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I am skeptical that “power users” need more than a Mac Studio with possibly some of the feature upgrades. While having power on the desktop is great, for real
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
I am skeptical that “power users” need more than a Mac Studio with possibly some of the feature upgrades.
While having power on the desktop is great, for real compute use cloud resources.
- ARandumGuy 4y agoA lot of Mac Pro users are involved in high end media production. For those users, the power is beneficial so that you never have to wait for your computer. For a more specific example, music producers liked the fact you could have over a terabyte of RAM on the Mac Pro. This allows keeping their entire library of VST plugins loaded into memory, meaning they never have to wait to load plugins into their project.
- htag 4y agoA very fast internet connection would be 4gbps symmetrical. A modern NVME can read ~5gbps. DDR5 supports up to 51GBs. PCIE6 has a symmetrical 128GBs connection. If file size is a bottleneck for you then you'll see better performance computing locally, especially if you can cache workloads in DDR5 before saving to the filesystem.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoTrue enough. My Dad, who is 101 and does video editing and animation as a hobby, seems to suffer from long rendering and other processing bottlenecks. I have mentioned using cloud resources, and he doesn' want the hassle. He does buy whatever best Pro box Apple has about every 3 years.