What I've done with my MP has made up for the cost of it. I don't know how you're really one to decide whether the machines are working for people. It's a slick way of judging how people spend their money.
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What I've done with my MP has made up for the cost of it. I don't know how you're really one to decide whether the machines are working for people. It's a slick way of judging how people spend their money.
What I've done with my MP has made up for the cost of it. I don't know how you're really one to decide whether the machines are working for people. It's a slick way of judging how people spend their money.
I'm not passing judgement... just summarizing the results of this admittedly poor survey.
Yeah, but we might be misunderstanding??? When someone answers: "Video Editing" or "Web Dev." Is that for money? I would guess that it is. Or are you assuming only "Revenue"?
Porn is a legitimate industry.....uh....I mean....what was the question again senator?
Actually it is. I went to high school with a guy who was 2 grades behind me. He started making websites and now brings home checks with quite a few zeros every month.
I'm not sure what you are asking but I would hope this was sufficiently clear to most people... and a clear indication of who's generating revenue from their Mac Pro and who isn't.
Revenue:
- No revenue (this machine is used for hobby stuff only)
- No revenue yet (this machine will hopefully start generating me revenue)
- Part-time revenue (some of the cycles go towards generating revenue)
- Full-time revenue (this machine is exclusively used for revenue generating activities)
At any rate, it's interesting.
Machine:
- 2009 Octo MP (2.66)
Location:
- Home
Purchased by:
- Me (actually, hasn't been purchased yet... waiting for my ADC membership to be verified)
Revenue:
- No revenue (this machine won't be used for hobby stuff only)
Primary Workload: (please select just two and rank them in order!)
- Scientific/mathematical modelling
- Gaming
- 2009 Octo MP (2.66)
Location:
- Home
Purchased by:
- Me (actually, hasn't been purchased yet... waiting for my ADC membership to be verified)
Revenue:
- No revenue (this machine won't be used for hobby stuff only)
Primary Workload: (please select just two and rank them in order!)
- Scientific/mathematical modelling
- Gaming
If I can get the money together by next year I'll get a 2.93 GHz octocore with 12 GB RAM from OWC and four 1 TB HDDs in RAID 10 to make a near-feature-length animated movie.
Machine:
733 MHz DA G4.
Location:
My basement.
Purchased by:
My teacher. I got it for free.
Revenue:
None.
Primary Workload:
Serving the house with our iTunes library
Light PS work
Machine:
733 MHz DA G4.
Location:
My basement.
Purchased by:
My teacher. I got it for free
.Revenue:
None.
Primary Workload:
Serving the house with our iTunes library
Light PS work
There you go. My machine specs are in my signature.
Machine:
- 2009 Quad MP
Location:
- Work/Home
Purchased by:
- Self owned business
Revenue:
- more than 250K
Primary Workload:
- Software Engineering
Machine:
- 2009 Quad MP
Location:
- Work/Home
Purchased by:
- Self owned business
Revenue:
- more than 250K
Primary Workload:
- Software Engineering
-in that case, part-time revenue for video and audio editing and full-time revenue for number crunching, both different purposes but revenue earning channels.
VR, That's what I meant:
For me:
For me:
Machine: 2006 MP Octad (and many other Wintel / *nix workstations)
Location: SOHO
Purchased by: Money
Revenue: Of course.
Workload #1~1000: Anything anyone will pay for: Music, Art, Technical Writing, Software Design, Hardware Design, Video, Animation, etc..
Workload #1001~: Anything fun or interesting: MR Posting, (Historical, Religious, Economical, Commerce-ial) Research & Analysis, Music, Art, Video, Animation, etc..
Location: SOHO
Purchased by: Money
Revenue: Of course.
Workload #1~1000: Anything anyone will pay for: Music, Art, Technical Writing, Software Design, Hardware Design, Video, Animation, etc..
Workload #1001~: Anything fun or interesting: MR Posting, (Historical, Religious, Economical, Commerce-ial) Research & Analysis, Music, Art, Video, Animation, etc..
Machine: 2009 MP Octo 2.93Ghz
Location: Home Office (Right Now in my condo soon to be in my house)
Purchased By: Me
Revenue: Full Time
Primary Workload #1: Video work
Primary Workload #2: Photo Editing
Location: Home Office (Right Now in my condo soon to be in my house)
Purchased By: Me
Revenue: Full Time
Primary Workload #1: Video work
Primary Workload #2: Photo Editing
Machine: 2008 MP Octo
Location: Home "Office" next door to my real office with far more serious hardware.
Purchased By: Me
Revenue: Very Part Time
Primary Workload #1: Statistics/Modeling (School/Work)
Primary Workload #2: Audio (Hobby)
Primary Workload #3: So I can run a proper amount of monitors
I think that regardless of the results of this "survey", you cannot make a proper conclusion. The same people that you think are not on this forum are probably using hardware in another league from the Mac Pro, or at least clusters. Unless you walk around on raised floors, you are likely not dealing with a high-performance computing environment...
I bought a Mac Pro for my personal workstation because at the time I felt it was comparable to competing workstations for my needs. I absolutely do not use it to make money all day, but I would consider myself smack in the middle of the target market in that I consider several things otherwise missing in the Mac line to be necessary.
Location: Home "Office" next door to my real office with far more serious hardware.
Purchased By: Me
Revenue: Very Part Time
Primary Workload #1: Statistics/Modeling (School/Work)
Primary Workload #2: Audio (Hobby)
Primary Workload #3: So I can run a proper amount of monitors
I think that regardless of the results of this "survey", you cannot make a proper conclusion. The same people that you think are not on this forum are probably using hardware in another league from the Mac Pro, or at least clusters. Unless you walk around on raised floors, you are likely not dealing with a high-performance computing environment...
I bought a Mac Pro for my personal workstation because at the time I felt it was comparable to competing workstations for my needs. I absolutely do not use it to make money all day, but I would consider myself smack in the middle of the target market in that I consider several things otherwise missing in the Mac line to be necessary.
Machine: 2008 2.8x8
Location: Home Office
Purchased by: Me
Revenue: Full Time
Workload #1: Photography
Workload #2: Web Development
Never really realized it, but this is a full time machine sans weekends, and even then I'm still usually doing a few hours of work on it. It's been an awesome investment for work, handles everything I do with ease and 4GB more of RAM arrives this week for a little bit more of a buffer.
Location: Home Office
Purchased by: Me
Revenue: Full Time
Workload #1: Photography
Workload #2: Web Development
Never really realized it, but this is a full time machine sans weekends, and even then I'm still usually doing a few hours of work on it. It's been an awesome investment for work, handles everything I do with ease and 4GB more of RAM arrives this week for a little bit more of a buffer.
Machine: Early 2008 8x2.8GHz MP, 8GB RAM, 2TB Storage, Flashed 4870
Location: My "Den"
Purchased by: Me
Revenue: 0, used as our family's main desktop machine, not a home office
Workload #1: Video encoding/decoding, compression/decompression
Workload #2: BOINC
Workload #3: Gaming (Mac and Windows)
Workload #4: Being super-fast at everything else!
I'm a Computer Science guy who's used Macs his whole life. I suffered on a PM MDD G4 1x1.25GHz until March 2009 when I got this bad boy on eBay (less than a year old, with 2+ years of AppleCare on it)
Location: My "Den"
Purchased by: Me
Revenue: 0, used as our family's main desktop machine, not a home office
Workload #1: Video encoding/decoding, compression/decompression
Workload #2: BOINC
Workload #3: Gaming (Mac and Windows)
Workload #4: Being super-fast at everything else!
I'm a Computer Science guy who's used Macs his whole life. I suffered on a PM MDD G4 1x1.25GHz until March 2009 when I got this bad boy on eBay (less than a year old, with 2+ years of AppleCare on it)
Machine: 2009 2.93 GHz Quad MP
Location: Home
Purchased by: Myself on the Juniper Visa card
Revenue: No revenue (this machine is used for hobby stuff only)
Primary Workload 1: BOINC (SETI@Home)
Primary Workload 2: Graphic arts
Location: Home
Purchased by: Myself on the Juniper Visa card
Revenue: No revenue (this machine is used for hobby stuff only)
Primary Workload 1: BOINC (SETI@Home)
Primary Workload 2: Graphic arts
Mine
Machine: 2008 Octo MP
Location: Home
Purchased by: Me
Revenue: Generating 12 hours per day (Full Time!)
Workload #1: Printed Circuit Board CAD/ Gerber file editing
Workload #2: Graphics
Workload #3: Windows Games/Music/Web
I run my company off this machine
Machine: 2008 Octo MP
Location: Home
Purchased by: Me
Revenue: Generating 12 hours per day (Full Time!)
Workload #1: Printed Circuit Board CAD/ Gerber file editing
Workload #2: Graphics
Workload #3: Windows Games/Music/Web
I run my company off this machine
Machine: 2008 MP 2.8, 12GB ram, 3.3TB
Location: Home
Purchased by: Me, with $$
Revenue: - No revenue yet (this machine will hopefully start generating me revenue). Nothing that requires a mac pro, but I got it EOL. Got a couple and sold them for $$$ so this machine was less than 1000.
Workload #1: Nothing special
Workload #2:
Location: Home
Purchased by: Me, with $$
Revenue: - No revenue yet (this machine will hopefully start generating me revenue). Nothing that requires a mac pro, but I got it EOL. Got a couple and sold them for $$$ so this machine was less than 1000.
Workload #1: Nothing special
Workload #2:
Machine: 2009 2.66 GHz Octad MP
Location: Home
Purchased by: Replacement for 2007 Octad MP in turn purchased by me
Revenue: No revenue (at least not for the time being)
Primary Workload 1: BOINC (Einstein@Home)
Primary Workload 2: Audio/video work
Location: Home
Purchased by: Replacement for 2007 Octad MP in turn purchased by me
Revenue: No revenue (at least not for the time being)
Primary Workload 1: BOINC (Einstein@Home)
Primary Workload 2: Audio/video work
I've been dying to get one and this is the only reason I can come up with. I've been scouring this forum looking for possible uses beyond picture, video and audio editing. I will probably get one for school though, something in the computer science field. Once I have it I'll use it for homework, hobby stuff (ie: encoding a movie in much less than an hour, I have a huge library in .avi for some reason) and the usual email/macrumors/iTunes. I won't be making any revenue though.