Greetings All.
I'm preparing to purchase a new Mac Pro in the next month or so. Photoshop and Aperture will be used on this machine. I'll be pairing it with a desktop LCD monitor, probably a 23" ACD.
I'd be curious to hear from other users, particularly Aperture and Photoshop users. Per the advice of others, I'm leaning towards the following configuration:
2.66GHZ (3ghZ comes at a pretty hefty mark-up and the gains don't seem substantial).
4GB RAM (I've read that RAM should be installed in matched pairs, so 4 x 1GB. I'll order the machine with the base 2 x 512MB and order the RAM elsewhere, as it will be cheaper. Would it be bad to keep the 2x512MB and add it to the 4x1GB for a total of 5GB? I know that might upset the 256bit memory architecture. Otherwise, I guess I could see the 2x512MB
Radeon X1900 - (I heard this upgrade is recommended for Aperture)
Hard Drive - I'll go with the stock drive and add later.
So I'd love to hear from other users, particularly on RAM or any other thoughts
I'm preparing to purchase a new Mac Pro in the next month or so. Photoshop and Aperture will be used on this machine. I'll be pairing it with a desktop LCD monitor, probably a 23" ACD.
I'd be curious to hear from other users, particularly Aperture and Photoshop users. Per the advice of others, I'm leaning towards the following configuration:
2.66GHZ (3ghZ comes at a pretty hefty mark-up and the gains don't seem substantial).
4GB RAM (I've read that RAM should be installed in matched pairs, so 4 x 1GB. I'll order the machine with the base 2 x 512MB and order the RAM elsewhere, as it will be cheaper. Would it be bad to keep the 2x512MB and add it to the 4x1GB for a total of 5GB? I know that might upset the 256bit memory architecture. Otherwise, I guess I could see the 2x512MB
Radeon X1900 - (I heard this upgrade is recommended for Aperture)
Hard Drive - I'll go with the stock drive and add later.
So I'd love to hear from other users, particularly on RAM or any other thoughts