Most of us are acting as one-man shops I presume… unless your fancy and have an assistant in your house somewhere. My z840 is long in the tooth and a pain in the ass. The P6000 is fine but I want something faster and easier. Z8 with (2) RTX 6000 GPU ??? or Mac Pro with Radeon Pro Vega II with 32…

OK. so a single Radeon Pro Vega II with 32GB is the best you can do on a mac to increase render power and speed and that’s comparable to RTX 6000 for Linux? that’s best we can do? basically just small pros and cons between the two? Linux you can add 2 RTX 6000 at least if you’re into the background …

The speed test spreadsheet (I don’t have the link offhand) shows the Linux machines blowing the doors off of the Mac machines. They are at least twice as fast, even with older GPU’s. Now, as someone who has pushed multiple 4k jobs through a 2013 trash can I’m not convinced Max-speed is super neces…

Don’t feel sad. I’m not. Mac is a good platform for some of us. It’s super easy to administrate and it’s well worth the trade off for me.

Those of us who bought Mac Pros (Macs Pro?) last year and have gotten to enjoy some ROI are, it seems, mostly pretty happy with our choice. I would not, at this particular moment in history, knowing what little I know about Apple’s silicon plans, be so hasty to invest in a 10-15k intel Mac. If you’…

Same can be said with Linux and CentOS being EOLd.

Sure, but the sting of wishing you’d installed Red Hat instead of Centos is a lot less painful than the sting of buying a Mac Pro that immediately becomes obsolete. Easier to rectify too.

Many people are still rocking the trash cans 7 years later. Intel Mac’s won’t be obsolete. Sure there will be a shiny newer thing soon, but, if you know what you are doing you still make money by having one. By my calculations it takes 24 days of machine fees a year to pay for the hardware and 20…

The i9 boxes we built a year ago (256 gigs of RAM, NVME framestores) we’re just upgraded to single RTX a6000s from Titan RTXs and they are the fastest fucking machines I’ve ever driven. Ever. Price-wise I’d imagine it’s significantly cheaper than either of the options you mentioned, but you gotta …

Sounds awesome. Would love to see parts list if you have one.

Linux is still much faster, you have more graphics card options and can configure it much more specific to the tasks. I am curious when the new apple M towers drop to see what they make of it since we should be getting the new mac pro laptops soon I am guessing those are going to be the real competi…

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