Buying my first Mac pro need help!!!!! Spending $4000

[monokakata]

Tarzanman, he's asking about a Mac Pro, not a Macbook Pro.

Big difference.

 

[kevinkt]

$4000 on a laptop? REALLY?

I don't care what brand it is.... $4000 on a laptop is ridiculous in this day and age. Heck, it was ridiculous back in the 90's!

What exactly are you going to be doing on it that you need to spend that much?

-EDIT-
I'd dump that money into a nice desktop and a halfway decent laptop. You'll never reach the full power of a desktop in a mobile platform... especially for graphic and cpu intensive applications like film editing/encoding

It's for a Macpro not a Macbook pro.

 

[khollister]

OK I think this is what im going to get.

hex core
with 32gb ram
3.33ghz

use up 2 of the HHD bays in raid0 for Eastwest libraries and have that backed up in an external HHD.

The stock apple HHD will be for audio/midi data - backed up on another external HDD


last HDD bay will be for OS and applications


I hope all this is up to par. thanks guys for helping me BTW!! I am very grateful =)

No problem - sounds like you should have a pretty optimal solution for what you are doing.

 

[snberk103]

kevinkt: Pull the cord, order your system, and don't rethink anything... there is no such thing as a "perfect" system. All systems are a balancing act where you get something you need at the expense of something you might like. And all the decisions are made before you really know what you are going to be doing with it and without knowing what Apple is going to announce next month, next quarter, next year.

So ... no regrets. Don't check back here once you've ordered, and keep in mind that if you wait to see what comes next, or to see what people recommend next, you will never get a new computer. Cheers and Good Luck.

 

[kevinkt]

kevinkt: Pull the cord, order your system, and don't rethink anything... there is no such thing as a "perfect" system. All systems are a balancing act where you get something you need at the expense of something you might like. And all the decisions are made before you really know what you are going to be doing with it and without knowing what Apple is going to announce next month, next quarter, next year.

So ... no regrets. Don't check back here once you've ordered, and keep in mind that if you wait to see what comes next, or to see what people recommend next, you will never get a new computer. Cheers and Good Luck.

thanks yeah i need to buy this beast already lol