MP 6,1 Time to get rid of trashcan

[caner0]

Due to problems on HEVC playback, I have to replace my 2013 Trashcan Mac Pro, 4-core, 96 GB, D300, although I am very happy with that. With which product did you replaced the trashcan?

A client is offering 2020 5k iMac (base model) to me to replace my computer. Does this make sense? I am running this computer 7 24 and my workflow is mostly depend on VMware Fusion and virtualization. I am wondering if iMac can withstand against this kind of sustainable load?

 

[h9826790]

Sounds OK to me.

The cooling is doubtful, but VMFusion isn't that stressful on CPU and cooling. Which should be OK.

The CPU will be way faster than you existing Xeon. Apart from ECC, it can do whatever your existing CPU can do in macOS, and even more.

You can also upgrade the memory to 128GB by yourself. So, memory capacity isn't a problem even you run quite a few VM at the same time.

 

[h9826790]

Anyway, you have no interest to add eGPU? From memory, someone mentioned that you can add eGPU, then activate HWAccel to play back HEVC videos.