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#Mac pro 2010 cpu upgrade hex tool size mac#

But, for what I need, I can probably get a non-OS X, 8-10 year machine for 2-3k less, and grab a Mac Mini for the occasional need for XCode building/app store submission. Sure, its upgradability would likely give me a decade-long machine. But with what work I do now, and the price, I dont think I'll be able to justify the closest thing we've seen to one. I, like many others here, would love the fabled xMac to exist. 10 years, $5500 (with upgrades): not a bad per-year cost of ownership (and I can probably eek another year or two out of it). I still use it to this day, and now that I am doing more traditional dev work that isn't nearly as computationally taxing, it is still very much speedy enough, and is my daily driver. That Mac Pro has been upgraded with hex-core processors, a modern video card, and now is sporting 64 gigs of RAM, and a dual SSD raid setup on a PCI card. I think the total price (RAM came third party) was ~$4500. Thus, I went through a 2008 MacPro, which was quickly followed up by a well equipped 2009 Mac Pro (2 Quad-core CPUs, 32 gigs of RAM, etc.) when I started my consultancy. I was drawn to OS X due to the unix underpinnings, and having a nice development environment (versus 2005-2010 era linux). Back in the day, I was doing a ton of subsurface flow simulation and development, and other very taxing computational work. That's not the end of the world but it doesn't need to be papered over either?

Once in a while it trips them up or causes them to neglect opportunities. They've got cultural cruft and blindspots like any org, as with the Nvidia thing. Instead I think people read the tea leaves too deeply on assuming Apple actually has logical an thought out positions for everything.

And I personally think that's not true, that it's a pretty great OS and ecosystem and that Apple could be competitive while still making fat margins. I don't see how that can all be dismissed unless you just plain think it's impossible for Apple and macOS to ever compete on quality there. Screens continue to last longer and be more varies then computers (though this at least might be close to changing, which would represent a real paradigm shift but also actually helps the value of headless rather then hurt it so no good for Apple's main lineup there either). Compact is harder, more expensive and imposes more performance constraints for the same level of tech. There clearly remain markets there, because the basic value argument is rooted in the laws of physics: if you aren't worried about portability, you've got a lot more cm^3 and a lot more watts to work with. Objectively speaking though we can all see that's not the case right? There are a lot of OEMs serving the $1000+ tower space, and by all accounts (including reports to the SEC for OEMs that are public corps) it's a significant source of profits vs higher volume but razor thin margin lower end gear. The 3rd party market for PCIe cards should be dead. All the various builders and OEMs should have stopped making workstations long ago, because no significant quantities of customers.

#Mac pro 2010 cpu upgrade hex tool size Pc#

Do you think macOS fundamentally sucks and is uncompetitive? Because by your argument there should be no (mini)towers left in the PC world. the argument for the xMac doesn’t seem that compelling to me. And we know that Pro usage skews 80/20 laptop so.