Wow, thanks for the super helpful responses, everyone. So nice to see a forum these days with wise hands and cool heads ;) Not sure if there is a way to do multi quote replies so I’ll respond one by one below - and well noted about the poor suboptimal timing of this build. This time period had a lot …

I’m piecing together a build from late ‘97 to early ‘98. It was a seminal year for me (halfway through my A-levels, my city being handed over to Mainland China (Hong Kong), girls and hormones aplenty. Oh, and boarding school in Scotland where my parents granted me one wish to take with me to help …

Love the write up, so very informative especially after all these years of just barely being able to remember the model names but not really their backstory or usage. Things that have stuck is the rising feeling as you enter a computer store in 1996-1998 (ok fine, that feeling still persists today) …

The imac pro had very advanced cooling allowing for powerful desktop processors. And desktop GPUs as well, don’t forget. There was a Vega 64 with 16GB and also the upgraded 64X version. I have to say that in the two years I had mine, it was whisper quiet even under heavy load. I would have kept it …

New Vogons user here. Photography is my bread & butter (jam). I own and operate a studio based in Hong Kong with plans to open a branch in Berlin soon. We use Canon, Sony and Mac almost exclusively and are predominantly a commercial lifestyle studio. Software-side we are using Capture One and Adobe. …

I bought and used an early iMac Pro in January of 2018 for just over two years (64GB, 3GHZ 10-core, Vega 56), selling just before AppleCare expired around April last year (aka early Covid). It was my daily driver in my photography studio and although I’m not in charge of retouching, I do handle all …