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| I track my costs very very carefully. I have had very high end machines from Dell, Alienware, and HP. For most of that time I also ran the current version of a Mac. I am now doing almost all of my work on a Mac. The biggest reason? Long-term cost of ownership plus productivity. Considering all the costs and the resale value my max have cost me 20 to 30% less than any of the Windows machines I have owned in the past 20 years. That cost of ownership includes the hardware, upkeep, time it takes to keep the software update it and protected with virus controls, and backing up. Your mileage may vary, but I would strongly encourage anyone using a computer to make their living to keep track of all the real costs involved in ownership. Up until two years ago the very first 24” Intel iMac (remember the big white plastic one?) was still being used nearly every day by a former client that bought it from me when I updated the machine in 2009 to keep up with their Photoshop work. That computer ran with nothing more than cleaning the dust out of it and replacing the hard drive every three or four years From January 2006 when I bought it at MacWorld until November 2017. I’m giving the new Mac Pro about six months and then buying one to sit right next to my fully loaded iMac Pro. Rick Gerard DP/VFX Supervisor Northern California > On Dec 10, 2019, at 1:41 PM, Jim Curtis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote: > > In spite of the arguments against it, and I appreciate all the input, pro and con, I still think I’m going to order one. I can be the canary in the coal mine. > > So my question for the experts is: Since Ae and Pr comprise 99% of my paying work, what do you think would be better? > > 16-core > 32G RAM (base) > Radeon Pro Vega II with 32GB of HBM2 memory (+$2400 over the base GPU) > 1 TB SSD > $10,799 from Apple. > > or > > 24-core > 32G RAM (base) > Radeon Pro 580X with 8GB of GDDR5 memory (base) > 1 TB SSD > $12,399 from Apple > > IOW, fewer cores and better GPU vs. more cores and lesser GPU. > > I understand this may be unanswerable now, but I wonder whether buying the base GPU can be replaced (or augmented) with a better 3rd party card later. Apple’s prices to upgrade the GPUs are stratospheric. > > I’ll add more RAM later from a 3rd party. Their upgrade to the SSD isn’t as obscene as some of their other upgrade options. > > Again, part of the reason to buy one of these is for tax purposes. I’m currently working on a 2012 cheese grater that has a hard time with Pr 2020. > > > x > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
