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My guess is that it's going to overheat before you can effectively use the six core i7 option. Also, I'm assuming their pricing is based on market research. So
by wufufufu 8y ago
My guess is that it's going to overheat before you can effectively use the six core i7 option.
Also, I'm assuming their pricing is based on market research. So by pricing the 2TB version at +$1400 (which you could put into a non-macOS desktop build for like $300), they're implying you're either quite rich, ignorant, or you're spending corporate or academic money.
As a desktop option, why does this seem more expensive than the Macbook Pro?
- timcederman 8y agoThe SSDs they use are almost an order of magnitude faster than regular consumer grade ones you can get for just over $300, and I was surprised last time I priced up something with decent performance that it cost about the same whether buying from Apple or not.
- wufufufu 8y agoThey have almost 6GB/s write speeds? Also, you can get a 2TB PCIE SSD that writes at 2000MB/s for $600. https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/501128/Samsung-SSD-970-EVO-2TB https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/501128/Samsung-SSD-9...
- timcederman 8y agoMost drives I've looked at get around 400mb a second (I also use https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/ https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/), and the SSDs Apple use are 2500mb/s, so 6.25x faster. I priced up the high performance 2TB SSD setup about a year ago, so I'll concede that data point is out of date.
- wufufufu 8y agoI agree $1400 seems more reasonable when compared to PCIE SSD prices.