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Or you can buy an HP Z820. OSX is pretty much moot for workstation grade machines. The software is all cross platform.Depends on the software you use. For scientific computing, maybe.
For other tasks a Mac Pro would be used, no. Logic Pro, for example, is not cross platform. Neither is Final Cut Pro. And even if I depend on something like Adobe CC, most multimedia pros prefer to use it on the Mac, because of other benefits of using OS X.
>And wires dangling everywhere? To get anything other than comedy storage, you're going to need a pile of lightning devices hanging off it.
Or just a cable and a NAS.
But that's the outside, which is a given that you'd need multiple disks. Ever seen a video pro using just the internal HDs on his Desktop machine? Each project usally takes a whole disk by itself. Nobody uses the internal disks for 4K work.
>And don't give me all that crap about Apple being tried and tested - last MacBook Pro I had was totally unreliable.
Sure it was, as were several other units from the 1-2 million sold of the same MBP production run.
Now lets see how many unreliables you'd get from 1-2 million different self-built PCs.
That's the comparison that matters.
Depends on the software you use. For scientific computing, maybe.
For other tasks a Mac Pro would be used, no. Logic Pro, for example, is not cross platform. Neither is Final Cut Pro. And even if I depend on something like Adobe CC, most multimedia pros prefer to use it on the Mac, because of other benefits of using OS X.
>And wires dangling everywhere? To get anything other than comedy storage, you're going to need a pile of lightning devices hanging off it.
Or just a cable and a NAS.
But that's the outside, which is a given that you'd need multiple disks. Ever seen a video pro using just the internal HDs on his Desktop machine? Each project usally takes a whole disk by itself. Nobody uses the internal disks for 4K work.
>And don't give me all that crap about Apple being tried and tested - last MacBook Pro I had was totally unreliable.
Sure it was, as were several other units from the 1-2 million sold of the same MBP production run.
Now lets see how many unreliables you'd get from 1-2 million different self-built PCs.
That's the comparison that matters.