ProMax One 16Core vs the MacPros

Since hardware and speeds seems to be a hot topic I think this set of Barefeats tests are interesting.

ProMax One 16Core vs the MacPros
http://barefeats.com/sandy01.html

I just rebuilt a PC for my Fairlight and used a Corsair water cooler with a nice big fan. Makes the same noise as my MacPro but as both are inside a machine room with Raven sealed sound proof doors I can't hear a thing anyway.

There is no reason to have a noisy computer these days regardless of platform.

Wake up, peoplee Apple has ceded this market sector to the Windows-compatible hardware vendors. Sad but true. At this point, the only people who are missing out on the hardware fun are the FCP X fans and the Smoke on OS X hopefuls. Autodesk had better wake up and smell the Windows coffee, lest they be relegated to OS X irrelevance.

The thing that amazed me about that comparison: a Mac Pro has FOUR slots for memory, the ProMAX ONE has SIXTEEN slots. Running with memory in the same neighborhood as the Mac was like fighting with, uhm, three hands tied behind its back.

[Daniel Frome] "That machine is a monster. Throw in a quadro card..."

That's the thing. You can do more with it.

Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou

[Devin Crane] "Actually the Mac Pro has 8 slots depending on single chip or dual chip."

Quite so. Thanks for the correction. I'll be more careful.

I doublechecked the ProMAX ONE though -- still has 16. :-)

Thanks again,
Tim

Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou

The ProMax One looks like a beast of a workstation but one major flaw with it I see. WINDOWS! Sorry but Apple hasn't ticked me off that badly yet for me to change over.