Mac Pro
My slow conversion to Macs is now complete with the addition of a mac pro workstation. 8 cores 32gigs of ram (just kidding on the ram i’d have to auction off the kids to afford that. 2gigs currently) Before you congratulate me and welcome me to the “Cult of Apple” let me just say that i’m not a mac convert but rather a windows defector. I am in exile while vista rules the windows world of MS. But i do have to say, that despite crashing this uncrashable machine the second day and watching as the mac pro, while working with adobe software, cries like a baby asking for much more ram, i do like the machine. It’s pretty. Open it up and you’ll see the best designed Personal Computer ever made. Where did all of the cords go.. wish my office could be like that. So clean inside, so utopian, so proprietary, so THX-1138. Think i’ll go watch that one again. Who knows, i’m starting to like the machine, maybe shortly i’ll be droning how beautiful everything apple is soon. Off to buy a black turtle neck and some blue jeans.
go to http://www.crucial.com to buy some more ram.
Great stuff man! I have a crusty dual PPC powermac from 2006. It’s still chuggin’ along great. MACs run forever. Install Quicksilver for speedy application access. Grab the firefox 3 beta too, it rocks! Also Menumeters will give you a great unobtrusive memory/disk/network graph in your top bar. –all free!
Good luck!
Mark
welcome my friend. i’ll send over a fresh batch of grape kool aid the next time i am in town!
really strange how just as i’m beginning to consider really going for a mac pro. two different people have posted about recently buying one.
and yeah definitely go after market on the ram, when i get mine i’ll be adding ram by the company iRam, on newegg it’s $210 for a pair of 2gb sticks. $420 added to the stock and you’ll be humming along with 10gigs. that’s my plan anyways.
I just saw your tag line ‘there’s no spellcheck in life’. Funny. I was thinking just the other day about there not being a Control-Z in life. You know…when you something dumb and your first thought is Control-Z…maybe that’s just me. Anyway, I guess that’s Option-Z for you now.
WTF!!! What’s next?? An iPhone with a cup of Starbucks?????
Man, everyone has one of those but me now! Damnit! Congrats on finally getting all 8 of those cores you’ve been lusting after.