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Yes? I love my wireless keyboard and mouse, although they run off of AA batteries so I don't need to recharge them.
In this case, is the freedom of wireless worth the hassle+cost of batteries?
Who hurt you, Ben?
New Mac Pro Tech Specs
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Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs
#282Please forgive my ignorance but the specs on this are just average in my opinion. Why would I choose this over a custom build pc with almost the same, if not better, components?
My experience with all apple products at work has been quite bad so I might be a little biased.
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#283Slightly off-topic, but who here uses a HEDT (high-end desktop) or workstation computer for software development? Does it make a significant difference in comparison with a standard business laptop?
My company provides a pretty standard laptop, but they rarely have more than 2 cores. In native app development, Android Studio and Xcode are severely bottlenecked by 2 cores. The difference between my laptop and my Mac Mini (6 cores) is astounding. The difference between a build taking 6x minutes and 1x minutes is more than just 1/6 because it goes from "Well, guess I'll check email/messenger/HN real quick." to taki…
Your employer supplied you with the wrong tools for the job. Explain why you would need a more powerful computer and you'll probably get it.
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#284Imagine having to hibernate a 1.5TB RAM machine :D
FWIW by default desktops are configured to just sleep (hibernatemode=0 = suspend to ram).
Laptops default to persisting memory & sleeping (hibernatemode=3, a sleep which falls back to hibernation in case of complete power loss e.g. run out of battery). Both can be configured to regular hibernation (hibernatemode=25, persist memory then shut down).
Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs
#285At the base configuration (single 8-core Xeon W) with 256GB SSD and 32GB RAM for $6000, it's about twice what it should be. I could build a faster dual Xeon Silver series with more cores, Nvidia graphics, much larger SSD and 32GB RAM in a nicer case for around $3000. So, that Apple logo and macOS are the other $3000.
I love how any post I make that is critical of something Apple always gets me some negative points here on Hacker News - I actually made a point of showing my tech class this social phenomenon a few weeks back and we had a good discussion that explored possible reasons why it happens.
A similar rig from HP or Lenovo is going to cost you more.
Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs
#286Not impressive. New MacPro hosts only PCIe gen3 when all PC motherboards are on gen4 already. New MacPro is old and it did not come out yet.
Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs
#287Surprised no one(?) commented on the case yet - looks like they came to their senses and went back to the "old" case design. I've been seriously considering a second-hand, early Mac pro - just for the case. Not sure if they fit regular/modern psus - but those cases were very nice. Good riddance to the trash can design... Now, if these wouldn't be priced like a car, and came with some proper AMD cpus ...
How many fans does this case have?
I thought the trash can was cool because the whole thing was one big fan. Never owned one though.
Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs
#288Slightly off-topic, but who here uses a HEDT (high-end desktop) or workstation computer for software development? Does it make a significant difference in comparison with a standard business laptop?
Oh yes, it makes a _huge_ difference. Most modern laptops use constrained, low power CPUs and GPUs. They are dog slow. Even my 5 year old desktop is substantially faster (like, builds take half the time kind of difference) compared to my Possibly the only laptops that could compare to desktops are gaming laptops, and I know developers who buy things like the Razer gaming laptop to try and get desktop-like performance.
Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs
#289Not impressive. New MacPro hosts only PCIe gen3 when all PC motherboards are on gen4 already. New MacPro is old and it did not come out yet.
It's not targeting you.
Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs
#290Please forgive my ignorance but the specs on this are just average in my opinion. Why would I choose this over a custom build pc with almost the same, if not better, components? My experience with all apple products at work has been quite bad so I might be a little biased.
If you don't get why you'd want to buy this, then it's not aimed at you.
"Why would I pay AWS to host a Virtual Machine for me when I can get a physical host on Hetzner for the same price, if not less, that's 5x better?" -- the point has truly been missed.