AMC, Regal, and other chains are pulling The Interview

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Did you go with the new Mac Pro? I thought about it but instead built an i7 4790k PC with 32 gigs of RAM and multiple SSD's on Win 8.1x64. I've had it up and running since Tuesday and it's insane how much data can be streamed from my drives while locked to video.

I looked at them pretty seriously, but I couldn't make the numbers work for what I need to do in the near future, so I maxed out an iMac and if I still need more processing, I can max out another iMac and still not hit the cost of a MacPro with similar cores and memory. Obviously there would be performance differences in the MacPro, but I have not even come close to stressing it interactively yet working with pretty heavy scene files even without the dual GPU. I do take a hit on final render times, but I am considering using a vendor for final renders in which case I probably wouldn't even need the second iMac.

I'm pretty happy with my choice, though the MacPros are so sleek and so fast. It was very tempting. If I had clients at my desk, I probably would have opted for the supercharged interactivity, but I don't. This is just for my own side projects.