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Originally Posted by relaxo  don't dread! hope for! the Mac Pros kill dead G5s in number crunching as well as in overall snappiness
(then with snow leopard multiprocessor support, stand back (finally) and let 'er rip) |
I know...I have a Nehalem octo with 32 gigs of RAM and 4 TB of disk space. Buying all my favorite plugs again and shifiting to an alternate platform is what I'm talking about. I'm not going to drop $30K with Digi to repro all my hardware and plugs that I have on the G5 at this point in the game and I dread coming up to speed on Logic or moving down to PT LE. After having a 7-card Accel system with 24 i/o to an AES/EBU switcher, number crunching is not the issue...i/o and monitoring are the issues. I don't need more number crunching for audio.
The Nehalem is working great for what I bought it for: FCP studio, Adobe CS4 and Maya. It's overkill for audio and switching to PT LE would be a real let down right now. Adding another Nehalem octo for audio is a possibility, but stocking it with my favorite Digi plugs and HW is not an option. Throwing out everything and starting over is not an option, either, so the "Snow Leopard is going to change everything" theory for pros who have been at this for awhile, is not accurate. If Apple can't offer a good way to make a change, there will be a lot of systems staying online. I've noticed that 2x2 G5s fully stuffed are getting rather tough to find and most of them are used, not unsold new stock. OTOH, lesser varieties of G5s are much more readily available.