over the last few days i’ve put quite a lot of thought into my new computer purchase. my one nerdy friend commented that microsoft wont be supporting XP after SP3, and with all vista’s issues i felt that took the PC out of consideration, plus all the research and time it would take to put together the ideal system would be prohibitive because i want this computer ASAP. then, my other nerdy friend remarked that the imac probably wouldnt be that much more fast than my macbook, which, in the end, would be a waste of money. two kinda fast computers don’t make one superfast computer. so, mostly through process of elimination, i settled on the mac pro tower. here are the specs:
3.00 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
1GB 667 DDR2 FB DIMM ECC-2×512 (to be upgraded to 5GBs after purchase from crucial.com)
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
16x SuperDrive DL
Airprt Extrm & BT 2.0+EDR
WL Apple Kybd & WL Mgty Ms
Mac OS X
i’ll let you all out there on the internets know how my new mac pro works out for me. i really hope i’ll think its worth the money. if it disappoints, i think it will put a nail in the mac coffin for me.
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I’ ve purchased the same computer about a year ago. I had 5 GB ram from the beginning and coming from an old g5 1.8 1gb ram it felt like heaven!
Comment by Simone Magurno January 2, 2008 @ 5:08 amMore recently i’ve bought a MacBookPro (17″, 2.4Ghz, 4GB ram) since i’m now studying and working abroad and i expected its performance to be slightly inferior than the MacPro’s. Against my expectations i can say that some tasks are handled in a lot faster way by the MBP. When home from Christmas i made some tests with a clean installation of Leopard on the MacPro and things like startup time and app launching time take significantly longer. Didn’t have the time to test with heavy multitasking operations tough.