![]() and Programs, an SSD as a scratch disk for Davinci Resolve, a 1 Terabyte Seagate drive for local document storage, and an LG Optical drive that reads and writes C.D.'s, D.V.D.'s, and Blu-Rays. ![]() I did go a little overboard, but for $2500 I wound up with:Ī 10 core, 20 thread i9 processor, a motherboard with 2 Thunderbolt ports, 64 GBytes of Ram (expandable to 128), 4 internal drives including an NVME drive for the O.S. Based on that experiment I decided to take a leap of faith and build my new system. Wonderful performance, beautiful looks, everything working about as I expected. I decided to sacrifice my Samsung Series 7 slate PC (with it's i5 processor and Wacom digitizer) to experiment. It's based on Ubuntu and emphasizes being lite, fast, and privacy focused. It is described by reviewers as the most Macintosh like of all the Linux distributions. I did some checking on the Davinci forums and discovered the ELEMENTARY O.S. ![]() Then I remembered that Davinci runs on Linux. So no matter what I did I would be paying too much, about $2000, for a system (i7 processor) that was minimum for what I was hoping for. Newer chips and motherboard configurations are untested and you're on your own. I even briefly considered a Hackintosh, but when Hackintoshing you're stuck with previous generation hardware that is known to work. If I did go the used machine route, or even a new machine, I would still have to purchase an external GPU box that could be connected to the main device via Thunderbolt, as Davinci makes heavy use of the GPU for image processing. Davinci Resolve requires an i7 processor minimum, and an i9 is reccomended. I also looked into buying a used iMac or Mini, but all the machines I saw on Craig's List were i5 processors. But Apple has notoriously made their machines very difficult for the end user to upgrade. I looked into buying a new iMac, or even a Mac Mini, and possibly upgrading the ram myself. Thus began my dilemma.īuying a new Mac Pro, or even an iMac Pro, was off the table, too expensive. Last year I bought a 4K Pocket Cinema camera and wanted to run Davinci Resolve as my video editing software, which required more horsepower than my aging iMac could muster. Ironically it was Cheetah 3D that made me want to get back into Macintosh and so I acquired a used Intel iMac from my local university (purchased from an auction web site at a greatly reduced price). When that machine wasn't quite enough, I built my own computer with a Pentium processor and moved to Windows, where I stayed for many years. I had a 400 Mhz Blueberry iMac back in the day. I've owned a few different computers over the years. I want to apologize in advance for this post, as it is useless for most of the Cheetah 3D community, but I was facing a dilemma and I wanted to share how I solved it.
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