Still not the serious expansion I would want if I went through building a Mac Pro tower. For me it would have to be huge and I would consider Dual Xeons, though since all the new MacPro’s are not dual processor, maybe an i7 would be enough. Dual 6 Cores would be great though, as I could never afford a 12 core.
MacNN has heard that the MacPro may in fact have upgradeable video cards. The Rub is that it is a proprietary connector and shape needed, so the card would have to be specifically designed for it, and it is unlikely that say NVIDIA would do that.
TUAW has the news on the new Promise Technology raid solutions for Thunderbolt 2. And they will be available through the Apple Store. The 20 Gbps speeds will rock for video.
I just wish they had Thunderbolt PCI Cards instead of having to have it on a motherboard!
This has been all over the web, at MacWorld, MacRumors and AppleInsider, to name a few.
Unfortunately this has been Apple’s MO of late. They are dumbing down their software for the average iOS user instead of the Average Mac user and especially not the power use. They killed most of their professional apps, starting with Shake, then Final Cut Pro 7 (yes FCP X has some power features, but it is still dumbed down in so many ways). And now they remove power features from iWorks from Mac to make feature sync with iOS. Shouldn’t they have added features to iOS? Yes, but instead they dumb down. And they will continue. They have already hidden the user library folder which many power users are going into all the time, and password protected the Utilities folder.
I just wish they would make a Power user mode that turns off the hand holding and lets you do as you please, and stop cutting out features that people use, but I don’t see it happening. I mean look at the new MacPro! Yes it is powerful, but not nearly as expandable or upgradeable as the machine it is replacing.
It really makes me wonder if I will have a Windows machine in the future (though I don’t like Windows 8.1 either).
Adobe’s After Effects blog has the news, on this manual update (it is only for Mavericks users so it is not installed through the creative cloud app). You can download it here.
I know Apple must have purposely made Mavericks work with Final Cut Pro 7, but it still works and Premiere Pro CC and CS6 work just fine, so AVID had better get on the ball here.
Of course they have till December with the new MacPro (which will likely coincide with a new version of Mavericks), but that means no new Macs will run AVID until they update!