Re:Apple M1 Ultra
by manigandham on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:15PM
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The market is not data center use.
You'll still spend another Mac Studio on energy in order to run a comparable PC for the next five years. To say nothing about not wanting to be in the same room as its fans.
Re:Apple M1 Ultra
by manigandham on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:50PM
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What are you talking about? This is not for cloud datacenters trying to squeeze every bit of compute per resource.
These machines are commonly used by professionals in industries like movie and music production. They don't care what the power bill is, it's insignificant compared to the cost of the employee using the hardware.
> "They don't care what the power bill is"
Oh... They do. At least, they should. If a similar PC costs $500 less but you spend $700 more in electricity per year because of it, at the end of the year, your profits will show the difference.
Re:Apple M1 Ultra
by manigandham on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:05AM
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As I said, these numbers are so insignificant that they don't matter. The cost of the employee and their productive is several magnitudes more.
I ran a visual effects company a decade ago. We bought the fastest machines we could because saving time for production was important. The power draw was never a factor; a few catered lunches alone would dwarf the power bill.
Watts are dollars that you'll continue spending over the system life. It matters because you can only draw so many amps per rack and there will be a point when, in order to get more capacity, you'll need to build another datacenter.