As usual, the HN headline is misleading: it should read "Mac Mini Pro".
Oh wait, what?
Mac Pro
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Re: Mac Pro
#402Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you want the backlight to stay on for a while, longer than default? Genuinely curious.
because you're in Siberia, it's 1:00 am, it's dark, you are drunk and need more time to plug that damn thing into the right whole. Genuine answer as I see it.
In that case it's a given that you will continue to shake the thing, intentionally or not, and the ports will continue to be lit.
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#403Not to fork the discussion, but: I'm thinking of putting together a new (Linux) PC for my needs (which are mainly number-crunching, photo processing, etc.). How much of the tech in this Mac Pro is available today to build one? I'm not sure I've seen any PCIe SSDs, for example. How about Thunderbolt 2?
PCIe SSDs are available from a number of vendors. Fusion-IO is probably the most well-known.
Re: Mac Pro
#404Not to fork the discussion, but: I'm thinking of putting together a new (Linux) PC for my needs (which are mainly number-crunching, photo processing, etc.). How much of the tech in this Mac Pro is available today to build one? I'm not sure I've seen any PCIe SSDs, for example. How about Thunderbolt 2?
Just a couple months ago, we built a similarly specced 1TB SSD raid using an expensive controller and 4 256 GB drives for a multipass batch processing job that we do. It gets about 1GB/sec read and write performance and cost about $1k altogether. A controller that can max out the PCI bus is about $300 alone.
The major benefit we found is that the higher random access speeds allow us to multiplex our jobs without completely thrashing the old RAID array that we replaced.
But it sucks that there are no PCI solutions for what we needed. OCZ had a couple cards but they were out of date and enterprise priced.
I think what we really need is some kind of slot for internal flash the same way DIMMs are slotted, maybe even have the controller and flash chips physically separated for more fine grained upgrades or have the SSD controller embedded in the motherboard chipset.
The weird 9.5mm enclosure and sata cables that SSDs currently use is some kind awkward weening phase off of spinning platters that needs to go away. Even single SSDs are starting to saturate SATA3 and the SATA specs aren't keeping up.
Hopefully a new trend in workstations that look like the Mac Pro will come along the same way that many "Ultrabooks" look vaguely like MacBook Airs. At which point we'll hopefully get more sensible SSD and interconnect management.
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#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
A USB jack can fit into an RJ45. Still, there is something of a problem in that sometimes people plug things in while the power is off, and computers are often kept tucked away in dim corners. Looking at the machine from an angle, it's not always obvious which connectors are where, especially if you're not a techy who could name ports in their sleep.
That sounds like a plea for LED illuminated ports... like the Mac Pro will have.
They can't make the proper port glow when you get the cable close to it?
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#406Copywriting and product-debate aside, that's some pretty impressive frontend presentation. From what I can tell from the minified JS, they're using Require.JS for code organization, their own jQuery-like utility toolkit they call Apple Core, fully pre-rendered text everywhere, and javascript that plays and pauses two copies of the HTML5 video, one backwards and one forwards, shuffling their opacities for seamless tra…
Posting minified JS is pretty useless. Open up Chrome inspector tools and use pretty print to actually read it: http://i.imgur.com/PHUaDSU.png
Why would you post a screenshot of source code? I don't understand.
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#407I'm pretty bummed about the new Mac Pro, I really want / need my dev work station purchase this summer to have a Haswell generation CPU, plus NVidia Cuda support. Which this seems to lack.
(context, I'm doing a lot of Dev work on high peformance numerical algorithms, and the fewer machines i need to test all the different substrates, the better.)
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#408I love this new device. I suspect I will buy one. But it doesn't solve my "need a new mac pro" problem. Right now my 2009 octo mac pro, with six displays attached, plays three roles: - it is my high end desktop workstation, with three primary high resolution (2560x1600) displays. - it is my HTPC, with one of the six monitors strung into another room entirely. - it is my office NAS, with four internal 3TB disks So, th…
Your first two sentences sum up the situation for me as well. It looks like a nice way to quietly drive a bunch of high-resolution monitors, but I still need new workstation.
Maybe I'll see something I can use at SC13 in November. An updated CX-1 (which I guess would be -2) would be as nice as it is unlikely.
Re: Mac Pro
#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are critiques of Apple. In buying a Mac Pro, you're lending financial support to a company that does the things spelled out in those articles.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is an objective trend that you're pointing out and it's a legitimate basis to use for predicting the style of any future Apple device. A company's product launches aren't discrete probabilistic events like tosses of a coin -- they tend to follow patterns... [Edit]: Man, I didn't even say I supported/cared about this manufacturing aspect (hint: I don't) and I'm already g…
> Man, I didn't even say I supported/cared about this
> manufacturing aspect (hint: I don't) and I'm already
> getting downvoted...
Cognitive dissonance FTW. When people make a tradeoff decision that involves an entity with a provable history of unethical behaviour (patent lawsuits anyone?), they'd rather not be reminded of it in public.
This from a Spotify and Google user, note. I'm not saying that tradeoff decisions are necessarily wrong, just that my theory is that sensitivity about them is why you're getting downvoted.
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#410Earlier quoted context omitted.
What the hell is wrong with you? The 'if it were android' bit just shows how completely Apple has made us expect the web to not be open. The whole fucking point of web standards is that it doesn't matter what you browse from - if they were conformed to. But no, apple violates them every which way (and gets praised for not being the shittastic company it is to boot) and fucktards like you just accept that 'sure, apple…
If not for the specific nature of the second sentence, I would be intrigued that someone had gone through the trouble of writing a cursing troll-bot for HN. But since no Turing-test-passing bot would use such language, I just feel bad for the IRL friends of this miserable human troll.
It's disappointing because I agree with the factual content, what little there is, but disagree with calling everyone a "fucktard".