Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4745649 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:05:03 +0200 Received: by wefh52 with SMTP id h52so615022wef.28 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:07:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Yi7oACopKtvDPzpmTUJotSsfJPeKJbJDoKhuwTdCleU=; b=On9uEr0Xi8ytnkfCTk3P+bggchl6b/YV9yRHsTVVz6UjYP/NQEpAGDQRbxOwgfJzAG Tu5Yk55BDPNFIbBGQZ3bEpe5fgp4hc3X6udSHZHwYwbgvuJP0I3jKAiCg6Z6eZmDkroM KR6gBTXxlm4Glng/bpLUEN00Up6ehb2J5Gs6eoQqA5mQBaMA8gOMvI1mlwJIT9uWYQLy Na3ZI82Sl6IpUOtIoVPmeBBxlE2JL1cnUfm5B0vPG4D7qBoyVDLLp6Z/Wf1VAyEXAUdi f/1Dx7q4sQUYnzpb4OZzPL+tDcbCW3SJ1LDhz4PZ6Ja12NK+kmn9bZuFlatG2fcP+JaT pb1A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.84.35 with SMTP id v3mr38936969wiy.20.1339603665316; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.216.76 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:07:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:07:45 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] The Mac Pro is dead From: Andrew Embury To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04428b309c69f004c25cc890 --f46d04428b309c69f004c25cc890 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precisely why I'm switching all together. I thought there was a future....a glimmer of hope.... The new MBP's look decent, but again, for what it is...not sold. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Teddy Gage wrote: > 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 bare= d >>> 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 creat= e >>> 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 d= onate >>> 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 reasona= bly >>> 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 >>> should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what=92s behi= nd the >>> emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.* >>> >>> =96*Stanley Kubrick***** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >> >> > > > -- > Animator & Editor > www.teddygage.com > Brooklyn > > --f46d04428b309c69f004c25cc890 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precisely why I'm switching all together. I thought there was a future.= ...a glimmer of hope....

The new MBP's look decent, but again, f= or what it is...not sold.


On Wed, Jun= 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wr= ote:
This is why you'd have bootcamp on it, w= ith a persistent and stable Windows partition for recovery. And honestly, P= remiere Pro being so much better than FCP 7 these days, and the financial o= utlay so much less than a new mac pro, why even bother loading OSX? then yo= u're not limited to hackintosh-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 at 11:47 AM, S= tephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote:

> Hello PC. We are abou= t to become good friends.

=A0<= /p>

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.

=A0<= /p>

But since said SB Xeon= is not coming, my choices are now hoping people will unload old Mac Pro=92= s cheap on eBay or look for a write off and donate one to the film.=A0 I ce= rtainly 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 choi= ce is much more attractive as a reasonably solid Lion Hackintosh can be bui= lt cheap.

=A0<= /u>

stephen = van vuuren

336.202.4777=

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http://w= ww.sv2dcp.com/

http://www.= sv2studios.com/

http= ://www.outsideinthemovie.com/

=A0

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

=A0

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