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You can buy and modify a Toyota Supra to go faster than a Ferrari for much less money. Thats why nobody buys Ferrari's - there is just no point. And people buying Ferraris are just stupid for wasting their money when they could have a Toyota Supra instead.
The article is just about the Mac Pro price. Conclusion: it's a fair price.
I don't get why he speced the E5 CPU vs. the i7 but then also didn't use ECC RAM.
>"The only ECC-supporting motherboard I could find compatible with the CPU has no USB3, only supports 1600MHz RAM and only offers 3 PCIe slots."
I'm not sure what the take-away is here.
You can buy and modify a Toyota Supra to go faster than a Ferrari for much less money. Thats why nobody buys Ferrari's - there is just no point. And people buying Ferraris are just stupid for wasting their money when they could have a Toyota Supra instead.
I'd like to see this replicated based on benchmarks when the Pro gets here, and compare it to a real Hackintosh.
Personally I'm not excited about a Mac Pro with not much more CPU power than an iMac, other thant it is quite nifty. It's also nice to see workstations a little less dead than I'm used to, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the competitors.
After reading the article, my takeaway was: 1. You can't build a Mac Pro equivalent with off the shelf parts (yet). 2. You can get kinda close, but you're not saving that much money. 3. The less close you're willing to get, the less money you'll spend, which is absolutely not interesting, surprising or relevant. In summary, the new Mac Pro is pretty awesomely priced and I'm going to order one for my lead dev.
Without thunderbolt.
Without dual ethernet.
Without ECC ram.
Without bluetooth.
Without wifi.
The guy is using 4GB GPUs when comparing to the Pro's 2GB. Stating the obvious, but price is a big extrapolation of multiple apples to oranges comparisons. I'd like to see this replicated based on benchmarks when the Pro gets here, and compare it to a real Hackintosh.
You can buy and modify a Toyota Supra to go faster than a Ferrari for much less money. Thats why nobody buys Ferrari's - there is just no point. And people buying Ferraris are just stupid for wasting their money when they could have a Toyota Supra instead.
My take on the article is that its saying; you can buy a Toyota Supra and modify it but for about the same amount of money you could just get a Ferrari instead.
You can certainly spec a PC with the same amount of processing power for much less than $3000