AnandTech Review of the 2009 Mac Pro

[VirtualRain]

I have to get out of this forum more often!

Look what I found... http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3597

I'll add my 2-cents after I finish reading it. All I can say for now is it's about time someone did a decent review of this machine!

EDIT: It seems there's nothing there that hasn't been discussed Ad nauseam.

Some notable quotes or quotable notes...

I hate to sound like a broken record but I can’t stress the upside to having a SSD in any machine, especially the Mac Pro. I’ll give you my history with the Mac Pro before diving into some of the details on what a fast SSD will do for one of these systems.

Even the upgraded video card, the Radeon HD 4870 only comes with 512MB of GDDR5 memory. Apple charges an extra $200 for that card, even though that’s how much the 4870 1GB cards cost at Newegg. I have no problems with Apple making money, but not even offering a single 1GB graphics card is silly; especially when more memory is actually useful.

The entry level 2.26GHz Xeons for the 8-core Mac Pro are ridiculous given the price point of the system, but so are the upgrade prices for the 2.66GHz and 2.93GHz processors.

If you have a Mac Pro from last year and aren't doing a lot of heavily threaded work, stick a SSD in your machine, it'll feel better than new.