...and I thought I was just buying a Mac Pro.

[wesk702]

Actually, I am trying to see how cool a apple logo will look on my leather jacket under the harley emblem...

If you do, please send me a picture for my newest website, worldsgheyistbiker.com

 

[dgdosen]

So here's a question... As I wait for my MacPro to be delivered tomorrow. I already have 8GBs of RAM and three 750 GB drives waiting

How obsolete will these systems be in 3 years? Because, let's say for example, you bought a new PowerMac G5 in October, 2005 (per wikipedia, that's when the G5 dual, dual cores were introduced). It's not even three years later and those things are woefully obsolete.

The reason I ask this is, as a typical home-built Windows PC guy, it's usually pretty easy to upgrade bits and pieces of the system over time. I think that's less the case for these MacPros, as we're limited as to what we can put on these machines...

Just a thought...

 

[dgdosen]

So here's a question... As I wait for my MacPro to be delivered tomorrow. I already have 8GBs of RAM and three 750 GB drives waiting

How obsolete will these systems be in 3 years? Because, let's say for example, you bought a new PowerMac G5 in October, 2005 (per wikipedia, that's when the G5 dual, dual cores were introduced). It's not even three years later and those things are woefully obsolete.

The reason I ask this is, as a typical home-built Windows PC guy, it's usually pretty easy to upgrade bits and pieces of the system over time. I think that's less the case for these MacPros, as we're limited as to what we can put on these machines...

Just a thought...

Not to harsh anybody's mellow

 

[330toSRT8]

So here's a question... As I wait for my MacPro to be delivered tomorrow. I already have 8GBs of RAM and three 750 GB drives waiting

How obsolete will these systems be in 3 years? Because, let's say for example, you bought a new PowerMac G5 in October, 2005 (per wikipedia, that's when the G5 dual, dual cores were introduced). It's not even three years later and those things are woefully obsolete.

The reason I ask this is, as a typical home-built Windows PC guy, it's usually pretty easy to upgrade bits and pieces of the system over time. I think that's less the case for these MacPros, as we're limited as to what we can put on these machines...

Just a thought...

It'll be very obsolete. Even on the PC side it's not like you can swap out your hyper-threaded P4 with a Quad-core Xeon. I mean you could swap out the motherboard, but realistically it's not worth the hassle. You might as well buy a new computer because of all the components will be outdated as well. In three years the Mac Pro will have at least 16 cores, FireWire 1600, SATA III, Blu-Ray, and who knows what else. You can add most things via PCI, but the processor will definitely be outdated.

 

[ray_uk]

It's very Upgradeable



The CPU's, HDD's, RAM and Graphic Card/s are all upgradeable, for instance independant testers swapped out the the dual core cpu's of the early 2007 MacPro and added in quad core chip's, it worked, and of course as apple release newer MacPro's with update graphic card's like the 8800GT that is expected for the earlier MacPro's you should then be able to add future revisions.

 

[Shotglass]

I just pictured Steve Jobs standing on the corner with a MBA in his ratty jacket as a "customer" walks up and they quickly exchange the goods. As the customer walks off we hear Jobs say, "He'll be back for more." The wife of the customer finds the MBA and asks him about it. He says, "I was just experimenting with technology, I can quit whenever I want."

You made my afternoon.

 

[dgdosen]

Is it more like a gambling or drug addiction?

I need a new mac book air or I'm gonna die...

or

Just let me get this mac book air, and then I'll be done buying stuff...


I think I'm more the gambler. I say that with a straight face, as I sit here waiting for Fedex to deliver my Mac Pro (out for delivery!) and these hard drives and memory sticks are just sitting here, aching to be used...

 

[jnc]

Except that in this case, the first one's not free

I went to an Apple store opening here in the UK and won an Airport Express

...Then I just had to buy a new Mac to use it with

 

[Soop53]

...and to think it was just me!!! I shared these posts with my wife, thanks for the backing. Whew...

 

[wpattison]

well here's my mac pro spec is whats on my signature.

Y.A.I.W.

(Yet Another Ikea Whore)

That's ok, I am too. And sadly, I know the name of that desk without looking it up. I always cracked up over that name...

 

[mgacam2]

I just pictured Steve Jobs standing on the corner with a MBA in his ratty jacket as a "customer" walks up and they quickly exchange the goods. As the customer walks off we hear Jobs say, "He'll be back for more." The wife of the customer finds the MBA and asks him about it. He says, "I was just experimenting with technology, I can quit whenever I want."

That made me laugh out loud