People still miss the forest for the trees: the Mac Pro is designed for the future, not the past, and gets much of its performance from the extra GPU. Luckily, I'm buying for the future too!
And that SSD!
I don't believe you're required to allow drives to sleep. And I don't think Thunderbolt makes drives sleep in some way that is different from internal bays.
P.S. It's fun to see people who would never buy 24 cores complain to other people who would never buy 24 cores that they wish they could buy 24 cores. "Bullet list marketing" at its finest Catchy specs over results? No mention of OpenCL, even from people who like to brag about performance numbers?
And that SSD!
It's really annoying to have a really powerful Mac Pro bottlenecked when you press "open with..." on something and have to wait for an external hard drive to wake up while Finder hangs.
I don't believe you're required to allow drives to sleep. And I don't think Thunderbolt makes drives sleep in some way that is different from internal bays.
P.S. It's fun to see people who would never buy 24 cores complain to other people who would never buy 24 cores that they wish they could buy 24 cores. "Bullet list marketing" at its finest Catchy specs over results? No mention of OpenCL, even from people who like to brag about performance numbers?