Thanks. To be clear, I didn't just win the lottery, and I'm not looking to spend as much money as possible! It just occurred to me that I had never seen the question asked in the form, "What's the best possible system in theory, regardless of money?," and that that might be an instructive starting place for discussing the implications of various hardware choices. Understandably, the question is virtually always framed as "What system gives you the best value for your money?," which is a great but slightly different question. Here's an example of what I mean, again from the top of the market, but it could apply equally to the high middle of the market. The "trash can" Mac Pro is configurable three ways in terms of processors:
- 3.5GHz 6-Core (with Turbo Boost up to 3.9 GHz
- 3.0GHz 8-Core
- 2.7GHz 12-core
My priority, as I said, is to work with as low a buffer setting as possible while actually sequencing. So, which is the best choice for working with DP and VEP? With each increase in the number of cores, processor speed drops, so it's not clear which choice would better help me reach my holy grail of working at 128. This is a question that would need to be answered with custom PC's as well.
PL