Made-in-USA ain't cheap.

Don't forget to buy a trash bin backpack to carry it everywhere :)

Weather proof, shock proof, fool proof... $200ish?

Go Apple. You Can Do It!!! Nah

Or the buttplug as it has been affectionately been accepted, with it's non multitasking new operating system - winner! Dixons thinking for the masses woop! Apple shrinking faster than a slug on salt and going route 1 reducing programming overhead and support needs - the future's bright lol at least Final cut problems in post we spend polishing daily will be condemned to pics of the kids at the beach for the boss, and not broadcast?

I can tell you I've been waiting years for a new Mac Pro, and unless the price is flat out ridiculous I will buy. I need a Mac (or Hacintosh) to run FCPX and the more powerful the better. I very much dislike the whole windows experience. Now thats me personally, each to there own tho. I have no beef with others using windows, it's just not my cup of tea.

How stable are the Hackintoshes? I don't ever want to screw around with making it work. I have better things to do like shoot or be a dad. I want it to work automatically, update automatically, be stable, and have zero to worry about ever. Are they that stable? Can you say that about them? If so, I might have to look into it, if not the Mac Pro is the only option. I make enough money shooting where the cost is the least important thing.

@kurth

This topic is not about thing you posted.

At least they'll be 100% support for Haswell i7-4770K and 4950HQ chips in our hackintoshes.

Whole design is usual Apple. Buy and throw to dump. Impossible to repair and impossible to upgrade.

Ha ha ha Hilarious!! and very true!! My G5 eventually got shelved for that very reason.

I wonder would the late Steve approves of this design? Looks like a macro Cray-1 but not as pretty.

Whole design is usual Apple. Buy and throw to dump. Impossible to repair and impossible to upgrade. Ha ha ha Hilarious!! and very true!! My G5 eventually got shelved for that very reason.

You could've sold your G5 for a very fair price and upgraded before the value fell. The resale market for Macs is very brisk and the value stays high even after the new models come out. It's always been this way. That's just like the used BMW market. That's how people have been upgrading for years. That and some do actually upgrade the CPU and other components when possible. The G5 wasn't one of those models that lent itself to processor upgrade. This is the weakest argument against Mac that people tend to use. If you want to upgrade Ram, HD or GPU that's not an issue. The problem has been the CPU and MOBO, tho there are those who upgrade CPU's.

This last cycle was much longer than it should've been and that's why there's such an uproar about Hackintosh and MacPro. Now that a new MacPro is on the way that shouldn't be an issue for some. I can't really be too crazy about this new MacPro until we see the pricing. Will they have lower price models as they've always had or will it only be this top spec model?

@Brian202020 & anyone else ...I am a loyal mac user who is pissed:

I have owned Macs for 20 years. A 7100/66, 8100/80 with Radius video vision nubus SD monitoring package using Premiere 1.x (I can't remember). A Ti G4, Alu G5, MBP 2006 1st gen, MBP 2009. This DSLR HD video revolution made editing on FCP7 on a laptop too processor intensive. My 2006 fried it'self from heat, after having to get the LCD replaced annually (!!!) (it was a 1st gen too), Applecare finally did me a solid after I was pulling my hair out having sunk $2.5k into this laptop and THEY replaced the machine after 3 years of problems with a 2009 MBP FOR FREE (AppleCare pays!). The GH2 transcode to Prores, multicam edit in FCP7, apply some CC, all OK on it. Render a TC window-dub or some web friendly 1080 H264 made the thing sound like it was going to take off with jet propulsion (fans). Not to mention the FW800 RAID I had hooked up to the thing for storage. So I bought a 2008 MacPro (all I could afford) and loaded it with hard drives, Then I learned firsthand FCP7 only uses 1 processor so having 8 didn't matter and the ECC RAM is really expensive for the 2008 model.

OK, I'll go for FCPX or Premiere. I reasearched GPUs that would be both FCPX and Premiere friendly, I had to do some hacking to get any cross NLE love to work on the Mac! Something about an AMD vs Nvidia split at Apple (like Flash on the iPhone and BluRay for the Mac). End result FCPX was sluggish and always needed to render. Editing natively was bloating my hard drives with render files, and yes FCPX said it was using the GPU. I finally used a utility (atMonitor) and found it only used 50% max of my Nvidia GPU's capacity in the MacPro (some say Nvidia doesn't do OpenCL well, but my benchmarks were high). On my 2009 MBP with naitively supported Nvidia GPU same BS. Even thought the last 2 versions were re-written to fully utilize the GPU. Other sources said FCPX was optimized for the i7. Why did Apple build the MacPro to server grade specs (with ECC RAM) and FCPX to not take advantage? To force iMac sales? Why can't FCPX use more of my GPU's power? To implement designed obsolescence from the software...? All while waiting for a smoke signal of what might come. What kind of a company is this for pros? The lack of updates of Aperture, Logic, the missing features in FCPX, they bought and killed Shake and Color Finesse, the success of iPhones and iPads, the soldered RAM in the new rMBPs & iMacs... had apple forgotten it's base (pros) who saved it from ruin some 10 years ago? Was this the writing on the wall?

The release of this new MacPro tells me yes, Apple is no longer a serious computer company for professionals. But, they have a very stable OS I know inside and out. In Feb. I was sick with the flu and had time to read up on Tonymac and watch some youtube videos (Bob Roche comes to mind, where he builds a hackintosh from scratch ). Yes, if I had the cash I would have rather bought a 2013 MacPro with an i7, reasonably priced RAM, available PCI slots and an upgradable GPU. Right you would too, but, there isn't one: there's the un upgradable iMac... WTF? No thank you. I want something with expandability.

The Hackintosh I built is the most stable mac I have ever owned. It is also the fastest and the cheapest. It's a work station so I don't care that it's not pretty (it sits under a desk), but, with my limited funds it means I can keep up and keep shooting cost effectively, multi-cam editing my multiple GH2 shoots in the small market here.

I am glad someone is doing well, the economy is crap elsewhere. I am not sure I will buy another un-upgradable computer from apple unless it's a portable or a $1000 tin can holding a processor and a dual GPU. I don't think the new MP is going to fit that budget, esp when a 1 foot TB cable is $30. It's become a company that doesn't care about media professionals anymore: you can't base a business on what hardware you might get "sometime in 2013".

For just over $1000 I built a Hackintosh, i7, 16GB RAM, SSD, GTX 570 with a BluRay (!!!) burner. If you're in the USA and have a MicroCenter nearby they have great deals (Fry's too). At MicroCenter you can return the parts in 14 days if it's not for you. There is nothing cheap or noisy about it. It just works. Like the GH2, someone cracked it and made it better than the greedy corporations wanted it to be.

By all means, spend your time with your kids. But if you want a no fuss upgradable hackintosh, look on craigslist for a 15 year old building them or contact Bob Roche (college student, no affiliation to me, I just learned off his YT videos) to build you one as a client (only 10% markup), and avoid the Mac 1st gen follies (been there, done that -MBP) and designed obsolescence madness from Apple!

This isn't bashing, this is giving unknowing future customers some perspective (and warning). I enjoy my Mac (& Hack)-intoshes. They have a great OS built on UNIX.

@Brian202020 et al. Hackintosh how to: http://twit.tv/show/know-how/18