New Mac is heading my way

[Rik]

Bigger and better?

[Steve]

The new Mac Pro is out if you've got plenty of dosh.

[Gary]

The new Mac Pro is out if you've got plenty of dosh.

Id love one, they are built so beautifully, a real engineering masterpiece. Alas not at that price 

[Tacitus]

Id love one, they are built so beautifully, a real engineering masterpiece. Alas not at that price 

Even with Higher Ed discount an 8-core would come in at around £2250.  Much as I would like one for doing video, I could build an 8-core PC for probably not much more than half that.  The downside is that it would most likely have Windows on it (cough, spit), although an increasing variety of tools are now available on Linux.

[Rik]

You know you want it, Tac.

[Tacitus]

You know you want it, Tac.

I do, I do!  The price is rather too much though, even with the discount    I suspect they will be even more expensive as the pound sinks further....

[Rik]

A bit like petrol you mean.

[Gary]

Its a shame they are so pricey but when you look inside at how they are built and how easy changing drives is and ram etc, well you can kind of see why, If I ever get rich from vlogging i'll by one, but my i7 iMac should do almost all I need tbh.

[Tacitus]

Its a shame they are so pricey but when you look inside at how they are built and how easy changing drives is and ram etc, well you can kind of see why, ........

I must admit they are beautifully engineered.  Reminds me of Leica and Hasselblad cameras - quality and craftsmanship simply oozes out of them.

Changing the drives is simple, much easier than on the iMac I had to do at the weekend.

[Rik]

Things like that are just a pleasure to use.

[Tacitus]

Things like that are just a pleasure to use.

I have a couple of M6 Leicas with the Leicavit style rapid winder bases.  Beautiful cameras, but sadly it will not be long before film is unobtainable.  Not sure whether you can still get Tri-X which used to be the staple for photojournalists and sports photographers. 

[Rik]

I haven't seen any in a while, Tac, I tended to use that or FP4, depending on subject. I still think film has a better feel, a bit like the vinyl vs CD debate.

[Gary]

I haven't seen any in a while, Tac, I tended to use that or FP4, depending on subject. I still think film has a better feel, a bit like the vinyl vs CD debate.

A good turntable, amp and speakers quality vinyl sounds so much better compared with its digital cousin, Rik. 

[Rik]

Ultimately, we are analogue, and any digital medium suffers from errors. Luckily, for the most part these are small enough not to be a worry.

[Gary]

Ultimately, we are analogue, and any digital medium suffers from errors. Luckily, for the most part these are small enough not to be a worry.

Some music just somehow never sounds right in digital formats though, its has less depth almost, and digital can sound sterile.

[Rik]

It can look sterile too, Gary. Film carried far more of an emotive/evocative sense in its images. Digital is good but somehow sterile to my eyes. Not that I have let that get in my way, some of the advantages make it irresistible.

[Gary]

It can look sterile too, Gary. Film carried far more of an emotive/evocative sense in its images. Digital is good but somehow sterile to my eyes. Not that I have let that get in my way, some of the advantages make it irresistible.

Very true, we move with the times and sadly vinyl and celluloid decay and have to become digital to survive in the end, there is an irony there.

[Rik]

Which goes back to the 'we are analogue' point.