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The market is not data center use.
by manigandham 5y ago
The market is not data center use.
- rbanffy 5y agoYou'll still spend another Mac Studio on energy in order to run a comparable PC for the next five years. To say nothing about not wanting to be in the same room as its fans.
- manigandham 5y agoWhat are you talking about? This is not for cloud datacenters trying to squeeze every bit of compute per resource. These machines are commonly used by professionals in industries like movie and music production. They don't care what the power bill is, it's insignificant compared to the cost of the employee using the hardware.
- rbanffy 5y ago> "They don't care what the power bill is" Oh... They do. At least, they should. If a similar PC costs $500 less but you spend $700 more in electricity per year because of it, at the end of the year, your profits will show the difference.
- manigandham 5y agoAs I said, these numbers are so insignificant that they don't matter. The cost of the employee and their productive is several magnitudes more. I ran a visual effects company a decade ago. We bought the fastest machines we could because saving time for production was important. The power draw was never a factor; a few catered lunches alone would dwarf the power bill.