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Who could’ve predicted the year they bring back the Mac Pro is the year AMD leapfrogs Intel though.
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> I'm struggling to see why I'd take a $5000 (realistically since it's Apple more like $6500-7000) machine over a $2000 machine running Fedora unless I need to develop for iOS [emphasis mine]. IIRC, the problem was that Apple left those people (and other professionals in the Apple ecosystem) with literally no good options.
I'd argue at that price they still don't have a good option merely an option. $6k for an 8 core tower with 32GB of RAM base and a 256GB SSD (my Thinkpad has 32GB of RAM and more more nvme m2 storage than that). So it's less powerful in the base config with half the RAM of the machine I built last year for £2000 (about $2600 currency to currency, I suspect you could do it for $2200 if you built it in the states). Whic…
This is a workstation for complex engineering/design/research use, not a general purpose desktop. You buy a workstation when you need as much compute power and expandability as possible, irregardless of price.
You can find similar workstations on the PC side as well (e.g. a Lenovo P920 or HP Z840). And they tend to be roughly as expensive.