The New Apple Mac Pro

[Yeroon]

Logic X is just one out of several DAWs out there (Digital Audio Workstation), and it is certainly not the most used professionally in the US' medium to big studios/stages. Sure, it may get that capability later, but none of the other big DAWs have that capability, and none of the companies that make them have plans to enable processing on the GPUs.

For audio, for the vast majority of users with a reasonably modern computer, those GPUs are just a waste of money, period. And a buyer of the that Mac still has to pay for it.

I'm going to assume (i know, bad idea) that by several DAW's, that at least a few of those do not require an Apple machine. And that opens up a huge range of both consumer and workstation grade machines other than the mac pro that can do the job just as well for cheaper, to better for the same price. If they have still chosen the Mac Pro, it can either be attributed to its tiny size, or the fact that they wanted an Apple. I don't see the problem with that, north americans do it all the time with cars - SUV's in particular. How many families own SUV's where not only does a minivan cost less, it would actually do the job better? The SUV's come with off-roading capabilities (well, they kinda used to anyways) that are typically never used, cost more, worse on fuel, but get the "status" that a minivan does not provide.
The point is, nothing out there suits everyones needs. Not everyone chooses exactly what they need, nor do they do so objectively (Beats, anyone?).

Its also not like the D300's are a large chunk of the price of a M-P. Ram is worse, and its markup is ridiculous(nearly 2x market price).
Now, I still wouldn't buy it [even if I could afford it] b/c its apple, but i like how they built it. Small and powerful and quiet.

Luxmark will take both.

How often/quickly do the d700's drop from the 850mhz state? I recall a discussion in the original M-P thread involving some hefty reasoning over just how much if ever they would get to 850. I figured if they used the 7990 chips/bin they came from (it was discontinued) they would get a combined tdp near 375w, which would allow a decent use of near max boost.