Apple, I kill you!

Sic · 8 Jan 2008 at 16:40

I'm sure you guys all do this, it's fun. Whenever a new product is announced, I spec my ideal one. Well, today Apple announced new Mac Pros. My wallet laughs in my face :/

badbob · 8 Jan 2008 at 16:42

Only one optical drive?

Sic · 8 Jan 2008 at 16:44

Saving space for a BluRay upgrade

J1234 · 8 Jan 2008 at 17:15

I always do that

theheyes · 8 Jan 2008 at 17:28

Sad thing is I seriously spec a modest Mac Pro and my wallet still laughs in my face.

DuncyBoy · 8 Jan 2008 at 17:33

I do that on car sites as well. If you think Apple can do scary specs, trying pricing up an Audi

Ender · 8 Jan 2008 at 17:36

Sic said:
I'm sure you guys all do this, it's fun. Whenever a new product is announced, I spec my ideal one. Well, today Apple announced new Mac Pros. My wallet laughs in my face :/

You pressed buy right?

Mr Jones · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:18

Let me win the lottery this weekend... oh please oh please oh please!

iMacMart · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:29

Nice spec there!

If only

Indeed the lotto is the only way to go

BillytheImpaler · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:33

C'mon, you've got the RAID card, you might as well get the SAS drives for RAID 5. 300 MiB/s transfer sounds good to me.

Indy500 · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:35

Thats apalling. I know its using a server platform, but £15k? :confused:

BillytheImpaler · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:36

sr4470 said:
Thats apalling. I know its using a server platform, but £15k?

Try spec'ing a Dell or HP with 32 GiB FB-DIMMs and a Quadro. It's spendy stuff.

Indy500 · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:37

BillytheImpaler said:
Try spec'ing a Dell or HP with 32 GiB FB-DIMMs and a Quadro. It's spendy stuff.

FB-DIMMs? Looked like ECC DDR2 to me, my bad. As for Quadros, even the worst price I've seen is about £1k.

Mr Jones · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:44

Just realise, that Nvidia FX 5600 GPU cost a wooping £1.5k more than FOUR ATI 2600XT card! Does it run Crysis on the one of the 30inch Monitor at native resolution (much less than 2 monitors!) :eek:

Edit: And I'm serious, if I DO win the lottery* this weekend, I'll buy this setup (or similar) and invite sic to come around my place to have a look and maybe even touch it

(*Disclaimer: Winnings of more than £250K)
All in good jest~

Indy500 · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:45

The Quadro's for rendering and workstation tasks, the pipes aren't optimised for gaming code.

Mr Jones · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:49

sr4470 said:
The Quadro's for rendering and workstation tasks, the pipes aren't optimised for gaming code.

Yea, kinda what I thought...
It's still massively expensive tho...

Indy500 · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:51

Dr Jones said:
Yea, kinda what I thought...
It's still massively expensive tho...

I suspect the PCBs aren't your average material either. Probably more layers and better resistors etc. Multiple layers add to cost considerably.

WotDa · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:54

We got fancy pants Ati FireGL things at college, they seem to render like crap though.

Indy500 · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:56

WotDa said:
We got fancy pants Ati FireGL things at college, they seem to render like crap though.

Depends what core they're based on. Also, the CPU does make some impact as well, I found a Conroe was miles faster than an A64 in Povray.

WotDa · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:59

sr4470 said:
Depends what core they're based on. Also, the CPU does make some impact as well, I found a Conroe was miles faster than an A64 in Povray.

Dual core Xeons for the CPU. 3Ghz iirc. Not sure on the details on the FireGL's though.

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