jbmoonchild
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Working composer here ready to upgrade my single Mac Pro (quad-core trashcan) system. For the longest time I had been considering demoting my current computer to PT/video rig and buying a nice new computer to use as my DAW/sequencer rig (and maybe someday a third for VEP). But with the release of these insane new mac pros, I'm considering going big there and essentially creating a one-computer system that runs Pro Tools and Logic and 3 or 4 displays on one machine. Perhaps even VEP. It seems to me that the primary purpose of the common multi-computer setups is to separate limited resources (CPU/RAM/GPU) - which makes sense. But with the specs on these new Mac Pros...I wonder if it actually makes more sense to simplify and eliminate the need for ethernet networking, multiple interfaces, mouse and keyboard switching, etc. I would probably be looking at the 12 or 16 core, 96GB ram model for about $8k-9k. Thoughts? Is there a good reason I'm not considering to keep video, VEP, and sequencer DAW on separate computers?