[geeks] Replacing a Mac Pro 2006

[Mark Benson]

On 2 Dec 2012, at 23:35, Ben Greisler wrote:

> Apple announced there would be something else that we should see mid-2013
from
> what I understand.

Oh, well that's at least semi-encouraging but I remain a tad skeptical.

> Most people really don't care what is inside the machine and broken
machines
> aren't a huge problem percentage-wise. And now that Apple includes two
10Gbs
> Thunderbolt connections on the iMacs, allows up to 32GB RAM and both SSD
and
> spinning rust disks, there is a pretty good choice of options.

Said spinning rust is 2.5" now AFAIK which makes it slow spinning rust. Their
SSD prices, on the other hand, are a sick joke.

> Thunderbolt allows the connection of anything from a 10GBs HBA to fibre
channel to
> anything else that is PCie.

Albeit only PCIe x4 but yes that's enough for a decent, FC, SAS or eSATA
controller.

> Curious, what did they drop from the iMacs that can't be added back in
again
> via TB?

The money from my flaming wallet that is required to add things they took out
is the issue. TB stuff is stupendously expensive. The cables alone are 50
bucks a piece.

This is Firewire all over again. Fast as all get-out, really flexible bus-wise
but ultimately will end up being marginalised next to USB because it's a
clique that's only used on Macs and maybe a few high performance PCs later on
and it's too expensive.

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