The funny thing is that the prices of these workstations are starting to get insane price levels that we saw for Next computers back in the 90's.
If a remember right, they didn't sell all that well because of that pricing. Perhaps Apple needs to learn from the past pricing mistakes of Steve Jobs (again) now that he's no longer with us?
The funny thing is that the prices of these workstations are starting to get insane price levels that we saw for Next computers back in the 90's. If a remember right, they didn't sell all that well because of that pricing.
It wasn't just pricing. They didn't run any other platform's software, and there was very little software produced for the platform. You could pay an arm and a leg on top of the limbs you'd already given up for the system price to get some Adobe applications, and that was most of what was available. The system was superior in a lot of ways, but it didn't offer you the ability to do anything you couldn't do in some other, cheaper way. Even at price parity, they'd have been a hard sell.
What kind of use would you have for one of these overpriced monsters? I can see use for general purpose processors, i5 and i7 run the business world. An multicore Xeon monsters with dozens of cores for virtual server farms. But I just can't think of a use off hand for same classes of Xeon processors in desktop workstations.
My first thought is CAD and Animation rendering but the grunt work of those would be handed off to custom GPU cards for the actual work.
What kind of use would you have for one of these overpriced monsters? I can see use for general purpose processors, i5 and i7 run the business world. An multicore Xeon monsters with dozens of cores for virtual server farms. But I just can't think of a use off hand for same classes of Xeon processors in desktop workstations.
My first thought is CAD and Animation rendering but the grunt work of those would be handed off to custom GPU cards for the actual work.
Since you're talking about processors, I'll assume you are taking about the Mac Pro rather than the monitors. They are there to be the workstation you install those custom GPU cards in, so they're not bottlenecked by the computer hardware.
What kind of use would you have for one of these overpriced monsters? I can see use for general purpose processors, i5 and i7 run the business world. An multicore Xeon monsters with dozens of cores for virtual server farms. But I just can't think of a use off hand for same classes of Xeon processors in desktop workstations.
Take your pick; dual processors are required to get enough PCIe lanes and enough memory slots which limits them to Xeons. With that much memory and the intended application, ECC is a requirement also.
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True 6K display (Score:5, Funny)
$5K for the display, $1K for the stand.
Some Apple supporters are going to be left without a leg to stand on.
Re:True 6K display (Score:2)
The funny thing is that the prices of these workstations are starting to get insane price levels that we saw for Next computers back in the 90's.
If a remember right, they didn't sell all that well because of that pricing. Perhaps Apple needs to learn from the past pricing mistakes of Steve Jobs (again) now that he's no longer with us?
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The funny thing is that the prices of these workstations are starting to get insane price levels that we saw for Next computers back in the 90's.
If a remember right, they didn't sell all that well because of that pricing.
It wasn't just pricing. They didn't run any other platform's software, and there was very little software produced for the platform. You could pay an arm and a leg on top of the limbs you'd already given up for the system price to get some Adobe applications, and that was most of what was available. The system was superior in a lot of ways, but it didn't offer you the ability to do anything you couldn't do in some other, cheaper way. Even at price parity, they'd have been a hard sell.
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What kind of use would you have for one of these overpriced monsters? I can see use for general purpose processors, i5 and i7 run the business world. An multicore Xeon monsters with dozens of cores for virtual server farms. But I just can't think of a use off hand for same classes of Xeon processors in desktop workstations.
My first thought is CAD and Animation rendering but the grunt work of those would be handed off to custom GPU cards for the actual work.
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What kind of use would you have for one of these overpriced monsters? I can see use for general purpose processors, i5 and i7 run the business world. An multicore Xeon monsters with dozens of cores for virtual server farms. But I just can't think of a use off hand for same classes of Xeon processors in desktop workstations.
My first thought is CAD and Animation rendering but the grunt work of those would be handed off to custom GPU cards for the actual work.
Since you're talking about processors, I'll assume you are taking about the Mac Pro rather than the monitors. They are there to be the workstation you install those custom GPU cards in, so they're not bottlenecked by the computer hardware.
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What kind of use would you have for one of these overpriced monsters? I can see use for general purpose processors, i5 and i7 run the business world. An multicore Xeon monsters with dozens of cores for virtual server farms. But I just can't think of a use off hand for same classes of Xeon processors in desktop workstations.
Take your pick; dual processors are required to get enough PCIe lanes and enough memory slots which limits them to Xeons. With that much memory and the intended application, ECC is a requirement also.