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Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum?

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In article <529da6ed$0$61367$c3e8da3$5e5e430d@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 13-12-03 02:25, cosme.marley@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Do you think MacPro is closest to being this diskless high end workstation
> > or do you think it's another vendor? Thanks.
> 
> While Apple may have a correct prediction that in the future, all will
> be SSD for local low volume storage  and use cloud storage for terabytes
> of data. In that environment, the new MacPro may be fine, but that
> environment isn't even close to arriving.
> 
> Just consider your internet connection's uplink speed. Your fancy
> MacPro's CPUs won't go to 100% when rendering a movie because it will
> constantly be waiting to write your data to the cloud over your slow
> internet uplink.
> 
> And the NSA revelations may just kill the cloud buzzword. Do you really
> want to make it easy for the NSA to know about everything you do, all
> your family's pictures etc ?

Many (most?) Mac Pro users are likely to be in environments with
massive amounts of fast local network storage.




> So, for today's needs, the MacPro's advertised price is only a
> propportion of your system cost because you need to buy a separate
> cabinet for real disks, for optical media and other peripherals that
> Apple has decided will eventually no longer exist.

The Mac Pro / PowerMac pricing has always been a bit misleading in that
sense. You've always need to add an external display for example.

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  Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-30 23:20 -0500
    Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-12-01 21:06 +1300
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        Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-01 15:05 -0500
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        Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-12-02 12:29 +1300
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  Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-01 04:23 +0000
    Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-30 23:34 -0500
      Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-11-30 21:30 -0800
        Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-01 00:37 -0500
        Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2013-12-02 15:56 -0800
          Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-03 13:19 +1300
          Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-02 19:35 -0500
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  Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2013-12-01 12:17 -0700
  Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-02 09:11 +1300
    Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-01 23:04 -0500
      Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-02 18:11 +1300
      Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-02 18:27 +0000
      Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? cosme.marley@gmail.com - 2013-12-02 23:25 -0800
        Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-03 04:39 -0500
          Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-04 09:05 +1300
          Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? rcp27g@gmail.com - 2013-12-04 05:55 -0800
            Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-04 18:06 +0000
            Re: Any "sweet spots" in the used Mac spectrum? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-05 09:01 +1300
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