Good point. That raises the question as to whether people who've never visited HP.com are seeing Z-Series ads.
If HP is paying for ad placement when the browser history says "Mac Pro", then it's still brilliant.
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MP All Models What are some practical uses of the fully spec'ed Mac Pro 2019?
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If HP is paying for ad placement when the browser history says "Mac Pro", then it's still brilliant.
Apple better be sure their store can handle the extra digits. They wouldn't want a typo that only charges 99999 GBP.I dare not ask the cost of that rig.......
I'm pretty sure they have that covered. And yes, given a mid-spec Dell box runs for over 100k, I expect the top-notch Mac Pro with full RAM, GPUs, etc. to be more than that.
That would be fun thread. I'll start by predicting that a maxed out mMP 7,1 will be $56,000 USD on Apple's config page.
You could open 10 tabs in Chrome with 1.5TB of RAM.
But seriously, all valid points in this thread. I'll add another one, our database research group is currently working with in-memory databases, so whatever is usually written to a disk is stored in-memory here. That's where lots and lots of RAM comes in handy.
Datascience projects have been mentioned, but depends on the use-case. I'm taking delivery of a new Dell box this week for my Deep Learning projects. I need GPUs to run my stuff, so I got 4x V100 SMX2 NVIDIA GPUs with a total of 128GB on the GPUs. I need regular RAM for a few things (really not that much) and ended up with 384GB RAM in the box. You can see someone who relies in RAM will require much more.
Anything database with a significant volume of data. Going to disk is sloooooow, you want everything to stay in RAM so your hit cache percent is near perfect.
That said, MacOS wouldn't be my preferred platform for a database server but it's true regardless.
Agreed. The 2019 MP is made for shops running VFX software which costs $10K/seat. The MP will be the cheapest part of the equation.
Just as a maxed out 2009 MacPro seemed goo goo eyed overkill ten years ago, but is now pretty much land fill fodder, so will be the 2019 mMP 10 years from now.... kinda worthless.
Modern workstations aren't really that fast, there's still plenty of waiting going on, what they are is faster than the previous generation- but still relatively slow.
Modern workstations aren't really that fast, there's still plenty of waiting going on, what they are is faster than the previous generation- but still relatively slow.
The longevity of any workstation is dependent on a number of factors, and 10 years is a long time. That said, the mMP 7,1 design lends itself to a long-ish lifespan, starting with a beefy PSU, easy access to internals and a focus on cooling capacity. In my use case, 8K video post, I should be in good shape as long as the 7,1 can host the latest GPU tech without throttling/bottlenecking.
Personally, Im going to run bootcamp and try to get good FPS in PUBG.
Not gonna happen. In order to get good FPS in PUBG, you need at least the two Nvidia boxes they ship with the drive constellation software. One box for the engine, one for the physics. What's $500k per box for a high FPS count in PUBG...