[TheOtherHobbes]

Workstation-class machines are very much available, at workstation-class prices.

You can buy a 64-core 7985WX Threadripper Pro with Nvidia RTX6000 and 256GB RAM for $30k or so.

Upgrade to an A100 if you're in a hurry.

They're not unusual in commercial video and animation, machine learning, and general science/engineering.

TBH you could reasonably class the $4k M3Ultra Mac Studio as a low-end workstation-grade machine for some tasks.

[ofrzeta]

This might not be the most rational thing to say but I think "workstation" means "Unix workstation" which means "non-x86".

[ido]

The aforementioned mac is Unix on RISC!

[nullpoint420]

I don’t mean to be a downer, but it is XNU (X is not Unix) on RISC.

“or as I like to call it, XNU/RISC”

[os2warpman]

It isn't Unix. It is UNIX.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3710.htm

[nullpoint420]

Apologies, I should have said "XNU stands for X is Not UNIX." Someone should update the docs at Apple! [0]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Po...

[ofrzeta]

That is true :) So Apple has become the last remaining Unix workstation vendor?

[ido]

It doesn't take much to get the price up to low 5-figure USD (inflation UN-adjusted similar to lower end SUN workstation prices)...Max CPU and max RAM already bring you to $10k without a monitor.

[datadrivenangel]

and those color graded monitors are expensive!