Apple just juiced up its Mac Pro line with some new AMD graphics cards, slowly carving away at the long list of GPU-dependent creatives who switched over to PC. Remember the Mac Pro glory days? The old cheese grater Mac Pro days? There was a long period when most people who did any sort of high-end creative work in terms of video, CG, or motion graphics would pine over the Mac Pro with adoration (I made monthly payments on one for over four years when I was in college). Then came the trash can style Mac Pro, and then many years passed where there was almost no recognition of professional creatives whatsoever from Apple. Around this period, GPU based rendering (Octane, Redshift, etc.) rose, and the majority of CG professionals jumped ship to go over to PC, along with most video editors who went over to Resolve. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 3 August, 2021