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PotatoSlayerChip t1_itkkq9a wrote

apple fan boy here, recently switched to a 3080 ti w a 12600k because i couldn't afford apple's prices anymore. Gotta be honest, kinda sucks, not only the available OS are awful (Windows being the most used one, tried linux which is absolutely useless if you don't wanna waste hours setting it up and stuff). Not only talking about the countless bugs that continuously pop out, but specifically about the softwares that are just straight up hell for how they are optimized, i am a photoshop daily user and premiere as well. Compared to the Macs that friends let me use to work it's just a burning pile of trash, horrendous performance with what was considered pretty much the top of the range just couple months ago. If i could go back i'd def spend that extra thousand to actually have a working machine that WORKS. On the other hand, i do see where redditors are coming since pretty much all of you use a pc just to game, and gotta admit the experience on that side is amazing! Also given the fact that apple won't optimize their cpu and gpu better for already existing games and won't try to make some contracts to get more games on the platform.

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Saaihead t1_itkgm5e wrote

Yeah, this is exactly what I thought. The big pro of the Pro is the option to expand your Mac, I'm really curious how (or if) they are going to support PCI-E expansions. And if the huge amount of GPU cores will bring the same performance as a high end AMD GPU. Cause to me this sounds like a Mac Pro becoming less Pro.

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PaulR79 t1_itkea34 wrote

As someone else already explained it I'll just add that RAM is what is traditionally called 'memory' in a system with HDD and SSD being storage. Some companies started saying memory when they meant storage a while ago and I've hated it from the start for the reason you were confused. They are not the same at all.

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Mortcarpediem t1_itkckly wrote

As an owner of one of the previous Mac Pro’s from New. I just hope that the lower tier models will be fast enough for my needs without costing the same as a brand new car. The last specification practically cost 13 grand to get it to a comfortable spec which was nuts. Bought a trash can Mac Pro on release at a decent spec for under £3,000

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