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Mac Pro is Shit - Extended Edition

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I happened upon this "comparison" that pits the Mac Pro against "best competing workstations".

I'd like to nip this meme in the bud before it attains a BackBlaze-level of retarded followers.

Let's start by getting familiar with the target markets.

The Mac Pro is at the LOW end of workstations. Most other workstation OEMs produce much wider and more capable offerings. This is because the major players for workstations are Dell, HP, and Lenovo - not Apple.

Just look at workstation marketshare for 1Q15.

http://jonpeddie.com/publications/workstation_report/

>HP - 40%
>Dell - 34%
>Lenovo - 15%
>Fujitsu - 3%
>The remaining 10.3% shipped from smaller OEMs and system integrators.

They have a much wider market to cater for, relative to the Mac Pro which is just a drop in the bucket.

Second, the fact that the Mac Pro is a LOW-end workstation significantly restricts comparisons to a small subset of entry-level offerings from Dell/HP/Lenovo.

For example, most other workstation offerings are DUAL CPU (or more). Only the entry-level offerings are SINGLE CPU.

Mac Pro only comes in SINGLE CPU configurations. For the latest version (Late 2013), the choices are all Ivy Bridge-EP CPUs:
>E5-1620 v2 (4C, 3.7GHz, Turbo 3.9GHz, 10M)
>E5-1650 v2 (6C, 3.5GHz, Turbo 3.9GHz, 12M)
>E5-1680 v2 (8C, 3.0GHz, Turbo 3.9GHz, 25M)
>E5-2697 v2 (12C, 2.7GHz, Turbo 3.5 GHz, 30M)
Notice that the CPUs being compared to from Dell & Lenovo are all Haswell-EP CPUs, which is a generation ahead. Because unlike Apple, Dell & Lenovo actually give a shit about this market and update their lineup in a timely fashion.

To see just how bad this is, let's compare against the latest Dell line of workstations (T5810/T7810/T7910).
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daily reminder that apple took us to pluto
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wat do
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Desktop Thread

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no bully edition
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http://www.twitch_tv/destiny

Holy fuck, this guy is trying to teach a girl how to put together a pc from scratch with 3k viewers.
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butterface

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Anybody have jess webb's nudes?

Windows 10 general + Desktop Thread

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Where are my Windows 10 bros at?
Post your desktops and overall impression of the latest build 10240.
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Windows 10

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She's watching you :)
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>DuckDuckGo doesn't track you
>no source code
Do people actually fall for this shit?
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/bst/ - BATTLESTATION THREAD

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Old thread >>48491376
Post your Battlestations.
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