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> Performance-wise, this machine can almost replace a proper workstation. This guy has never seen a real workstation. Real workstation (from vendors like Leno
by znpy 5y ago
> Performance-wise, this machine can almost replace a proper workstation.
This guy has never seen a real workstation.
Real workstation (from vendors like Lenovo, HP and Dell) usually come with Xeon-class processors (multiple, often two of them) and a shitload of ram (sometimes terabytes). And multiple disks.
Example: the HP z-series workstation and the ThinkStation series from Lenovo.
An "enthusiast"-class gaming pc is not a workstation.
- arpa 5y agowow, it must be nice to belong to .0000001%.
- solarengineer 5y agoFor applications such as CAD, Video and Sound Editing, and other computationally and memory inventive applications, workstations are indeed a class apart from desktops. For e.g., the disks are rated for high throughput, the RAM is ECC, the CPUs have higher L2/L3 cache. The Video cards and drivers are also often tuned for the use case. Such workstations are not the same as desktops used for gaming, everyday use, or even programming.
- znpy 5y agoYup, it must be really nice. I wouldn't know though. What I can guess thought, is that at the end of the day, all work is work. You'd probably get bored of work even if you could work on a 1 petabyte ram workstation (that doesn't exist at the moment, afaik).
- nvarsj 5y agoYou don't even need a "real workstation". A desktop with a 5 year old (heck, probably even 10 year old) CPU will beat the snot out of any mobile x86 CPU. Intel stagnated mobile performance for a long time, favoring terrible performance over battery life. Maybe the M1 can finally propel the laptop market back on track so we can actually get pro devices which rival desktops.