The Mac Pro project Conclusion!
Sam
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Well after a ton of questions and a lot of research I have made my decision.
First I chose the Mac Pro because of the stable 64 bit operating system, and reputation, ability to add more RAM up to 32 GB, I can with the present confiuration add another 8 GB of RAM for $200.00. and betting the 8 cores can better ustilized with future releases of Adobe products. Although there is a premium to pay for the Mac, it isn't nearly as much as one might think if you buy a win machine with any where near the same computing power, and components.
Here is all the stuff on order. Mac Pro 8 core with 8 GB (4X2GB) RAM, ATI 4870 graphics card, airport card. I also bought the 3 year Apple care and one on one service.
I also ordered the following from OWC: One external two bay Icy Dock raid enclosure, one Voyager single disk (toaster) external drive, (3) 2 TB hard drives, ( 2 configured to raid 1 connected to computer, 1 rotated off site (1) 1 TB hard drive, ( to back up clone bootable OS and apps) (1) DVD burner with LightScibe, (4) 1TB fast internal hard drives. 1 for OS and apps, 1 scratch disk, (2) for data, images, set up in RAID 0 for max R/W speed.
I also ordered lightroom.
I am soo broke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just sharing my joy, and total abuse of my credit card.
D :scratch :barb :cry
Sam
First I chose the Mac Pro because of the stable 64 bit operating system, and reputation, ability to add more RAM up to 32 GB, I can with the present confiuration add another 8 GB of RAM for $200.00. and betting the 8 cores can better ustilized with future releases of Adobe products. Although there is a premium to pay for the Mac, it isn't nearly as much as one might think if you buy a win machine with any where near the same computing power, and components.
Here is all the stuff on order. Mac Pro 8 core with 8 GB (4X2GB) RAM, ATI 4870 graphics card, airport card. I also bought the 3 year Apple care and one on one service.
I also ordered the following from OWC: One external two bay Icy Dock raid enclosure, one Voyager single disk (toaster) external drive, (3) 2 TB hard drives, ( 2 configured to raid 1 connected to computer, 1 rotated off site (1) 1 TB hard drive, ( to back up clone bootable OS and apps) (1) DVD burner with LightScibe, (4) 1TB fast internal hard drives. 1 for OS and apps, 1 scratch disk, (2) for data, images, set up in RAID 0 for max R/W speed.
I also ordered lightroom.
I am soo broke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just sharing my joy, and total abuse of my credit card.
D :scratch :barb :cry Sam
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It. Just. Works.
That's a lot of power and storage you're getting there! Have fun with it and be sure to give us a progress report!
Couldn't be happier with the way this machine has performed for me!
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I only have 14 Gb Ram in mine, but it seems to work adequately just the same. I have about 8 Tb of storage scattered about inside and out.
Like Andy, I never power mine off unless I am going to be out of town.
It is dead quiet, I hardly ever hear it at all.
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Well this makes mefeel even better ! I just bought a New (Old Stock) mac Pro. I dont have the info on me now but I hope it is everything I have heard on Macs. I have to use a Windows for Work but my MAC is for my Photography. I will buy mac for the house next year.