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Welcome to the era where you process all in the cloud. You don't need 30 HD on your machine anymore or 200gb ram. I was a bit shocked at the beginning but then

by meerita 13y ago

Welcome to the era where you process all in the cloud. You don't need 30 HD on your machine anymore or 200gb ram. I was a bit shocked at the beginning but then I realized most of the studios are using cloud solutions to make intensive renders or local hardware farms with plenty of processing power. I think the Mac Pro still exceeds on power, but you know you will always find someone else more hungry of power :)

voltagex_ 13y ago
Heh, I bet you're somewhere with high bandwidth, no data caps and very low latency. Here, I'm 30-60ms away from the big datacentres, and 200-400ms away from the US. Data is capped at ~500gb per month on the high end plans, and that's both upload and download. I'm lucky to get 10 megabits down, 1 megabit up on a good day. Coupled with the fact our country's going to head back to the 1950s with the inevitable change of government next election, screw the cloud.
- KnightHawk3 13y ago
  Australia? But yeah, where I am I was on mobile internet for a year where I would go 2 weeks on a 2G connection and even on the 3G I had pings of 200~ to data centers in my city.
  - voltagex_ 13y ago
    Guessed it. I was debating whether to mention it in my post.
- sgt 13y ago
  South Africa here - we're also suffering from the fact that geographically "in the middle of nowhere". As for government, don't get me started. But I'm curious - what's happening in Australia that makes you say that it's about to back to the 50s?
- meerita 13y ago
  Most of the people I know they didn't updagraded their Mac Pros ever in 3 to 6 years of use. I heard people upgrading memory, replacing discs, but the rest it should be intact. The Mac Pro is a nice machine for people who won't upgrade in 3 o 4 years, even more and still having power. If they didn't release this, I would continue with the idea of making my Hackintosh but this new baby is nice.

by meerita 13y ago

voltagex_ 13y ago

Heh, I bet you're somewhere with high bandwidth, no data caps and very low latency. Here, I'm 30-60ms away from the big datacentres, and 200-400ms away from the US. Data is capped at ~500gb per month on the high end plans, and that's both upload and download. I'm lucky to get 10 megabits down, 1 megabit up on a good day. Coupled with the fact our country's going to head back to the 1950s with the inevitable change of government next election, screw the cloud.

KnightHawk3 13y ago
Australia? But yeah, where I am I was on mobile internet for a year where I would go 2 weeks on a 2G connection and even on the 3G I had pings of 200~ to data centers in my city.
- voltagex_ 13y ago
  Guessed it. I was debating whether to mention it in my post.
sgt 13y ago
South Africa here - we're also suffering from the fact that geographically "in the middle of nowhere". As for government, don't get me started. But I'm curious - what's happening in Australia that makes you say that it's about to back to the 50s?
meerita 13y ago
Most of the people I know they didn't updagraded their Mac Pros ever in 3 to 6 years of use. I heard people upgrading memory, replacing discs, but the rest it should be intact. The Mac Pro is a nice machine for people who won't upgrade in 3 o 4 years, even more and still having power. If they didn't release this, I would continue with the idea of making my Hackintosh but this new baby is nice.