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HereForTheHardware said: The RX580 GPU is old and slow, while the Vega II (Navi W5700X) is at least new, but middle-end at best. Perhaps they are hoping the absurd amount of VRAM compensates for slow compute? Either way, it gets crushed by Nv…
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The pricing is very interesting, and much cheaper than I'd expected, when you look close. First of all, CPU pricing is *surprising* - the cost of the chip upgrade from 8 to 28 cores is only about $300 higher than the difference in Intel's list pric…
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AppleInsider said:Back in the 1990s, there were no bricks-and-mortar Apple Stores. You had to buy Macs through specialist dealers or through big chain stores. The chains famously employed whatever the opposite of Geniuses is, and they all pushed…
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R Lubin said: Macintosh clone company, Power Computing sold their poorly made but inexpensive Mac clones solely online[...] I bought about a dozen of them for my company. They were great- cheaper and better than Apple's Macs at the time. So…
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SpamSandwich said: JustSomeGuy1 said: mobird said: As I have mentioned previously, we have been driving between our homes in Colorado and Arkansas for the past decade and have observed the installation of massive wind farms acro…
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mobird said: As I have mentioned previously, we have been driving between our homes in Colorado and Arkansas for the past decade and have observed the installation of massive wind farms across Kansas and Colorado. We make this drive 3-4 times…
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SpamSandwich said: toysandme said: SpamSandwich said: How many more millions of birds are these companies willing to kill and remove from our environment? Nowhere as many as cats kill. When a cat does it, it’s nature’s …
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auxio said: Rayz2016 said: The next article will take a closer look at how Apple was able to sneak past larger more entrenched silicon experts at Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung while the media doubted its progress and bet that rivals wou…
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It's true that right now the GPU situation for Macs is terrible. Gaming is thus badly hampered, when it's even possible. I expect that to change very quickly over the next three years or so, and not because Apple has any interest in gaming on the Ma…
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PickUrPoison said: JustSomeGuy1 said: PickUrPoison said: BigDann said: This reminds me of the Three Bears story! The Mac mini is too cold, the new MacPro is too hot! The 2013 is the not quite good enough! Apple swung har…
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tht said: JustSomeGuy1 said:Unfortunately, this Mac *still* hasn't shipped, whereas EPYC 2 is now readily available, with Zen-2 based Threadripper coming soon. While some people will still be unwilling to look at AMD products, I doubt tha…
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dysamoria said: JustSomeGuy1 said: hmurchison said:JSG1 - Thanks for the cleanup. I'm no Engineer admittedly but love to catch up every now and then. A few days ago I was looking some PCI-Sig videos about what they're doing wi…
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PickUrPoison said: BigDann said: This reminds me of the Three Bears story! The Mac mini is too cold, the new MacPro is too hot! The 2013 is the not quite good enough! Apple swung hard to the Animators & videographers with this des…
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hmurchison said:JSG1 - Thanks for the cleanup. I'm no Engineer admittedly but love to catch up every now and then. A few days ago I was looking some PCI-Sig videos about what they're doing with version 4, 5 and 6. The roadmap has incredibl…
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bobcubsfan said: Mac OS Catalina or Horta from Star Trek? Heh. First thing I say when I boot a new OS for the first time? " NO KILL I"
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hmurchison said: sdw2001 said: I can't get over what a monster this thing is. Apple's "pro" machines have always been more marketed to prosumers/power users rather than true workstation users. This machine changes everything. I'm …
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karmadave said: The new Mac Pro will largely appeal to Audio and Video professionals who's company foots the bill. A) it's not a Consumer machine and it's under-featured and overpriced compared to PC Workstations from Dell, HP, and Lenovo...…
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AppleExposed said: JustSomeGuy1 said: sdw2001 said: I can't get over what a monster this thing is. Apple's "pro" machines have always been more marketed to prosumers/power users rather than true workstation users. This machine cha…
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wozwoz said: I'd like to see the 2013 Mac Pro (cylinder) updated with Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, faster RAM, faster graphics cards ... not difficult to do - and in an amazingly compact and quiet form factor. It would be the Prosumer model. I just …
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sdw2001 said: I can't get over what a monster this thing is. Apple's "pro" machines have always been more marketed to prosumers/power users rather than true workstation users. This machine changes everything. I'm not up on PC workstation…