@rikyxxx Jesus Christ? LoL

@itimjim Adobe Mercury Engine based products would run faster on either Windows or OSX. Never same. I'm saying they run faster on Windows. I meant performance benchmarking on computing intensive tasks such as adding effects and rendering.

Windows version of Apple CS6 apps use CUDA. OSX version of the suite uses OpenCL. They are different implementations. How can they have same performance benchmarking? :)

Frankly this is the first time that I hear some think performance of Adobe CS apps is same on both Windows and OSX. I find it hilarious.

I wonder if this system has enough specs for decent editing with Premier... or even as a Hackintosh....

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/vizios-ivy-bridge-all-in-ones-get-official/

@subco That's the thing. We are stuck for now :(

I need both OSX only app(s) and non-OSX apps, and I can carry only one machine around. I can do Android app coding in OSX, but no iPhone app coding in Windows. So I'm stuck with MBP for now although I'm not a big fan of Apple.

Hopefully it's not like Hotel California.

@ahbleza This post is about macbook though.

I don't like Apple, but I must say... newly announced MBP models always look great.

@alcomposer did you try Smoke, how does it deal with avchd?

Edit: looks like they are having problems with .mts files: http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-smoke/smoke-2013/importing-mts-files/

Not cheap:$3.500

OpenCL is a standard maintained by the Khronos Group, the same group that maintains OpenGL. OpenCL was originally developed by Apple, but that's no more relevant today than the fact the SGI originally developed OpenGL.

Nvidia released CUDA before OpenCL was finished. When Adobe was working on CS5 only CUDA was available:

This is from March 2011:

Q: Apple is using ATI and a similar technology to CUDA called OpenCL. Will Adobe embrace OpenCL in the future?

When CS5 was under development and I showed the Technology Sneak Peek, OpenCL wasn’t even ratified or finished. CS5 wouldn’t have had GPU acceleration at all had it been based on OpenCL. Even today (March, 2011), we don’t have a lot of real OpenCL applications. Adobe is continuing to evaluate OpenCL for future development but today Adobe’s GPU acceleration technology is based on CUDA from NVIDIA.

http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2011/03/premiere-pro-on-a-mac-%E2%80%93-what-is-the-truth.html

Whether or not you get an OpenCL implementation on Windows is entirely down to whether your graphics card manufacturer provides one, ATI/AMD and Nvidia both do. Adobe could support OpenCL on Windows too, but I don't believe they have yet.

@leonbeas: I saw the MBP-RD the other day. I'm not gonna go for it. Will likely go with either a new Imac w/Ivy Bridge or HackMachine in the future. Apple has been extremely durable as well and they have that going for them even though its irreplaceable/irrepairable. I just can't see myself doing 3D work on a 15.4" on the road.

@stonebat

Get the film.

Btw, most of the companies are just goddamn stupid. All they need is to have glossy sticky tape on screen while it is standing on the shelf. After this you can just put it in intended place, I mean the bin.

I'm just glad the retina mac is here, even if I don't get one. Sure is nice to know that tech is still progressing at Apple. Retina displays only have one direction to go now . . . cheaper ;)

Ok, now, we are in 2013, and my 2006's Mac Pro is near of dead. Kernel panic and freezing screen make daily my job so frustrating. Shortly at 30 degres every hour (!) I need to make hard reboot. And working with noisy fanes is a nightmare. I live in france and in Europe at this time you can't buy a Mac Pro. So I don't want to go PC system. What can i do now between fall and his hypthotetic "amazing new Mac Pro of my ass" ? Am I the only one here ? How do you do ?

@gabilourson @Oedipax yes, and he has a VERY nice case to build it in :-D