Dude, stop being intentionally dense...
If you are pumping 300 cubic feet of air INTO the front of the chassis, the sheer positive pressure is going to force heated air out the back of the chassis, almost like Apple designed it that way...
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Dude, stop being intentionally dense...
If you are pumping 300 cubic feet of air INTO the front of the chassis, the sheer positive pressure is going to force heated air out the back of the chassis, almost like Apple designed it that way...
You're not running a successful company if your investments don't generate a profit over time. In other words: The cost in absolute terms is pretty much irrelevant as long as it allows you to make more money than you could without making this investment.
Just for reference:
Our entire company runs on seven virtualization hosts, each with specs comparable to a Mac Pro that's been pretty much maxed out in CPU and memory. Including the necessary storage we're easily talking car-level purchase costs for each such machine. In addition, the hardware costs are completely dwarfed by the required software license costs over the hardware lifetime.
But purchasing these hosts nearly halved compile times for our developers which alone almost recoups the hardware investment over the course of a single year; and that's not all we use these machines for. We spent supercar money on machines that will save us hypercar money, in addition to the actual profit they enable us to bring in. THAT is why companies like HPE, Lenovo, and now Apple, can demand huge amounts of money for their products: They know that the intended customers will earn a lot more than they spend.
As an individual you're entirely free to spend your money on a Mac Pro, just like you're free to purchase a Mack truck or a cruise ship. But if you're questioning the cost, you're probably not among those for whom the product was made.
Indeed, remember the cMP only actually had one 'exhaust' fan...all the others were at the front or in the middle, and I believe the new Mac Pro does have an exhaust blower?
EDIT - as evidenced below which is the image I was looking for!
You also might be surprised to know that a lot (most?) rackmount servers don't use exhaust fans, or only have them in the PSU, they do however have a big array of fans at the front or in the middle betwixt drives and board and a decent airflow path to the rear, but exhaust fans? not so much.
You can suck air through, you can blow air through, you can even suck and blow, the important bit is that it's moving through...that's not to say they coudln't move more air through with a different setup but as long as it's adequate then that's what matters, otherwise you might as well just ramp all your fans to max and tape a vacuum cleaner to the back as well just to be sure ;-)
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You really think what you said making sense? Lol
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Those servers are mainly for low cpu usage and dont even have display card.
Now that is a silly comment, and belies either a lack of knowledge and understanding, or deliberate intention to troll.
If it's the latter than I've no interest in continuing to discuss, if it's the former then I'd be happy to continue to engage in discussion, we might both learn something ;-)
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I think he's just trolling... or at least he ended up just trolling after his original complaint got picked apart. None of his replies actually address any responses he gets.
Yeah, he's definitely just trolling. Time to ignore.
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This thread has reached impressive levels of sad....
What on earth makes you think that's a notebook blower, look at the size of it, it's probably the size of a Mac Mini, or even close to a 12in Macbook footprint, would be curious to know the spec and CFM and full RPM.
Who said anything about RAID? Most high density compute clusters, whether in individual xU chassis, or blades will have little if any local storage*.
GPUs aren't the only component that generates heat, but that's a side issue, there are many render and compute farms are rack mounted with multiple GPUs.
So which is it? Lacking in knowledge or deliberately trolling?
*although yeah some do, 48 drives in the front of a chassis generate quite a bit of heat on their own!
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If you think a machine with 16 threads, 32GB Ram and only 256GB SSD and a 2 year old GPU is good value for money at $6000, then clearly you are the market for any crap Apple produce.
It's a stunning looking machine and clearly required a considerable amount of R&D, not to the extent of charging $3000 per machine extra. If it had been $4,000 in base configuration I think more people would have been able to swallow the pee poor power you get.
It's a stunning looking machine and clearly required a considerable amount of R&D, not to the extent of charging $3000 per machine extra. If it had been $4,000 in base configuration I think more people would have been able to swallow the pee poor power you get.
It only starts at $3395, enough to buy 3 Apple monitor stands
With an entry level CPU, 8GB RAM and a GPU that’s slower than intel integrated. Those 3400 is basically just the price of the chassis and main board. You should try harder.
Frame it the other way... the base spec is irrelevant, (almost) nobody who needs this machine will buy base spec. $6000 as a starting price for a machine with this level of expandability* and capability.
The base spec is poor value when you just look at the Cores and Ram. Find the other machines that can scale like this one and look at what they cost, spolier alert - it's roughly the same, and second spoiler, the base price is dwarfed by the cost of speccing up at that scale.
* the only annoying and slightly weird thing is that they're not offering a dual socket option.
Do you realize how a fan works? It sucks air in one side and pushes it out the other. It doesn't just suck air in and then...hold it captive?
It seems you’re not the intended market for this machine. There’s nothing wrong with that, don’t torture yourself with the pricing.
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