Does it really matter THAT much though? You can just keep using the slightly older versions of software.
Again, this is what you deal with in the Mac world. It's probably your best bet unless you want to get a garbage can, laptop in a desktop form factor, or move over to the PC world.
Good point. I'll see again what fits my budget best, I hadn't anticipated this option though.
Thanks for everyone's help!
My bad, I mistyped though I searched the 7950.
Again, though, I feel that the Mac Pro will not be supported in a year or two, and a few years later Adobe wouldn't support it, so it would be a rather useless purchase.
The new 27" iMac is at least upgradable for hard drive, RAM, and CPU, though I'm not sure about graphics card. Looks like it though.
Is the 7950 enough of an upgrade from the 780M, even if the 7950 doesn't support the optimizations Adobe has for NVIDIA cards?
If you REALLY want a Mac, get one of the older Mac Pros and throw a flashed 7950 into it. That should be decent for rendering at a much lower cost.
Hmm... my main issue is that it doesn't seem like it will be supported much longer, as well as the fact that the 7650 doesn't seem to support Adobe products as well as NVIDIA.
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In all honesty, you'd probably be best going with the higher end specs.
All right. Going to go see if that fits into my budget, I might be having a bit more ramen this year though.
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GPU acceleration means that there will be direct calculation on the cards instead of going through layers of software for the calculation.
Do you feel that having a Mac would be the best option for you in terms of work? I'm not concerned about the performance.
I could get the most help from colleagues with a Mac, and I'm still not fluent in the modeling software we use. Thanks for the explanation of GPU acceleration as well.
Agreed with above, i7 will make a difference depending on what modeling you are doing and for video editing. As for the gpu, I know that most things are gpu accelerated now but I'm not entirely sure how the vram comes into play with it. However, faster gpu should make a difference for the things that can use gpu acceleration so the extra power of the 780m would make a difference even if the vram does not.
EDIT: Just realised I'm not sure if either of the cards are supported (or will be supported) for gpu acceleration in CS6. If the ARE the 780m will make a difference, if not then you may as well stick with the the cheaper 775m
From research, though the main Adobe website isn't fully updated, the 775M and 780M support gpu acceleration.
You are all conspiring to make me spend more money.
No, but in all reality: could you explain what gpu acceleration is? Adobe tells some of the benefits of it, but what is it actually doing? Is it a hardware or software feature, etc.?
If you want an iMac get an iMac... theres no reason to force a platform on someone who's comfortable where they are. And thats coming from a PC guy. As for the config options, if you are doing a buttload of video transcoding, you will notice a difference between the i5 and i7, otherwise just get the i5. For the video card, honestly I have no idea how much graphics memory 3D modeling requires at least for any work you would be doing on an iMac, but I somehow doubt it needs as much as, say BF4 which I run on 2GB fine. Remember, in the rare circumstance that you go over your 2GB vRAM it will just cut into your RAM temporarily with a slight performance loss. But 99% of the time you should be fine.
Thanks for your advice! I'll see what a few others have to say but that's an excellent starting point.
eg.?I fail to see how it's illegal.
The serious flaw is the lack of support in the OS coupled with insane margins and poor components on the hardware itself.
If you want to run Adobe programs and modeling extremely well, getting an actual desktop is your only real option.
e.g everyone else uses it, so it makes the most sense if I needed help with a task and for compatibility. I've had issues with photoshop between OS X and Windows.
I should rephrase the illegal part: it's a violation of Apple's EULA.
Lack of support of what? Do those above components work for photoshop/illustrator and modeling? To be honest, both programs work to some extent on my current Mac, and considering the 4-year gap I presume at least one of those processors and graphics cards would be sufficient.
This is a very interesting feature. If I recall correctly, there was a way to make minecarts invisible as well. If that is true, it might be possible to have a sphere with an opening without the obvious mass of minecarts.
Will be interested to see if this is used in other maps, perhaps by the creator of the Code. The final destruction sphere shown in this video showed obvious similarity to Code III's ending,
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Good point. I'll see again what fits my budget best, I hadn't anticipated this option though.
Thanks for everyone's help!
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My bad, I mistyped though I searched the 7950.
Again, though, I feel that the Mac Pro will not be supported in a year or two, and a few years later Adobe wouldn't support it, so it would be a rather useless purchase.
The new 27" iMac is at least upgradable for hard drive, RAM, and CPU, though I'm not sure about graphics card. Looks like it though.
Is the 7950 enough of an upgrade from the 780M, even if the 7950 doesn't support the optimizations Adobe has for NVIDIA cards?
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Hmm... my main issue is that it doesn't seem like it will be supported much longer, as well as the fact that the 7650 doesn't seem to support Adobe products as well as NVIDIA.
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All right. Going to go see if that fits into my budget, I might be having a bit more ramen this year though.
Completely off-topic: dechristmasified my avatar.
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I could get the most help from colleagues with a Mac, and I'm still not fluent in the modeling software we use. Thanks for the explanation of GPU acceleration as well.
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From research, though the main Adobe website isn't fully updated, the 775M and 780M support gpu acceleration.
You are all conspiring to make me spend more money.
No, but in all reality: could you explain what gpu acceleration is? Adobe tells some of the benefits of it, but what is it actually doing? Is it a hardware or software feature, etc.?
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Thanks for your advice! I'll see what a few others have to say but that's an excellent starting point.
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e.g everyone else uses it, so it makes the most sense if I needed help with a task and for compatibility. I've had issues with photoshop between OS X and Windows.
I should rephrase the illegal part: it's a violation of Apple's EULA.
Lack of support of what? Do those above components work for photoshop/illustrator and modeling? To be honest, both programs work to some extent on my current Mac, and considering the 4-year gap I presume at least one of those processors and graphics cards would be sufficient.