Return-Path: Received: from mail.austinmichael.com ([64.238.169.36] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5105476 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:22:41 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.13] ([70.164.195.224]) by mail.austinmichael.com (IceWarp 9.4.2 RHEL5.3) with ASMTP (SSL) id XRS87433 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:32:33 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Subject: Re: [AE] New MacPro From: Dan Spiess In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:32:31 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <346AAB6D-098E-4E26-88FD-5729AE4E9548@lighthousetv.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) An educated guess is that a substantial amount of the work done these = days by editors and motion graphics designers on Macs are being done = with laptops and iMacs.=20 There just isn't the market there use to be for faster, more expandable = computers when you have the most basic Macs running circles around = computers from just a few years ago. Thunderbolt connectivity in all the = mac lineup is huge, and thunderbolt is getting more than three times = faster in the next 6 months or so. That technology will get into iMacs = and MacBook Pros soon, I'm sure.=20 The Mac Pro is a niche computer these days, and it's only going to get = worse, I afraid. =20 Dan Spiess On Jun 12, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Brendan Bolles = wrote: > 64 GB of RAM and two GPUs would have been heaven not too long ago, and = I seem to remember people doing some pretty quality work even before it = was possible to equip a computer in that fashion. If what you're doing = puts you in the rarified group of people who must have more, then by all = means, jump ship.