Those who have a 2013 Mac Pro, what type of work do you do?

[Hieveryone]

DVD/blu-ray menus primarily. You know like scene selection or POV.

I gotcha. Cool job. Do they pay pretty good? If that's too personal ignore it 🙂

 

[wesk702]

I gotcha. Cool job. Do they pay pretty good? If that's too personal ignore it 🙂

Pay is good, benefits even better.

 

[maplingstorie]

I bought mine for Facebook. Using my rmbp on the bed and nMP when I'm sitting down

 

[SodomySquirrel]

I have the base 6c D500.

I use it for youtube 1080p

 

[DVNIEL]

Registered nurse. I bought one to have a mac comparable to the beast in my sig. Occasional photography as a hobby.

 

[Hieveryone]

I bought mine for Facebook. Using my rmbp on the bed and nMP when I'm sitting down

I was going to do this. But they told me in the store that I don't need a Mac Pro for web browsing, calendar, iMessages, numbers, etc. They were like get an iMac. Anyway, I ended up getting a 13" MBPr which I connect to an external monitor.

I always think...maybe I should've gotten the Mac Pro! What do you do for a living? It's really expensive for what you use it for...

 

[Scifience]

Stock 6-core with upgrade to 64GB RAM.

I'm a data scientist, working primarily with custom Ruby code, Stata/MP, and MATLAB.

 

[kingtj]

I went with the stock 6 core too, and a 64GB upgrade

I work in I.T. and like a few others here - often use virtual machines. Truthfully, I could do what I need with the high end iMac but then I wouldn't have as flexible a monitor configuration as the 3 matched 27" displays I use now.

I need the screen space when I do remote support and take control of servers or people's desktops while keeping my email open on another display.

On the side, I game a bit and do some video editing and music creation.

 

[itsmrjon]

8 core/64 gb ram/d700 here

Computational physics/applied math.

I develop fluid flow simulation algorithms and software in fortran/c++/python/opencl.

Why 8 cores? Allows me to test MPI implementations before deploying on clusters. Didn't really see a need to go up to 12, and most of my code doesn't run fast enough on 4. Consumer chipsets really can't do the job for me, hence xeon.

Why d700? Visualization of 3d data sets in VisIt and paraview. Also developing opencl code before deploying on clusters.

Why mac over a rhel workstation? Personal preference. Code runs on all nix platforms.

 

[thekev]

how is it speed performance on AE complex project? I just worry it not as good as top of line iMac , as it use AMD video card .😕

You should familiarize yourself with what actually uses CUDA. It may be important to your work or it may be absolutely useless.