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Re: Mac Pro

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Post by ScottBurson »

rsync wrote: post #272
dman wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could buy a HP Z820 with liquid cooling, dual xeon processor, a fusion io card, three workstation gpus, and 12 sata drives :)

Thanks for that tip. I might just do that. Perhaps reload my mac pro with snow leopard one last time, get another year or so out of it, and then "switch" to linux on an old school workstation like this. Hate to abandon all of my mac VMs, though. I don't think a non-mac vmware host can run mac VM guests... without a lot of mucking around, that is...

I'm fairly sure I've seen people run OS X as a vmWare guest on either Windows or Linux.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by ScottBurson »

rsync wrote: post #272
dman wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could buy a HP Z820 with liquid cooling, dual xeon processor, a fusion io card, three workstation gpus, and 12 sata drives :)

Thanks for that tip. I might just do that. Perhaps reload my mac pro with snow leopard one last time, get another year or so out of it, and then "switch" to linux on an old school workstation like this. Hate to abandon all of my mac VMs, though. I don't think a non-mac vmware host can run mac VM guests... without a lot of mucking around, that is...

I'm fairly sure I've seen people run OS X as a vmWare guest on either Windows or Linux.

Re: Mac Pro

#333

Post by ScottBurson »

rsync wrote: post #272
dman wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could buy a HP Z820 with liquid cooling, dual xeon processor, a fusion io card, three workstation gpus, and 12 sata drives :)

Thanks for that tip. I might just do that. Perhaps reload my mac pro with snow leopard one last time, get another year or so out of it, and then "switch" to linux on an old school workstation like this. Hate to abandon all of my mac VMs, though. I don't think a non-mac vmware host can run mac VM guests... without a lot of mucking around, that is...

I'm fairly sure I've seen people run OS X as a vmWare guest on either Windows or Linux.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by duncan_bayne »

It's disturbing to see so many people drooling over this hardware. Granted, it's tasty-looking, but:

- http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple

- http://www.ifixit.com/blog/2011/01/20/apples-diabolical-plan...

- http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2337939,00.asp

Give some thought to the above before buying an Apple device, please.

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by [deleted] »

mehwoot wrote: post #329

It's totally tubular. The new OS is called mavericks ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location) ). Did apple suddenly become a bunch of surfers?

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Re: Mac Pro

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Post by [deleted] »

potatolicious wrote: post #45
stormbrew wrote: post #36

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Are you suggesting the Mac Pro ever had mass appeal? This strikes me as the opposite, abandoning the 'actual' professionals in favour of a weird mass market design.

I don't see how this is a mass market design. It's a bunch of Xeons cores paired with ECC RAM, stupid-fast storage, and way more GPU power than any reasonable person can use. And probably priced to match. Weird industrial design != mass market.

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Re: Mac Pro

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Post by codex »

duncan_bayne wrote: post #335

It's disturbing to see so many people drooling over this hardware. Granted, it's tasty-looking, but: - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple - http://www.ifixit.com/blog/2011/01/20/apples-diabolical-plan... - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2337939,00.asp Give some thought to the above before buying an Apple device, please.

These are critiques of Apple's other products and software, but none of them apply to this specific hardware. Are there specific criticisms of this Mac Pro hardware?

Re: Mac Pro

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Post by bingaling »

drivingmenuts wrote: post #262

It's light on RAM slots and monitor connections. Four ram slots? That maxes out at 64 Gig of RAM. What happened to the old 128 Gig? Sorry, dropping $999 ea. on a single monitor, much less multiple monitors, is just stupid. The difference at the screen between a Thunderbolt display and a display costing half as much isn't enough to warrant the extra cost. The former machine had a visually distinct box with tons of spa…

It should support 32GB dimms, so 128GB.
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