iMac Pro - Most important options ?
Time for a desktop upgrade. I'm going with an iMac Pro for a number of reasons including general performance and 10Gb ethernet for speedier access to NAS. Oh, and space grey 😊. Primary apps include C1, Affinity Photo, LR, PS, and occasionally Black Magic Davinci Resolve. I'm just planning to move to C1 so really unsure of how it performs on different platforms.
My thinking is that the base 8-core s/b sufficient and better to spend limited budget elsewhere rather than 10-core? Likely worth the $800 to go from 32 to 64gb? Worth the $600 for Vega 64 GPU? If you had to choose between these two upgrades?
Reasonable to save $600's now on GPU upgrade and consider an eGPU down the road if needed?
How well will attached SSD's perform compared to Apple's internal? I'm guessing it's not worth the money for internal SSD and just attach some external?
Thanks,
My thinking is that the base 8-core s/b sufficient and better to spend limited budget elsewhere rather than 10-core? Likely worth the $800 to go from 32 to 64gb? Worth the $600 for Vega 64 GPU? If you had to choose between these two upgrades?
Reasonable to save $600's now on GPU upgrade and consider an eGPU down the road if needed?
How well will attached SSD's perform compared to Apple's internal? I'm guessing it's not worth the money for internal SSD and just attach some external?
Thanks,
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I have the iMac Pro 10 core with 64 GB memory, the Vega 64 graphics card and a 1T SSD. Have to add that I do a lot of work with FCPX and my 4K videos. I also shoot a lot of RAW with my Canon 5D and the iMac Pro handles the Capture One editing without a glitch. I use the Tangent Kb for RAW editing and let me tell you there is an immediate response. I believe the setup the way I have it, although not the cheapest, is right on target. The 1T SSD is never enough to store all that finished product. I use several external drives for my finished work. The 1T SSD will handle all the work I am involved with.
My suggestion is to invest a bit more and get the 10core with the 64GB and the 64GB card. Capture One will love you..
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For what it's worth, unless you're working with large catalogs (and large collections within those catalogs), 32GB of RAM will more than suffice. 0 -
FWIW, I bought almost every option, no regrets:
—2.3GHz 18-core Intel Xeon W processor
—128GB 2666MHz DDR4 ECC memory
—4TB SSD
—Radeon Pro Vega 64 with 16GB of HBM2 memory
I agree with the previous poster that you don't have to have more than 32gb RAM, though I would normally not buy a machine with less than 64gb RAM if it has the capacity. And your workflow might be better off with fewer cores at higher processor speeds.
This is a lovely machine. I have it paired with an NEC A302W 30 inch monitor. Although well-calibrated, I still prefer the iMac monitor.0 -
I got the base model when Microcenter was selling it for $4,000 instead of $5,000 (it's $4,500 now). No regrets performance-wise, but it's been one of the flakier Macs I've had as far as sleep/startup/shutdown issues go. I even had to abandon my first migration and start from scratch with a fresh OS install. It's calmed down greatly since the first two or three months I had it, probably due to OS and firmware updates that have been released since then.
Capture One flies. It's fluid, and exports are blazingly fast. I'm running Nikon D750 RAW and a few D7000 RAW files. I did get an Oyen Mobius Pro 2-Bay USB-C RAID hard drive enclosure from Amazon. Pretty cheap at $120, but it's been a solid performer, and no sleep/wake issues with it, though the fan could be quieter. That holds my masters from previous years and I just moved my photos from the spring onto it. Otherwise I keep the last few months worth plus all my catalogs on the internal SSD. I haven't tried Mojave yet.0 -
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I too got the base model (after reading the diglloyd analysis). Couldn't be happier. What I find annoying however is the fact that you cannot boot from an external disk, that is unless you change some settings. If something happens to your internal disk and you cannot startup from an external backup you are dead in the water. I hesitate going through the steps to change that because you never know that something might not go wrong (the steps can be found at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208198). So my question is, have any of you gone through the procedure to change the security settings? Any problems?
Yes, simple and reasonably quick, considering the reboot one has to do. I realize that in theory, something can always "go wrong," but I am not at all sure what it would be here. And it's more than worth it to be prepared for the eventuality you describe.0
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