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Reminds me of customers these would “invest” huge amounts of capex into servers in the early 2000s when processor speed was going up exponentially. One guy was
by jiggawatts 4y ago
Reminds me of customers these would “invest” huge amounts of capex into servers in the early 2000s when processor speed was going up exponentially.
One guy was complaining that their mail server — the size of half a rack — was slow.
I pointed out that the Blackberry phone he was syncing to it was faster.
“But the server cost over a hundred thousand dollars!”
Yes… and now it’s worthless.
- matwood 4y agoHaving looked at and bought racks of used servers before, this pricing 'oddity' isn't that surprising to me. Apple is thought of as a consumer company, but 50k for a machine is strictly enterprise with the appropriate markup. In this case it got double whammied because of the switch over to Apple Silicon.
- jiggawatts 4y agoIt was massively overpriced to begin with. At the time it was first released you could already buy a Threadripper workstation with an NVIDIA GPU that would run circles around it for a fraction of the price.