It'll fit perfectly and I can FINALLY open more than 3 Chrome tabs!
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It'll fit perfectly and I can FINALLY open more than 3 Chrome tabs!
Lack Rack FTW, though I don't know why you opened it's gate so wide, it should have fit just fine with default mounting holes.
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I'm familiar with it, but I doubt most people are.
Even a decent amount of my Enterprise Customers still don't use PXE boot.
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Meanwhile Imagine Communications Nexio just OEM's HPE Servers...
Makes a lot of sense. Was thinking of it in a server sense. - Though other vendors aren't exactly cheap about that either, so I'm not really sure about the whole pricing thing in this sector.
In any case, yeah; there's no particular reason to get a Mac server instead of Redhat, Ubuntu or whatever. Well, very very few reasons anyway.
How can an article on a rack mount Mac Pro (or a rack mount anything, for that matter) not include the number rack units it occupies?
Amazingly, unless I overlooked it, Apple’s own tech specs page doesn’t have this either. At 8.7” high, it looks like 5U, for the curious.
Amazingly, unless I overlooked it, Apple’s own tech specs page doesn’t have this either. At 8.7” high, it looks like 5U, for the curious.
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Of course. But not all code can run on the GPU, and the option is good to have, but in a system like the Mac Pro Rack, a case could be made for having it be optional.
And I just want to add to this, that a lot of what is offered in what is now the macOS Server app, is actually just a graphical front end Apple made for programs that you can run free of charge, and FOSS even, through the Terminal.
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To my knowledge, there's no special management port, so whilst it's less than ideal, I was thinking booting in Target Disk Mode to send over a configured system image to the device, with everything you need after boot set up to be launched by launchd
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Only if you need video output
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I’m sure the 3 nerds out there would totally benefit from such a completely obscure request like that.
I agree, or at the very least send it back to Apple for a discount, or when you buy it at a retail store (if they even have it in stock) allow them to recycle it for a discount.
When I worked at an Apple retail store we had to fight customers who wanted custom configurations of the PowerMac and MacPro but were charged for BOTH the standard hardware and upgrades.
We kept telling them to order it online but a lot of them didn't understand why we didn't just take the component out and keep it.
Look forward to having one of these as a $58 fancy end-table around 2032
Reminds me of the PowerMac G5 mailboxes.
Not too many, but there are some who will get this and try their best to us the Mac OS X "Server" plugin/firmware addon that Apple sells.
I'm just glad that the 9 year wait for a tru rack mountable Mac Pro is over.
The case has been changed a great deal from the picture alone. I'm sure there's more internally that's been adjusted. If we think of the current Mac Pro turned on it's side we can imagine the top Thunderbolt ports being removed or moved. The handle to open the case is gone. The fans need to be adjusted (heat rises) and a technician won't be able to access the "under side" of the case while it's in a rack.
Same here, and I was going to disagree with him at first but after reading your post both of you are correct.
Although, price wise it's still very inline with mid to high end server offerings from Boxx and Dell and HP.
You can, but there's no reason to buy the rack version and not put it in a rack.
It will be closed, but Apple is showing how the internals have been adjusted to have it make sense inside of a rack.
Have you actually priced one out yourself, or just reiterating what you read somewhere because a Dell Precision 7920 Rack @ $6400 gets you this:
- Intel Xeon Gold 6230 2.1GHz, 3.9GHz Turbo, 20C, 10.4GT/s 3UPI, 27.5MB Cache, HT
- Windows® 10 Pro for Workstation (4 Cores Plus) Multi - English
- Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000, 8GB, 3DP, VirtualLink (7920R)
- 48GB 6x8GB DDR4 2666MHz RDIMM ECC Memory
- 2.5" 512GB SATA Class 20 Solid State Drive
Incorrect. The true power is both the CLI and the UI/UX for the ecosystem of powerful professional applications to consumer applications that Linux will never have. All of this is based upon the world class application frameworks that Linux will never have.
Why does it have to be 5 Units?
Shouldn't need to be more than 3 Units, the max height of PCIe cards less than 130mm!
Also why does the CPU cooler have to be such a huge cube (150x150x150mm)?
GPU cards are often 200W+, much higher wattage than a CPU, and those coolers are only 40mm high.
When encoding video on the CPU, the fan is very much audible, yet I cannot hear the GPU fan cooler when encoding on the GPU.
So why are they not making CPU coolers in a form factor similar to GPU's??
All they are is like a Noctua N15 with the heat pipe/fins horizontally inline with the block instead of bent up vertically, loads of room on a motherboard to do this.
Shouldn't need to be more than 3 Units, the max height of PCIe cards less than 130mm!
Also why does the CPU cooler have to be such a huge cube (150x150x150mm)?
GPU cards are often 200W+, much higher wattage than a CPU, and those coolers are only 40mm high.
When encoding video on the CPU, the fan is very much audible, yet I cannot hear the GPU fan cooler when encoding on the GPU.
So why are they not making CPU coolers in a form factor similar to GPU's??
All they are is like a Noctua N15 with the heat pipe/fins horizontally inline with the block instead of bent up vertically, loads of room on a motherboard to do this.
Could be a nice alternative for a VDI host for CAD. Would definitely be worth trying.
I believe Apple will be holding off on this option seeing as now AMD has SKUs registered with the European Regulators and US Regulators for the following products:
RX 5950XT, RX 5950, and RX 5800XT.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Chiplet based GPGPUs are on the horizon. Akin to the Zen chiplet architecture from EPYC down to Threadripper and also Ryzen AMD has been working on Chiplet designs for GPUs.
The professional derived W series for workstations will arrive soon after.
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The Xserves could be configured with redundant power supplies, and user replaceable parts such as the logic board.
Yes, I do - it's in my ventilated closet.
I have an XSERVE 3,1 from 2011 that sounds like a jet engine with it's 8 fans.
I work in live entertainment and almost all of my gear is rack mounted. I could easily use a lower-mid spec Mac Pro.
Navi RX RX5800/5900/5950XT are at least six months away from shipping out in AIB form. Past Regulatory filings have been shown many months prior to launch. Apple doesn’t just change things up like that, it’s not in their nature.I believe Apple will be holding off on this option seeing as now AMD has SKUs registered with the European Regulators and US Regulators for the following products:
RX 5950XT, RX 5950, and RX 5800XT.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Chiplet based GPGPUs are on the horizon. Akin to the Zen chiplet architecture from EPYC down to Threadripper and also Ryzen AMD has been working on Chiplet designs for GPUs.
The professional derived W series for workstations will arrive soon after.
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Confirmation of four new Radeon RX 5000-series SKUs came to light as AIB partner AFOX pushed them to regulators at the Eurasian Economic Commission. EEC filings have been a reliable early-sign of upcoming PC hardware. All thee new SKUs are positioned above the Radeon RX 5700 XT launched last...www.techpowerup.com
My sense is that most racked Mac Pros will be used for:
- Render farms
- AI/ML
- Mobile photo/video capture rigs
I don't think people are going to be using them much for commodity compute servers.
I agree. I dug around in the various pages and it is indeed 5U. A bit on the thick side.
Apple already lists the W5700X as “Coming Soon”. There will no doubt be additional options added mid-cycle over the next 2-3 years until the Mac Pro gets new CPUs.I believe Apple will be holding off on this option seeing as now AMD has SKUs registered with the European Regulators and US Regulators for the following products:
RX 5950XT, RX 5950, and RX 5800XT.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Chiplet based GPGPUs are on the horizon. Akin to the Zen chiplet architecture from EPYC down to Threadripper and also Ryzen AMD has been working on Chiplet designs for GPUs.
The professional derived W series for workstations will arrive soon after.
RX 5950 XT, RX 5950, and RX 5800 XT: New AMD Radeon SKUs Reach Regulators
Confirmation of four new Radeon RX 5000-series SKUs came to light as AIB partner AFOX pushed them to regulators at the Eurasian Economic Commission. EEC filings have been a reliable early-sign of upcoming PC hardware. All thee new SKUs are positioned above the Radeon RX 5700 XT launched last...
It could be that Apple itself will be it's best customer, it sure looks like they made the Mac pro to match what they need. TV+, AI, AR, software compiling and remote desktop.
I think the addressable market is too small to support three headless Macs. Similar to the unlikelihood of ever getting an iPad Pro mini.
I’d be a buyer for both, but I just don’t think the demand is sufficient 😢
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