[etchalon]

After reading the article, my takeaway was:

1. You can't build a Mac Pro equivalent with off the shelf parts (yet). 2. You can get kinda close, but you're not saving that much money. 3. The less close you're willing to get, the less money you'll spend, which is absolutely not interesting, surprising or relevant.

In summary, the new Mac Pro is pretty awesomely priced and I'm going to order one for my lead dev.

[kayoone]

just curious, what do you develop with it? I think the new Mac Pro is pretty awesome, but i dont really need that kind of power to work.

[etchalon]

We develop mobile applications, games, and some pretty hefty/complex server applications. In all cases, compilation time, rendering time and multi-tasking are of pretty significant importance to the developers.

Personally, I just make the websites (python and go) so the performance matters way less to me.

But I still want one.

[kayoone]

the CPU performance of the MP isnt particularly strong though, its more of a GPU powerhouse. But well, i want one too ;)

[etchalon]

…and probably one for myself…