[jwhat]

Hi Irinikus,

my answer is simple, if you want the fastest and most powerful video processing Macintosh you can get then, the answer is yes the new Mac Pro is a beautiful thing.

Given the weight I would strongly recommend wheels and I even think it looks better with wheels.

My practical answer is that it is not good value, as I think I paid $4000 something for my Mac Pro 2012 back in 2013 (just before New Mac Pro came out) and I could readily afford it, while the new Mac Pro is simply not justifiable $$ wise to me.

On practical front that Mac Pro is now doing duty in the cellar:



I made the call to remove the Xserve 2009 Server as this was no longer supported by Apple and moved the Mac Pro to new duties as Time Machine Backup and rync server for other machines. It gets turned on once a month to run backup duties and is connected to the two SAS Storage Chassis for RAID'ed storage.

Meanwhile on the my desk I replaced the Mac Pro with a modest new Mac mini with 10 GbE, which cost me as much as the original Mac Pro 2012 (Apple prices are inflated) and it handles modest duties as home media server and all the things I did previously on Mac Pro are now on my MacBook Pro laptop, so my compute needs have not grown sufficiently over time to justify new Mac Pro.

If I was going to spend big $$ right now it would be on Flash Storage rather than compute, as storage is way more important to me than compute,

As a glimmer in the eye, the Mac Pro I would get would be a rack mount one, which I could keep in basement to run storage tasks and virtualised MacOS guests.

Funny how all my compute needs are being served by machines in the basement and not on the desktop nowadays.

Final comment, how I wish Apple and Nvidia would make up and kiss so you could put Nvidia GPUs back in Macs ;-)

If you want the best then go with a new Mac Pro, it will run rings around any old SGI (not sure if you saw this performance curve... of old SGI vs old Mac Pro and newish 32 Core X3650 Intel Server - which is the kind of performance you should see from a new Mac Pro).

That should wet for appetite for more compute grunt ;-)


Cheers from Oz,


John