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I must be pretty lucky. I've been using Apple products since the original iMac and the only problem I've ever had was when I dropped my phone on a rock and cra
by innocentoldguy 8y ago
I must be pretty lucky. I've been using Apple products since the original iMac and the only problem I've ever had was when I dropped my phone on a rock and cracked the screen. Apple was great about replacing it for me too.
Regarding CPUs, I'm personally much more interested in being able to run macOS on my computer, iOS on my phone, and tvOS on my TV and have them all work together in ways that make me happy. If Apple could add a car to that, I'd be thrilled. I'm always willing to try other options, but I've just never found a setup that worked quite as well for me.
For example, I have a computer I built from parts from NewEgg and Nvidia about a year ago. It has a Threadripper 1950X processor, 128GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Titan V card in it. I used it for about a week and then went back to my MacBook Pro. The custom-built computer is gathering dust in the corner of my office. My point is that different things are important to different people.
- aembleton 8y agoWhy did you build a machine with 128GB of RAM and then not use it? Was there a specific task you built it for? Why didn't you just rent some instances from AWS?
- innocentoldguy 8y agoYes, I built it for a project I was working on. I planned to use the machine for development and maybe gaming afterward but kept going back to my laptop since it was easier to use. I hadn't really expected that to be the case, but that's how it turned out.
- oblio 8y ago> I must be pretty lucky. > [...] > It has a Threadripper 1950X processor, 128GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Titan V card in it. Yes, you are, you're rich. An Nvidia Titan V card on Amazon costs about $3k!
- innocentoldguy 8y agoSadly, yes, which makes the wastefulness of it sitting in the corner that much more poignant.
- goldenkey 8y agoA Titan V is a premiere GPU mainly for machine learning and other workloads, costs nearly $3000. And this computer is gathering dust?? Yes..you are out of your element and clearly privilege has gotten to your head.