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Are you off by one order of magnitude? Or does this cost as much as a couple quite nice cars.

I was looking at a six figure workstation last week, including GPUs. The goal is to replace 2-3 loud servers in my home lab with something more compact and quiet.

What do you do with your "home lab" that can't run on a consumer-level desktop? I'm genuinely curious.

Currently I'm revisiting some proteomics work I did as part of a DARPA project a while ago, as well as experiments with cinema ready geo-located media workflows.

It helps with my day job too, indirectly.

I spend a whole bunch more time at my Mac than I do in a car, and gain much more value from it too, so that doesn't seem unreasonable...

I’ve connected to plenty of machines that are worth more than my car (although it isn’t as if my car was $35000 in the first place, that’s a bit excessive!). I was just using cars as a unit of measurement, to aid intuition. Maybe I was too circuitous in my original comment.

I only see prices in the 7k range on the site.

Cars don’t usually become obsolete and borderline worthless after 5 years.

i still use my 2013 macbook pro and it still works great and fast

What’s its resale value compared to what you paid? It’s just the nature of technology.

I can buy one for $100, literally a fraction of what you paid originally for it.

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