How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists

Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by strictnein on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:48PM (#13224402)

Those are some really interesting options. I recently picked up a new Asus Zenbook ux330ua (basically Macbook Air, but significantly better specs and ~$500 less) for mobile use and was going to start looking for a new desktop option.

I really like building my own systems, so buying one prebuilt would be strange, but that's some serious hardware for pretty nice prices.

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Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by olegkikin on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:46PM (#13224990)

You could, but you have to be really careful with the motherboard socket, because Intel went a bit crazy with LGA2011:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7773/intels-three-versions-of-...

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Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by strictnein on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:25PM (#13232309)

Yeah, if I built my own, I would probably end up just going with an i7-6700K and something like this:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GsX88K

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Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by olegkikin on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:31PM (#13232366)

Meh. I'd rather get one of the dual-xeon setups I listed. For the same price you're getting a quarter of the ram, half the processing power, a quarter of the CPU cache. It will do better in single-threaded apps, so it all depends on the tasks you're facing. I do lots of 3D rendering, so I'd pick more cores, RAM and cache.

The other advantages of your setup are power efficiency and NVMe.

Oh, and btw, you will save yourself a ton of money if you just bid on the components on eBay. Take, for instance the CPU. You're going to pay $325 for it. Now check how much they auction for:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=15&LH...

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