Aquinus
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| System Name | Apollo |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i9 9880H |
| Motherboard | Some proprietary Apple thing. |
| Memory | 64GB DDR4-2667 |
| Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2 |
| Storage | 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External |
| Display(s) | Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays |
| Case | MacBook Pro (16", 2019) |
| Audio Device(s) | AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
| Power Supply | 96w Power Adapter |
| Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
| Keyboard | Logitech G915, GL Clicky |
| Software | MacOS 12.1 |
...or for software engineers who write software for servers, or for people who do genomics, or for people who do machine learning and/or big data processing. The people who need a machine like this aren't using them for video games alone, they're using it for real practical purposes. If I'm writing some software, having a machine with more cores tells me if what I've built will scale. With the 3820, I just assume that if I can saturate at least all of the physical cores, that it's good enough but, I don't really know if it will scale to something more so, when I deploy stuff to say, Google Cloud Platform, I usually will opt for smaller VM instances. Having memory lets me do things like extra caching for database (which can improve PostgreSQL performance by leaps and bounds,) or it could let me use something like Redis for caching. It can also let me spin up VMs that reflect an entire system because I have the physical hardware to actually support it as opposed to needing to use a cloud solution that costs money. Simply put, the people who buy a machine like this for gaming alone indeed is doing it just because they can and would like to gloat about it however, not everyone who buys something like this is doing it for that reason.
With that said, on servers (including VMs,) the boot disk is rarely the largest or the fastest drive in the machine so, booting from NVMe raid to me, seems silly. You can always mount something after the kernel has loaded, even on Windows.