Mac Duo

The 159-comment USER pool is dominated by a high-upvote HackerNews debate about the 2019 Apple Mac Pro workstation's value. Pricing forensic comments break down configurations part-by-part: NewEgg 2x128GB ECC DDR4 at ~$1,650 vs Apple's 1.5TB RAM option at ~$9,900; the W-3275M Xeon estimated between ~$3,150 and '$6k'; Vega II Duo GPUs unavailable standalone with closest 32GB GPUs at ~$7,000 each; the $2,000 Afterburner card (ProRes/ProRes RAW acceleration, up to 6 streams of 8K or 23 streams of 4K ProRes RAW, Premiere support added) not available for Linux at any price. Critics cite a maxed System76 Thelio Massive at $53,356 (2x Xeon Platinum 8280, 1.5TB ECC, 4x RTX 2080 Ti) as better value. Defenders counter with the 2013 ExtremeTech test where building an 'identical PC cheaper' failed, a 27-inch 5K Dell monitor costing only ~$100 less than the entire 5K iMac, a cloud alternative (10-node EMR cluster, 1.3TB RAM, ~$10/hr, ~$7.5K/month) for ML/data workloads, and Apple supply-chain scale winning on stock SKUs (one user saved ~$180k buying 300 Mac Pros in 2008/9). The most-upvoted takeaway: 'blindly comparing specs isn't really helpful... get the specific resources matched to your workload.' Side threads cover workstation memory norms (64-512GB typical; cloud VMs up to 3-6 TiB RAM exist) and pro-monitor priorities (color accuracy/space/uniformity over refresh rate, citing $3k Sony 1080p60 broadcast monitors). Notably, several Lemmy comments are off-topic noise (reviving an old Windows 7 PC with Linux, XFCE criticism, 32-bit Firefox as a low-RAM trick, debit vs credit card fraud disputes), indicating the comment scrape mixed unrelated threads.

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