The other noticable change has been Nvidia's release of their RTX line of graphics cards. They're still based on a 14nm process but Intel now has 8 core chips based on Coffee Lake using a newer Z390 chipset. Not much has changed in the Intel landscape since my last build. Long ago I became acquainted with Shuttle XPC brand barebone SFF PCs and had built three over the years, including an AMD64 system running Gentoo Linux with a minimal window manager I loved at the time called fluxbox that I took to college my freshman year. This time I knew I wanted to go for a much smaller SFF (Small Form Factor) mini-ITX build, but something that wouldn't compromise on performance too much, or at all. (I also downsized to a smaller NAS storage device). My large desktop computer tower was my first target. I fully expected I would end up in a smaller apartment in New York than what I had in San Francisco. In preparation for the big cross-country move, I wanted to slim down some of my possessions. In February 2019 I said goodbye to San Francisco-my home for almost 9 years-and moved to New York. Haven't yet updated my Lightroom PC post, but I recently built a tiny i9 9900K + RTX 2080 Ti PC /gEi0agfWRp- Paul Stamatiou 📷 JWhy did you build a new PC? If anything, the Mac Pro news is perfect time for you, the casual prosumer hobbyist photographer/videographer/gamer, to consider building your own PC. So that leaves us where we started last year when I wrote this article: building a custom Windows 10 PC is a fantastic option for those desiring more power and the ability to continually and easily update the performance and capabilities of their computer as they see fit. It's exceedingly unlikely that the Mac Pro will find its way into many households, but rather fit in at creative agencies that will put it to work for advanced video editing and rendering. Not prosumers or advanced hobbyists like I might categorize myself. Ones that can justify the minimum business expense of at least $11,000 for a base model Mac Pro and display. And while it is a beast of a machine with custom graphics modules and can be configured with up to 28 cores and 1.5TB of RAM and can be paired along with an amazing 6K 32-inch Pro Display XDR, it is decidedly for actual creative professionals. Then at WWDC 2019, Apple announced the new Mac Pro. Only the iMac Pro, which has the same problem iMacs have always had: they don't come with the most bleeding edge high-end components and after you purchase it you can't ever upgrade it as easily as you can swap out a graphics card or motherboard and CPU in a PC to jump to the next generation. When I wrote this post, the new Apple Mac Pro was purely rumor and had not been announced. Still a better choice than a Mac?Ī custom PC for my photo-editing and development is definitely still the right choice for me. The updated PC setup in my NYC apartment.

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