I was running a production system on my laptop and it was growing fast with real data. My single threaded application is both CPU bound and memory bound depending one which phase it is in.
So I needed to maximize both CPU and ram.
I considered the Mac Mini, but that wouldn't have been much faster than my current early 2013 Macbook Pro Retina. The Mac Pro is pretty fast, but would be paying for useless graphics cards.
What I ended up doing is creating a Hackintosh. Now very recently you've probably seen many sites try to price out a Hackintosh to compare it to the new Mac Pro and most of them lost. But the problem is they had to include dual professional graphics cards which are very pricey.
In the end here is how the pieces fell together:
| Name | CPU | RAM | Storage | Price (in CAD) | 32-bit Single-Core Geekscore |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Mini | 2.6 GHz Quad i7 | 16 GB | 256 SSD | $1,419 | 2899 |
| Mac Pro | 3.7 GHz Quad Xeon E5 | 64 GB | 1 TB SSD | $5,199 | 3299 |
| Hackintosh | 3.5GHz Quad i7 | 32 GB | 1 TB SSD | $1,775 | 3590 |
Now the comparison isn't directly 1:1 nor fair, but my main point is there is a lot of wiggle room between a Mac Mini and a Mac Pro. Apple can definitely fill this hole with more offerings.
The full details of my Hackintosh.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H80I | $109.99 |
| Corsair Vengeance Black 32GB DDR3-1600 | $341.04 |
| Intel Core i7 4770K Quad Core 3.5GHZ | $309.99 |
| Gigabyte Z87M-D3H | $119.99 |
| Silverstone Evolution 750W | $154.99 |
| Samsung 840 Evo Series 1TB | $559.99 |
| SilverStone FT03 | $179.99 |
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