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Heh, I bet you're somewhere with high bandwidth, no data caps and very low latency.

Here, I'm 30-60ms away from the big datacentres, and 200-400ms away from the US. Data is capped at ~500gb per month on the high end plans, and that's both upload and download. I'm lucky to get 10 megabits down, 1 megabit up on a good day.

Coupled with the fact our country's going to head back to the 1950s with the inevitable change of government next election, screw the cloud.




Australia?

But yeah, where I am I was on mobile internet for a year where I would go 2 weeks on a 2G connection and even on the 3G I had pings of 200~ to data centers in my city.


Guessed it. I was debating whether to mention it in my post.


Most of the people I know they didn't updagraded their Mac Pros ever in 3 to 6 years of use. I heard people upgrading memory, replacing discs, but the rest it should be intact. The Mac Pro is a nice machine for people who won't upgrade in 3 o 4 years, even more and still having power.

If they didn't release this, I would continue with the idea of making my Hackintosh but this new baby is nice.


South Africa here - we're also suffering from the fact that geographically "in the middle of nowhere". As for government, don't get me started.

But I'm curious - what's happening in Australia that makes you say that it's about to back to the 50s?




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