Maciej![]() Veteran ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 297 Joined: 12/19/2003 Location: Paris ![]() | Hi Jim, My response as yours was to Jim Easter's question on buying an old Apple MacPro from 2010. Not for me to judge but he doesn't sound like someone with sufficient capacities or even needs to embark on a series of VMs. In simplistic format; fewer cores rather than many cores, higher clock speeds are better than slower clock speeds, memory not a lot and a SSD because OT uses small volumes. You don't seem to emphasize the CPU speed which is strange. Based on your explanations as well as mine, I suggest that we can surmise for Jin's benefit that the 2010 Apple wil not deliver as much as a similar 700-800 USD on a more modern processor (PowerSupply=150+I7=350+SSD=120+RAM=80+Case=50+Motherboard=100)=850. These prices are off the cuff so need checking and I'm assuming that a monitor/keyboard/mouse cost the same irrespective of processsor. As to Nirvana's knife-balancing act all I can say is that I'm glad that they are fully aware and lucky for all of us that OT does not use the IOS platform where Apple made it obligatory to move from 32 to 64. I sure that Microsoft won't do that will they. |