Return-Path: Received: from mail-gh0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4745618 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:57:16 +0200 Received: by ghrr18 with SMTP id r18so534147ghr.28 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:59:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=jfXvu4kBjJcTzUSFSzM68tEzNVZ00Y1igKcBQHBvjbg=; b=hTkWLDXvEGBSJYgdxWM9WpsbqaJsvVvQNcWlNZFFDabLw3RpWnGX8/XmTAXTTA+yKl lOi9JneH7hOL3R6VTzLxwcUt/pzmBJ2Liqa720CgF1BK5gscsfYXBQnFpRBKtRfOfISK 9128cHU7TlEA085m0JOfI3hd0zt1XRveHZ3AIz0u7GtvvkBzGYlQLGcmVIUMCb71gA7y KZlyO+n3PR8fwATtiu14t3buPb7m5asQSjI+rKSMAeSAyno1c8gE5Bs/RrJMHoRjHlXb KawfYL3XRLx46nfn00ee9Qjdj9vjKdWUQrzed2wamIy6XVfXjATtZVp4KI72YQCg3B92 9vMA== Received: by 10.60.28.37 with SMTP id y5mr25005184oeg.35.1339603197136; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:59:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.199.41 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:59:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Teddy Gage Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:59:16 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] The Mac Pro is dead To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8fb1f7f0b48eec04c25cacef --e89a8fb1f7f0b48eec04c25cacef Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is why you'd have bootcamp on it, with a persistent and stable Windows partition for recovery. And honestly, Premiere Pro being so much better than FCP 7 these days, and the financial outlay so much less than a new mac pro, why even bother loading OSX? then you're not limited to hackintosh-compatible hardware. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Embury wrote: > That is what I was originally thinking of doing, Hackintosh. > > But since this is going to be my main system, the fact is, driver and > system updates can potentially crush the system to all but nothing and > start from scratch yet again. > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Stephen van Vuuren < > stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote: > >> > Hello PC. We are about to become good friends.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I=92m already a PC friend obviously, but I was contemplating get a bared >> bones SB Xeon Mac Pro as my Hackintosh is an el-cheapo Core 2 dual as I >> need a solid Mac in the shop for working with FCP projects that I create >> DCPs from and for some tasks related to my IMAX non-profit film. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> But since said SB Xeon is not coming, my choices are now hoping people >> will unload old Mac Pro=92s cheap on eBay or look for a write off and do= nate >> one to the film. I certainly can=92t justify buying one of the current >> models at Apple=92s price. I could also consider building a beefier >> Hackintosh =96 and now that choice is much more attractive as a reasonab= ly >> solid Lion Hackintosh can be built cheap.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *stephen van vuuren* >> >> 336.202.4777**** >> >> * * >> >> *http://www.sv2dcp.com/* >> >> *http://www.sv2studios.com/* >> >> *http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/* >> >> * * >> >> *A film is =96 or should be =96 more like music than like fiction. It sh= ould >> be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what=92s behind the >> emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.* >> >> =96*Stanley Kubrick***** >> >> ** ** >> > > --=20 Animator & Editor www.teddygage.com Brooklyn --e89a8fb1f7f0b48eec04c25cacef Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is why you'd have bootcamp on it, with a persistent and stable Win= dows partition for recovery. And honestly, Premiere Pro being so much bette= r than FCP 7 these days, and the financial outlay so much less than a new m= ac pro, why even bother loading OSX? then you're not limited to hackint= osh-compatible hardware.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Emb= ury <aembury@gmail.com> wrote:
That is what I was originally thinking of doing, Hackintosh.

But sin= ce this is going to be my main system, the fact is, driver and system updat= es can potentially crush the system to all but nothing and start from scrat= ch yet again.


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 a= t 11:47 AM, Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com>= wrote:
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I=92m already a = PC friend obviously, but I was contemplating get a bared bones SB Xeon Mac = Pro as my Hackintosh is an el-cheapo Core 2 dual as I need a solid Mac in t= he shop for working with FCP projects that I create DCPs from and for some = tasks related to my IMAX non-profit film.

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stephen = van vuuren

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A film is = =96 or should be =96 more like music than like fiction. It should be a prog= ression of moods and feelings. The theme, what=92s behind the emotion, the = meaning, all that comes later.

=96Stanley Kubri= ck

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