[jwhat]

Hi Irinikus & others,

as per this post: https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-4240.html , fours years after Irinikus asked the question I got my new Mac Pro "Cheese Grater".

Value wise I believe these are now great value. I am using the "grater" everyday and it is my "go to" box for most work.

Performance wise this machine is off the scale, see here for simple c-ray relative score benchmark (mostly a floating point test):



NOTE: For clearer view of relative performance, I have removed all but my highest performing SGI/MIPS machine (see "sphfract for slowest (Fuel) to fastest (2019 Grater)" for more details).

Mac Pro 2019 has best performance across all c-ray benchmarks (even better than Lenovo 32 core X3650 server).

Points on the new grater I think are great:
- PCIe Expansion, I moved ARECA ARC-1883 SAS RAID card out of "classic" Mac Pro 2012, into the new Mac Pro 2019. This was painless and all my backup volumes are available.
- Dual 10GbE - I left SmallTree 10GbE card in "classic" 2012 Mac Pro (now sold) as 2019 has dual 10GbE.
- Wheels, as I move my grater down into basement once a month to use it for back/archive host and the wheels make this easy (it is heavy machine)
- Stainless Steel Handles, these are so much easier on the hands than the old and very sharp aluminium handles of "classic" Mac Pro (again important due to weight)
- Grunt, this thing flys, it has equivalent performance to my dual cpu 32 core X3650, but runs silently under the desk
- Value, this cost me less than my Octane2, Onyx 350 & X3650 (even after adding wheels and swapping CPU and GPU)

For Apple Silicon Mac I will upgrade my Mac mini, as this is now just home media server.

The new grater is king of hill, apps wise I have: Adobe suite, Apple Media and Music applications, SW Development via lots of VMs (VMWare Fusion).

To keep things safe I got simple internal SSD drive bracket (~ USD $ 40) + Internal SATA cable via MODDIY (~ USD $15) + 8TB SSD for internal NVMe boot disk backup.

Only thing lost from "classic" is blu-ray burner, but now all my video is streamed via Mac mini, so that is ok.

Agree with you ghost180sx that $68,107 is completely insane price, but now you can get that type of config for less than USD 15,000 .

I know that Irinikus loves his "trashcans" , but I love the "grater".

So happy Mac'ing for me ;-)

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John.