Comments on: 2013 Mac Pro Replica Built Out of an Actual Trashcan

By: orbitly

orbitly — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:01:00 +0000

I know a bunch of people that are the real customers of workstations. They’ve all got a couple RAID arrays for their customers documents. Store nothing but the OS and applications on the internal hard drive. 250GB of insanely fast PCIe storage is better than a terabyte 7200RPM HDD for them.

By: orbitly

orbitly — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 22:58:00 +0000

Odd, I consider the Mac Mini the only Mac not worth buying at all. I just built a Hackintosh for my friend with a Haswell Core i3 3.5GHz, 8GB 1600MHz RAM, 1TB HDD, Intel HD 4600 graphics for $360. Runs perfectly, just like any real Mac on OS X 10.9.2. A Mac Mini with a Ivy Bridge mobile Core i7 2.3GHz (similar in benchmarks to current desktop i3), 8GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, and the Intel HD 4000 graphics runs $900. The only advantage is size and support. Whereas the iMac has a brilliant display in it. Even Apple’s own $999 monitor isn’t nearly as good. The MacBook Pro is the only laptop I would personally use at the moment due to the display (2560×1600 on 13″, 2880×1800 on 15″, basically everything I’ve found so far on OS X supports HIDPI, unlike Windows), trackpad, and build quality and thinness. A few Windows laptops come close in display and thinness, but Windows at the moment is useless with a HIDPI display. Not even Chrome supports it. The trackpad is the number two reason for sure. It’s not just the hardware, several ultra books now have multitouch glass trackpads like Apple, but the software is utter shit for it when comparing to a MacBook on OS X. The Mac Pro is a great option for it’s customer. It’s customers are not the kinds of organizations that can just build Hackintosh’s. They need workstation hardware and support. Sony doesn’t make computers anymore…

By: Natzzzy9119

Natzzzy9119 — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:47:00 +0000

Who agrees That apple ruined the classic mac pro turning it into a stupid proprietary trashcan

By: Daryl Lee

Daryl Lee — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:43:00 +0000

wil a gtx 650 ti fit on this?

By: Nick Carrière

Nick Carrière — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:16:00 +0000

First of all, this has to be done. ” less then the mac”.
“less THAN the mac”, it is basic English.

Okay anyway, what I said was EVERYONE KNOWS that you can make an equivalent for cheaper. Second it probably isn’t 24 cores, it is probably 12 cores hyper-threaded since a 12 core CPU doesn’t exist. Oh and “virtual cores” doesn’t actually change how many processes a core can take at once. For example, 1 core with 2 threads means 1 thread has a process ready while the other thread processes it. Once it is completed it will move onto the next thread to process what it has ready. ANYWAY, like i said, everyone knows this can happen, I am talking strictly about size and a good cooling solution. What you priced out I know will take up most of the room in a large tower like mine (HAF X). So read my comment and understand it before you reply. THANKS

By: Ozfer

Ozfer — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:07:00 +0000

I just priced out a system on pc part picker and it has 2 of the same cpu the mac pro has (24 cores) same 1TB pci-e ssd, 2 of my better video cards (expandable to 4 not just limited to 2) same ram and everything plus a gaming keyboard and mouse for over $1500 less then the mac. If you only went with 1 cpu like the mac it would be around $5,000 less for the same thing. Note the size wouldn’t be as small but other then that idc if my pc is a bit bigger if it has 2-4x more performance and is over $1,000 cheaper. I have used non workstation gpus with autocad, solidworks, keycreator, photoshop, sony vegas, and many other professional studios.

By: Nick Carrière

Nick Carrière — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:21:00 +0000

I cannot recall the software names because I am not in any of the industries that require a workstation GPU. I use AutoCAD and Civil3D and I know those work on any GPU. But I do know there is software that you must hack in order to use desktop GPUs. Either way, this replica can’t come close to the specs of the current Mac Pro. That is the whole point of the topic. Everyone knows you can make a Mac Pro “equivalent” for cheaper in terms of specs. Unless someone sets out to do what apple did and completely redesign a computer to match what they did. In that case, it would cost them more to make than to buy a Mac Pro. Even to get a small system with this much performance is tricky.

By: Ozfer

Ozfer — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:49:00 +0000

Most cad software works with 780, most video editing programs work with 780, all games work with 780, photoshop works with 780. Still we could go with the 780s sister the titant that is a workstation gpu and while it would cost $400 more and be slightly less fast then a 780ti it would still be over $1000 cheaper. Much software would work on both and both are better then the firepro and at a cheaper price. There isn’t any main software that that wont run at all on high end graphics cards unless you are designing your own software.

By: Nick Carrière

Nick Carrière — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:55:00 +0000

You seem to not know that some programs will only use workstation graphics and won’t run properly or at all on regular cards.

By: Ozfer

Ozfer — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 02:56:00 +0000

you seem to forget we could go with a more powerful non “workstation” 780 ti or faster and get better performance for only $600