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Apple Engineers Explain New Mac Pro's Innovative Cooling Features
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Given the cost to develop the Pro Line, I wonder how profitable it is; as the sales price is prohibitive for most prosumers. At half-price; it would be something that the "average" (imho) prosumer would consider. But, unless you make a bit more than the average engineer/programmer - I just can't imagine dropping that kind of coin.
Bottom line: Does Apple realize a Net Profit off this line?
Bottom line: Does Apple realize a Net Profit off this line?
The low noise levels are going to make it so much better for my home theatre computer.
Liquid Cooling simply uses a liquid as a "very efficient" means of moving heat away from components. The Heat still needs to be dissipated, you have a hot liquid instead of hot solids. Liquids are easier to transfer heat - or a "heat exchanger" as most facility managers would call it.
Now, you have a new set of problems. You have a warm liquid, that tends to do one of two things; become a bio-broth of bacteria, algae, fungus and clog up the system; or a highly toxic broth that may corrode the materials through which it flows. The warm liquid will flow across dissimilar metals, plastics, silicon based seals and likely come in contact with air.
If the heating, corrosion and eventual oxidation create a crack, the liquid is under pressure and will begin to leak, as it leaks you now have what is likely a highly conductive liquid spreading across your electronics.
There are liquids that are less likely to do this, such as florinerts - but they are expensive and toxic and generally not sold into the consumer market.
The article answers your question about why Apple engineered the cooling system, and I'm thinking that Apple knows what it's doing in this regard.
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I remember converting my old liquid cooled G5 to air cooled. Didn't care about the fan noise.
Personally, I find pump noise more annoying than fan noise. There are a number of videos comparing Air and Liquid, and most conclude that air is quieter and more effective than CLCs. CLCs are certainly not the same as custom loops, but custom loops are expensive, require maintenance, and take easy modularity out of the equation.
I like how Apple did the cooling, from a “I’ve watched reviews” perspective.
It's too bad no one else has ever manufactured a quiet fan. It's a good thing we have Apple to invent things!
I always love when Apple talks about the thought process, engineering, and “under-the-hood” improvements of their products.
Flash forward to today and LCs are still junk. When they fail it's sudden which leaves no cooling on the CPU and thus you brick your system.
They were much more mainstream machines back then. These days the market is much smaller and more niche. So small, that they're not even going to the trouble of setting up an assembly line in China.
It's safe to say things have a changed since the G5 days, some 15 years ago.
What is its Geekbench score and how fast can it render 8k video?
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How innovative is it really? It's cooling fans... I never hear my Noctua's either.....
Do your homework! The price is not outlandish to a Windows Workstation, the thingy you are missing is the cost of the Xeon W chips from Intel. While, these appear to be custom builds from intel (have way more cache than standard Ws), the cost is comparable. Of course you have to do some work to find it, because these Xeon's are new and the ECC memory to support them is difficult to find. I found some slower 128GB sticks to proof the cost of the 1.5 TB build, and just the sticks alone cost over $20,000 - and there were the slower 2666. Of course, you could compare to an i7, that's way cheaper
Could someone please explain to me how rotating the XDR display would “reduce with[sic] the air flow through fins...”?
1) maybe Noctua is doing a similar thing on the fans, 2) the whole solution was being discussed, not just the fans, but the creation of air tunnels to increase the cooling.
The design is wonderful and very functional. Remember some of the best design inspiration come from everyday items.
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