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The switch to working from home made high-end workstations a bit more relevant. While offices had fast and reliable internet connections, the quality of home in
by jltsiren 4y ago
The switch to working from home made high-end workstations a bit more relevant. While offices had fast and reliable internet connections, the quality of home internet is often much worse. You can't rely on the cloud as much from home as from office.
I develop bioinformatics methods and software, and I see significant productivity gains when I can run tests with full datasets locally. So far I've been using an iMac with 128 GB RAM, but I'd like to upgrade to something with 256 GB or even 512 GB. As the Mac Studio is pretty underwhelming from my perspective, the options are basically a hypothetical Mac Pro and a Linux box.
- lostapathy 4y ago> While offices had fast and reliable internet connections, most offices I’ve been around have internet that tops out no more than a little faster than a decent home connection, but have dozens of people sharing them.
- mfld 4y agoA while back I built a linux box for bioinformatics and was happy with the performance [1]. You might need to look for suitable main boards to support your RAM requirements, though. [1] https://www.ecseq.com/blog/2020/Whole-Exome-Analysis-on-a-Mainstream-Desktop-PC https://www.ecseq.com/blog/2020/Whole-Exome-Analysis-on-a-Ma...