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Subject: Re: [AE] New MacBook Pro
From: Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com>
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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:43:05 -0600
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I'm still using a 2008 8 core tower. its filled with drives, 16gb ram, =
SSD, dual CUDA GPU's and I'm reasonably happy. its getting what I need =
done most of the time fast enough. Oh there are occasional times I'd =
want more but... then I have a 2010 iMac i7 2.93ghz. its 4 real cores, 8 =
virtual and its about 5% faster on average than the 2 year older 8 core =
zeon. I attribute this to mostly faster bus and hyper threading that =
works pretty well for AE renders. Even though it lacks a nV GPU, it =
stills edits pretty well with PP. my assistant editor uses it for =
syncing, rough cutting and other jobs without complaint. in some =
respects its a bit faster in handling than the big machine.=20

so its more about is it fast enough for your needs than fastest machine =
in the 'hood, and do you have enough storage. a refurb i7 quadcore 17" =
maxed on ram would be a very nice machine that would handle a lot of =
people's needs. I'm not talking about hardcore 3D and AE main machine, =
but for everything else I think it would pretty much fly if its anything =
like the iMac I have.

FWIW I'm eyeing replacing my current iMac with a new one mostly for the =
nV GPU with 2G of Vram. problem is 3-4 weeks shipping delay

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