A “reasonable” configuration that I would configure if I was speccing my own desktop (16 core / 96GB / 2TB) comes in at just under $10k.
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The $64000 question of how much a fully specced-out Mac Pro costs is actually not far from the truth. It’s $52,748. ($500 more for the rackmount)
It’s not everyday you see 1.8 GB/s long enough to grab a screenshot. Copying 122 GB of files from a Thunderbolt SSD RAID to the internal NVMe.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, both inside and out.
Apparently four and a half hours of yard work burns a lot of calories. Feeling pretty sore already, but on the plus side I think the leaves are finally taken care of for the season.
While I’m disappointed in the stability issues plaguing macOS Catalina and iOS 13, it’s impressive to see how rapidly Apple is pushing bug fixes recently.
Winter came a little bit early this year.
Spent the last two days at The Ohio Linux Fest. The last time I attended had maybe 150 attendees back in 2005. Now they have over 700 people registered and several conference tracks. Great to see the growth.
Seems that 32GB is no longer enough RAM for an iOS development box. I do have a 4GB virtual machine running that is “extra”, but I’m 11GB into swap even after closing some stuff out. Xcode alone is using over 6GB of RAM.
A Silent Forest in Central Michigan (reddit)
This past weekend the autumn colors were at their peak. I captured this while on a hike with a Canon 5D Mark IV and 16-35mm f4L IS lens.Â
*Rubs hands together* Wooo!! I’ve been configuring servers for months, and finally picked the perfect setup.
Ordered this Dell R6515 with a 16 core/32 thread AMD EPYC 2 CPU, 128GB of RAM, and 6TB of raw SSD storage. Can’t wait to see what it can do.
Here’s one of my favorite shots from the trip to Papua New Guinea…and it was taken on my iPhone.
Apple’s Midnight Blue leather iPhone case: new versus 2 years old. #patina
The dumbest change in iOS 13 is this button in Mail. Why the hell does it let the user do anything but Reply?
Trying to decide whether to install iOS 13 today, or just wait until 13.1 comes out next Tuesday. There must be some pretty big issues in 13 if Apple is pushing up the 13.1 release by a week.
So is the latest iPad OS 13 betas stable enough to install on a daily device? Really want to take advantage of some of the new Files features.
At the Micro.blog meetup. Howdy everyone…
The base 2019 Mac Pro only has a 256GB SSD; pathetic for a $6k computer. However, the bottom of the specs page on Apple’s site mentions Pegasus MPX Modules. The Pegasus 2Ji gives you a couple of 3.5” drive slots, and the 4Ri will give you an internal 4 disk RAID 5!
https://www.promise.com/us/Promotion/PegasusStorage
BTW, if you’re wanting to install Catalina on your Mac with APFS but don’t have a second drive, open Disk Utility and add a second volume.  It will share the storage with your primary volume, while still giving you a clean “partition†to work with.
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Just copied a 6GB file across the network in 8 seconds flat. 10GB Ethernet FTW.