[Frank Gothmann] "I am complaining about "less choice". We are talking about three small raid boxes atm compared to dozens and dozens of options. Same for video io, other connectivy etc. Give me TB but don't drop PCIe."
This is a consequence of Thunderbolt having been on the market for a very short period of time. It has essentially no relevance to the subject being discussed, namely whether high-end towers will
continue to be necessary for professional video production in the future.
[Frank Gothmann] "This wasn't even with regards to TB but with regards to Apple dropping dual-cpu towers. How would you want to work and render such files? On an iMac, your Laptop or on a cluster of dual-cpu workstations? That's a serious question, please answer it."
I'm not disputing that there are still some tasks better performed on towers, but I think people are overstating the extent to which this is actually
necessary. It is, objectively, largely
not necessary for any task you were performing prior to the last couple of years, because, as noted previously, today's MacBook Pros are about on par with 2008 dual processor Mac Pros, and only really ~30% slower than
today's base-model 8-core Mac Pro.
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