NEW Mac PRO PC...

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NEW Mac PRO PC...

Postby jdear on Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:16 am

the new G5 killer with intel chips...

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

Ill have mine with 16GB of Ram...!

yummmm

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Postby losfp on Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:31 am

If you spec it up to maximum specs, it costs a cool $28k ;)

Add on a 7TB XServe RAID... and you have a hell of a lot of RAW file storage :)
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Postby huynhie on Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:33 am

I have to say, it looks very sexy. 8)
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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:54 pm

It looks just like the old one.

And you've been able to buy G5 cases in the past for about 200 bucks.

That said, Quad-SLI might be useful, but using the most piss-poor cards for it is just downright stupid.
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Postby ekynox on Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:07 pm

Mac Pro with 16 gigs of ram shucks now i'm in the dinosaur age. 16gigs of ram isn't that tad too much :-) Converting raw to jpeg will be quicker than a heart beat.

I also have dreamt of having a mac pro, all its gonna be is dream for me.
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Postby !~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! on Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:04 pm

so where can we buy upgrades locally....yea not happening....mac....spew lol no i wont ever change my mind
does look funky tho...needs water cooling neon pipes ;)
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Postby Steffen on Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:23 am

!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! wrote:so where can we buy upgrades locally....yea not happening....mac....spew lol no i wont ever change my mind
does look funky tho...needs water cooling neon pipes ;)


Not sure what you're asking. Where to buy more RAM? More/better GPUs? Disks? Theres' nothing you couldn't buy from the Oz Apple Store, or NextByte, or Streetwise, or...

The Mac Pro runs very cool (unlike the PowerMac G5), with big fans going at about 700 rpms. It is practically inaudible, too. No liquid cooling.

I've built and used countless PCs, and they all ran hotter and louder than the Mac Pro. You might wanna take those blinkers off... ;)

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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:23 am

I'd say that depends on the PC you were building or using at the time.

But that said, Intel have certainly designed a better chip this time around cooling wise.

I guess they finally had to catch up to AMD design-wise...
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