The Mac Pro

[Ishcabittle]

Quad core, 64-bit Xeon processors "Winchester" core, up to 3.0 GHz.

Pow.

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

Pricey? Yes. Drop dead gorgeous? Yes.

 

[Ishcabittle]

Correction: Woodcrest cores.

16GB ECC 667MHz DDR2 RAM ain't half bad neither.

 

[Ishcabittle]

How about 2TB of internal storage? You can get that anywhere, but this is screwless hotswappable.

 

[Ishcabittle]

The "suggested" configuration:

Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors
4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive
16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

$2,499.00

 

[Ishcabittle]

Okay, I'll say this... it's too expensive. There should be a $1,999.00 option, but this is the debut, they'll bring the price down in four to five months. For what you get, you could spend $1,000 less and get comparable hardware.

But then again, it does look great. :guffaw: I guess you could argue that they've got their efficient architecture and everything is designed to work seemlessly and whatnot, but unfortunately, the Mac Pro, as cool as it is to a Mac head like me, is just not a practical purchase.

I still want one.

 

[Ishcabittle]

You see I'm talking to myself because everyone else hates Macs. This is not spam.

 

[Friday]

I'm drooling as I'm typing, Ishy.

But I have my heart set on saving up for a MacBook Pro.

Someday...someday...

 

[bad dog]

That is HOT ,nobody sells mac where I live. I would like to run one and check it out before I buy one.

 

[Ishcabittle]

I just want to dual boot Mac OS X and WindowsXP on that shit. Just to see how it handles windows. I bet it destroys it.

 

[FBI parte due]

18 thousand for a tricked out one?

Yeesh.

 

[Conchaga]

If this didn't give you a hardon, I don't know what would.

 

[FBI parte due]

My avatar doesn't do it for you?

 

[Ishcabittle]

LOL.

Here's the tricked out config:

Specifications

* Two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
* 16GB (8 x 2GB)
* 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
* Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
* Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
* 2 x SuperDrives
* Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
* Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
* Mac OS X - U.S. English
* Mac OS X Server (Unlimited-Client)
* AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro/Power Mac (w/or w/o Display) Auto-enroll

$17,534.00

 

[FBI parte due]

Oops. Yeah. I added the extra thousand dollars' worth of software, too.

 

[Ishcabittle]

When you're already spending $17,000 what's another grand on software?

 

[bad dog]

When you're already spending $17,000 what's another grand on software?

With a powerhouse like that you may want a GOOD HDDV camera in the $2,000-$20,000 range so you can use it for what is made for.

 

[Ishcabittle]

So if we're wishing, why not wish big?

So we're at around $37,500.00 plus tax. What else? 60GB iPod Video, just to be trendy.

$37,800.00

 

[bad dog]

Upgrade the dvd burner to one with a light scribe.

 

[Grandtheftcow]

All you need to know about Macs.

 

[Ishcabittle]

All you need to know about Macs.

Old. Lame.

It's not that virus makers simply don't care, they just aren't ambitious enough to crack the Unix core when Windows is open and waiting for them. Wide open.