for me!. It's hard for me to believe that they would take a step back and still call in Pro!
rnb_2
Rick Baumhauer
It is, for the time being, the most powerful computer that runs macOS. You can install up to 1.5TB of RAM. There are literally no cables inside the machine, which makes working inside the case (should you want to) much easier than a similar PC. The 1st Party GPUs, while expensive, don't come with the loud fans you find on the commodity cards in the PC market - they are designed to use the large, quiet fans built into the case for cooling. The 1st Party GPUs also support a ridiculous number of displays - up to 8 4K displays, 4 5K displays, or 6 6K Pro Display XDRs from a single card (and you can install multiple cards). For video work, it's the only machine that supports the Afterburner card, which supports 6 streams of 8K ProRes RAW video, or 23 streams of 4K ProRes RAW video.
While all of those items probably don't matter to any single user, only one needs to matter to someone with the budget for the Mac Pro.
tmhuud
Black Belt
I guess you can stop wondering.
