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It's not just the enthusiast segment. It's the pro segment. Apple can't conceive of a professional who does anything other than edit videos or audio.

by mantap 7y ago

lliamander 7y ago
Their marketing collateral for their XDR display shows it with some code on the screen. The notion that either the display or the Mac Pro itself makes any sense for a developer is laughable.
- Terretta 7y ago
  You can test run an awfully large K8s platform in there ...
  - mantap 7y ago
    If you're running Linux anyway, you might as well buy a 3990X, get 64 cores instead of 28, and use the money you saved to go on vacation.
    - tekknik 7y ago
      you don’t buy a $6k base machine to swap the os to linux, the entire reason to buy a mac is macos. also there’s a lot of us who still don’t trust AMD procs. I personally don’t as the only CPU I’ve ever had burn up was a bulldozer while transcoding. I’ve never even had the slightest problem with Intel procs so until AMD somehow reproves themselves to me without me spending a dime (which obviously will never happen) I don’t even consider them when speccing out a new machine
      - mantap 7y ago
        K8s is kubernetes, Linux containers. If you want to run it on macOS or Windows it runs inside a Linux VM. You might as well buy a Linux computer and SSH into it from your Mac, is the point.
        Terretta 7y ago
        Not really*, see xhyve. https://github.com/machyve/xhyve https://github.com/machyve/xhyve Meaning, it’s not a heavy Virtualbox or Vmware type VM, no ‘vagrant up’ needed. Instead: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/hyperkit/ https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/hyperkit...
        lliamander 7y ago
        There's still overhead in running containers on MacOS. File I/O is especially much slower in containers on Mac vs. natively on Linux.
        tekknik 7y ago
        yes i’m fully aware of what kubernetes is. and your point is exactly mine, don’t buy a mac with the intent to run linux on it so thanks for confirming that for me

It's not just the enthusiast segment. It's the pro segment. Apple can't conceive of a professional who does anything other than edit videos or audio.

by mantap 7y ago

It's not just the enthusiast segment. It's the pro segment. Apple can't conceive of a professional who does anything other than edit videos or audio.

lliamander 7y ago

Their marketing collateral for their XDR display shows it with some code on the screen. The notion that either the display or the Mac Pro itself makes any sense for a developer is laughable.

Terretta 7y ago
You can test run an awfully large K8s platform in there ...
- mantap 7y ago
  If you're running Linux anyway, you might as well buy a 3990X, get 64 cores instead of 28, and use the money you saved to go on vacation.
  - tekknik 7y ago
    you don’t buy a $6k base machine to swap the os to linux, the entire reason to buy a mac is macos. also there’s a lot of us who still don’t trust AMD procs. I personally don’t as the only CPU I’ve ever had burn up was a bulldozer while transcoding. I’ve never even had the slightest problem with Intel procs so until AMD somehow reproves themselves to me without me spending a dime (which obviously will never happen) I don’t even consider them when speccing out a new machine
    - mantap 7y ago
      K8s is kubernetes, Linux containers. If you want to run it on macOS or Windows it runs inside a Linux VM. You might as well buy a Linux computer and SSH into it from your Mac, is the point.
      - Terretta 7y ago
        Not really*, see xhyve. https://github.com/machyve/xhyve https://github.com/machyve/xhyve Meaning, it’s not a heavy Virtualbox or Vmware type VM, no ‘vagrant up’ needed. Instead: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/hyperkit/ https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/hyperkit...
        lliamander 7y ago
        There's still overhead in running containers on MacOS. File I/O is especially much slower in containers on Mac vs. natively on Linux.
      - tekknik 7y ago
        yes i’m fully aware of what kubernetes is. and your point is exactly mine, don’t buy a mac with the intent to run linux on it so thanks for confirming that for me