Spec me the new iMac Pro - as a PC

EyeDot · 3 Feb 2018 at 01:41

Feek said:
Very nice Jimdot lad, looking forward to hearing how well it plays CS2

If I was speccing that sort of machine, I'd have gone with the 4Tb SSD though, you dirty cheapskate

hah, current 5k only has 256GB and I've got 100GB free as it is, I did click 4, but then thought, meh, I can buy some HomePods instead

EyeDot · 3 Feb 2018 at 01:43

kitkat9933 said:
Strange spec, maxed most areas including the really expensive 18 core option but 64GB memory? Surely the 64GB memory will bottleneck before the processor you have bought.

I use it as a home media server 10% of the time, Civ6 10% of the time, and Safari/Outlook 80% of the time, current 5k has 32GB and it barely touches the sides.

iMac said:
MemRegions: 104850 total, 10G resident, 253M private, 2736M shared. PhysMem: 25G used (2703M wired), 7244M unused.

VM: 1858G vsize, 1097M framework vsize, 19497(0) swapins, 35876(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 313701736/309G in, 398806739/265G out.

If i need more ram, which I'm sure I wont, I'll just upgrade it later (in store!)

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2018 at 14:07

EyeDot said:
I use it as a home media server 10% of the time, Civ6 10% of the time, and Safari/Outlook 80% of the time, current 5k has 32GB and it barely touches the sides.

You spent 10 grand to browse the web/email? :eek:

ic1male · 3 Feb 2018 at 14:47

Hehehhee, the extravagance! I love it.

EyeDot · 3 Feb 2018 at 22:09

Combat squirrel said:
You spent 10 grand to browse the web/email?

Well my 15" Full spec Touch Bar slows down

Forgive me, I thought this place was all about pushing hardware to the bleeding edge for benchmark scores

Feek · 3 Feb 2018 at 22:16

EyeDot said:
Forgive me, I thought this place was all about pushing hardware to the bleeding edge for benchmark scores

That would be the Windows and General Hardware sections

Combat squirrel · 3 Feb 2018 at 22:16

EyeDot said:
Well my 15" Full spec Touch Bar slows down

Forgive me, I thought this place was all about pushing hardware to the bleeding edge for benchmark scores

Christ I wish I had all that stuff for my business!!! lol, I have to settle for my Ryzen custom build - does the job but not so fancy, wanna trade ?

Make a positive donation to a struggling artist ?

EyeDot · 3 Feb 2018 at 23:58

Feek said:
That would be the Windows and General Hardware sections

Not run winblows Since XP was the king!

MacRS4 · 6 Feb 2018 at 12:18

Performance run through here should anyone be vaguely interested.

https://youtu.be/z3hGopxOoio

ic1male · 6 Feb 2018 at 14:26

MacRS4 said:
Performance run through here should anyone be vaguely interested.

https://youtu.be/z3hGopxOoio

I watched it but I came away with three thoughts/questions

1) Why did you buy a Mac when you seem to spend a fair bit of time using Windows virtual machines
2) The sound levels were a bit low, I had to turn the volume way up to hear you
3) Do you do any gaming? There seems to be hardly any videos on YouTube that show games running in macOS itself.

Otherwise, thanks for the video!

MacRS4 · 6 Feb 2018 at 14:52

I don't do any gaming, no.

Why do I use a Mac is an interesting question, one I've often pondered tbh. I bought one out of curiousity a number of years ago and I just find them more productive. I spend less time farting about with the OS and Hardware and more time doing stuff that keeps me in holidays and hot women.

Much of it is subjective of course. I spent most my career working with Windows servers, and I"m sure I could spend the rest of it working with Windows servers too (The iMacs replaced couple of aging DL380s).

I'm sure there isn't a 'right' answer here is there? 80-90% of the virtualisation estates I deal with are VMWare. Using Fusion makes them an easy transfer.

ic1male · 6 Feb 2018 at 15:14

MacRS4 said:
I'm sure there isn't a 'right' answer here is there?

Nope, there isn't. For me, it's just a case of being bored with Windows. I want to try something different. 2 grand different is the stickler though. I hope it isn't a case of "the grass isn't always greener." The only stumbling block for me is gaming although tbh I've still got the consoles to fall back on if the Mac turns out to be bothersome on that side of things.

When I had my little iBook G3 years ago, it was probably the best computer I've ever owned. Loved it to bits. But then I bought a Dell notebook which lasted me almost 10 years. Now it's time to return to macOS.

AyeAyeAhoy! · 6 Feb 2018 at 21:29

ic1male said:
£9089 ?????????????????????

Jesus.

Haha!! That's crazy

Deleted member 138126 · 7 Feb 2018 at 14:49

MacRS4 said:
keeps me in holidays and hot women

LOL

EyeDot · 7 Feb 2018 at 16:39

Fun fun!

Thunderbolt Migration in progress now!

EyeDot · 8 Feb 2018 at 12:40

well, what impressive service from Apple!

I contacted them to ask about a smaller keyboard, they shipped this with the numeric keypad keyboard, which means my magic track pad gets shunted a little too far over for my liking,

So I messaged asking how / if I could buy a standard magic keyboard in space grey as I cant see it on the website..

They're sending me one for free to say sorry that I wasn't 100% happy!

Small simple touch, but one that resonates!

ic1male · 8 Feb 2018 at 12:44

Considering you just spent 9 grand with them, it's the least they could do.

bloodiedathame · 8 Feb 2018 at 13:07

EyeDot said:
well, what impressive service from Apple!

I contacted them to ask about a smaller keyboard, they shipped this with the numeric keypad keyboard, which means my magic track pad gets shunted a little too far over for my liking,

So I messaged asking how / if I could buy a standard magic keyboard in space grey as I cant see it on the website..

They're sending me one for free to say sorry that I wasn't 100% happy!

Small simple touch, but one that resonates!

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I've also got a tap water additive and air additive that I'm working on.

EyeDot · 8 Feb 2018 at 13:19

bloodiedathame said:
I've developed a new special type of electricity that I can have wired to your house, it works just like regular electricity, but makes everything 1-5% more powerful. I'm not marketing it yet but thought you might be interested. Only £30/month and minimum term of 5 years. You don't have to do anything, we'll take care of all the work and you don't have to change provider or anything like that.

I've also got a tap water additive and air additive that I'm working on.

Yes, but you're lying, if you truly could make electricity 5% more efficient, you'd be a very wealthy individual!

bloodiedathame · 8 Feb 2018 at 13:38

Busted!

Spec me the new iMac Pro - as a PC

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