Q: Using Mac Pro In Multiple Rooms In House
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Dec 26, 2013 10:01 PMby Grant Bennet-Alder,The issue is there is only the Boot drive (SSD) inside, unless you have very low requirements for file storage. Most "Pro" Users are going to attach ThunderBolt drive enclosures to get a working system.
Do you really need that sort of compute power moveable room-to-room? How about three MacBooks or Mac Minis instead?
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Dec 27, 2013 4:46 AMby TechManNYC,I need to buy a Mac Pro for audio engineering/recording and I program Java/Objective C. That is why I'm getting the pro. Might even do some video editing. In any case, I would love to keep the mac pro in my audio room and then use it at my treadmill desk as well
I'm a little confused about the 'Boot Drive' issue. I want to know what's possible with Thunderbolt 2 optical cables (long distances) as well.
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Dec 27, 2013 9:44 AMby Grant Bennet-Alder,Audio and Video will benefit from the Mac Pro hardware. But you will also need multiple Drives to hold the large files, and these need to be fairly fast.
Long ThunderBolt cables (which are fiber) will be getting a little cheaper, but they are still frightneningly expensive.
Program development, compiling, and testing is not especially processor, graphics, or I/O intensive. It can be done on anything.
Screen Sharing on another Mac works remakably well, and is surprisng fast (but not quite immediate).
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Dec 27, 2013 9:51 AMby varjak paw,Screen Sharing won't work for audio production since the audio isn't tranferred to the remote computer. TMNYC would need to run audio from the Mac Pro to each room, probably not very practical though of course it's up to him. Remote control would do for programming, though.
Regards.
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Dec 27, 2013 8:50 PMby TechManNYC,I had heard the mac pro can drive multiple 4k displays. When the prices come down, I would love to someday have multiple 4k displays in multiple rooms. But forgetting that, multiple 1900x1200 resolution monitors for now in different rooms for programming/web surfing/watching movies. High resolution and no lag are important to make work environment feel good.
Is this relevant and does it work well? http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5019
I don't care if all monitors show the same thing. I'm not expecting others to use at same time. Also, the audio stuff will be done near the mac pro itself as the main station/room. Not expecting to do audio/video remotely, however, really should be able to with thunderbolt cables right?
Seems like we are missing something here.
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Dec 28, 2013 8:07 AMby Grant Bennet-Alder,Those feature continue to work, but are no longer the default, as this class of features have been IOS-ified so that it can be just like the iPhone. This article supercedes the one you cited in order to obfuscate any good features remaining:
OS X: Using multiple displays in Mavericks
Corning 10 meter optical ThunderBolt cables are available at the Apple online store for US$329:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/HE125VC/A/thunderbolt-33-ft10-m-optical-cable- by-corning?fnode=51
30 meter cables are available from other sources.
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