resfan t1_itk5am3 wrote on October 24, 2022 at 6:23 AM

Reply to comment by APIPAMinusOneHundred in Apple testing Apple Silicon Mac Pro with 24-core CPU, 76-core GPU, 192GB of memory by prehistoric_knight

Apple sheep think more expensive = more betters

If they'd at least TRY then maybe they'd understand they're just paying for name branding

Then they'd see that they could build an even better PC if you spent the same amount of money as the mac cost

benanderson89 t1_itkpoi0 wrote on October 24, 2022 at 11:11 AM

No?

The MacBook Pro and MacPro are some of the more affordable workstation systems available. These aren't generic "gaming" PCs. A business after a high availability, certified, high stress and purpose designed computer aren't going to slam a 3080 in a Corsair case and call it a day; they're spending £50k on a MacPro for multimedia production or £100k on a Dell Precision for Engineering and simulation, because systems like this are designed to do very specific tasks reliably and consistently.

Exarctus t1_itl63zr wrote on October 24, 2022 at 1:42 PM

Hi. I work in simulation.

Absolutely nobody is spending 100K on a single (laptop) workstation. What a ridiculously made up number. You can buy a reasonably large GPU farm for that amount of cash investment and have several orders of magnitude more compute. The vast majority of simulation codes are designed to scale well with problem size on GPUs.

PotatoSlayerChip t1_itkkq9a wrote on October 24, 2022 at 10:08 AM

apple fan boy here, recently switched to a 3080 ti w a 12600k because i couldn't afford apple's prices anymore. Gotta be honest, kinda sucks, not only the available OS are awful (Windows being the most used one, tried linux which is absolutely useless if you don't wanna waste hours setting it up and stuff). Not only talking about the countless bugs that continuously pop out, but specifically about the softwares that are just straight up hell for how they are optimized, i am a photoshop daily user and premiere as well. Compared to the Macs that friends let me use to work it's just a burning pile of trash, horrendous performance with what was considered pretty much the top of the range just couple months ago. If i could go back i'd def spend that extra thousand to actually have a working machine that WORKS. On the other hand, i do see where redditors are coming since pretty much all of you use a pc just to game, and gotta admit the experience on that side is amazing! Also given the fact that apple won't optimize their cpu and gpu better for already existing games and won't try to make some contracts to get more games on the platform.

V_es t1_itl1ffq wrote on October 24, 2022 at 1:04 PM

Mmm.. no? Find me a laptop of the same weight, build quality and performance but cheaper than a macbook pro.