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Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Is this event entirely AI-generated? Backgrounds seem too perfect, speeches seem too tight.

We've been discussing this as well, the Virtual Production production value is incredible, are they also standing on a stage outside, and this is all being composited live, with foreground passes, etc. without green screen?

Surely it's all pre-recorded and edited together

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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I’d been wondering how they were going to handle expandable memory with the M chip, since the integrated memory seemed pretty central to the design - seems like the answer is, “they’re not.” Be interested to see if PCI expansion is sufficient to satisfy the Max Pro market.

The approach they took is certainly enough to satisfy the video and related markets. It won't help those who need truly staggering amounts of ram for their workloads. It may not be a big use case for the Intel Mac Pro, but it a use case nonetheless.

For video editing, color grading, audio editing, 3D animation, etc. this new machine seems really strong. I am not sure if there is anything beyond that, however.

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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In this discussion: people who know little about Apple Silicon architecture ("no discreet GPU, not buying"), who are not the target audience for this ("$77k for a comoputer!?!?!"), who do have no idea what video creatives need (see: discreet GPU), raging.

These systems (especially the Pro) are for people who spend all day working on 4k and up video.

Also, guys: do you really think that any of you are smarter than Apple? That Apple doesn't spend a lot of time talking to top creative professionals?

These systems aren't developed in a vacuum, especially at these price points.

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Is this event entirely AI-generated? Backgrounds seem too perfect, speeches seem too tight.

We've been discussing this as well, the Virtual Production production value is incredible, are they also standing on a stage outside, and this is all being composited live, with foreground passes, etc. without green screen?

Tim may be live but everything else is prerecorded

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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post #24

I think this new Mac Pro is more geared for PCIe developers so they can start testing drivers etc and the big launch will be with the M3. It really doesn't offer any huge benefits over the Mac Studio.

Yes presumably a decent % of previous Mac Pro customers are ok with a Studio

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've been discussing this as well, the Virtual Production production value is incredible, are they also standing on a stage outside, and this is all being composited live, with foreground passes, etc. without green screen?

Surely it's all pre-recorded and edited together

You're right. I thought this was a live event, but the people watching it live are just watching a video, just saw a live photo from twitter. Makes a lot more sense!

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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post #24

I think this new Mac Pro is more geared for PCIe developers so they can start testing drivers etc and the big launch will be with the M3. It really doesn't offer any huge benefits over the Mac Studio.

Yes presumably a decent % of previous Mac Pro customers are ok with a Studio

Yeah. I know a bunch of media composers that switched to the M1 Studio from a Mac Pro and are very happy.
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