Canadians who oredered the Mac Pro with the 8800GT

[mac2maverick]

RAM more for MP than iMac??

Someone please tell me why RAM for the Mac Pro is more than twice as much as the RAM for the iMac. What's everyone's best price from a Canadian company?

 

[Richardismac]

it took about 3-4 weeks for a friend of mines to ship just got it about a week back

 

[lutron3000]

it took about 3-4 weeks for a friend of mines to ship just got it about a week back

I just ordered 4gb from CanadaRam on Monday morning and it shipped today and should be here by thursday, not too shabby. I looked at OWC and by the time you took into account shipping (free at canadaram) and duty I think it comes out pretty close. Plus I try and support canadian companies whenever possible.


As for my mac pro, my original ship date is tomorrow. I'm almost hoping that it doesn't ship so I can legitimately call them up and get some money back and fast shipping. For a poor student this almost seems like a better plan =)

 

[surflordca]

As for my mac pro, my original ship date is tomorrow. I'm almost hoping that it doesn't ship so I can legitimately call them up and get some money back and fast shipping. For a poor student this almost seems like a better plan =)

Mine was to ship tomorrow also. I called them and asked why new orders are shipped before mine. I ordered Jan.9 I should have my computer today as FedX tracking says so

My stat just changed in the Fed Ex site. My computer is in MISSISSAUGA, ON
That is so close I can see it. By the end of the day I won't be daydreaming about it, I will be touching it

 

[mac2maverick]

I just went to the Canadian Apple store and reconfigured a Mac Pro with the 8800 GT and the ship time has been reduced to 3-5 days. Does this mean that they were short on the cards and that things should now pick up? This seems like a positive sign.

 

[LeKiD]

I'm glad to say that mine.... Hasn't shipped yet!!! At least my old G5 supports porn in the waiting.

 

[One Bad Ant]

As of this morning I'm "Prepared for Shipment". Ordered on January 10 with the 500 GB drive. In hind sight I would have left that as the 320 and bought a second drive for a third party.

 

[doleboy]

Someone please tell me why RAM for the Mac Pro is more than twice as much as the RAM for the iMac. What's everyone's best price from a Canadian company?

not sure if anyone saw my post, but total price for four 2gb sticks was ~450, shipped to my door in 3 days. from a US supplier, yes, but still just as fast (and more than likely cheaper) than any canadian retailer.

i ordered mine from transint, it came to ~400 shipped 2-3 day express for 8 gb's (four 2gb sticks). and taxes came to about $50 upon delivery. my ram has been waiting here patiently for my mac pro

http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?category=2646

 

[bigbird]

I got my new MP all set up and, after leaving a G4 PowerMac 733, all I can say is...WOW! I hope you all will be as satisfied as I am.

 

[lutron3000]

finally!

Hey all,

My mac pro just shipped tonight! Finally! Looks like for whatever reason they just decided to wait until the my original ship date to ship it out even though the parts have clearly been available for some time.

Anyway juts got my ram in from Canada ram today to and the MP should be here by monday so it is all coming together

 

[Bastich]

As I'm writing this, I'm on the phone with an Apple's rep and I told him again how disappointing the shipping treatment is. I already had a 2-3 day delivery from my first call and now got 75$ off.

It makes it easier a bit to wait.

*** Just checked my specs and my total before taxes ... looks like I'm saving $245

They probably removed a couple of cores because of your whining.

 

[mac2maverick]

I ordered my MP with 8800GT on the afternoon of February 9 and it's prepared for shipping tonight Feb.13. I was expecting to wait a lot longer. It originally said ships Feb 21-26, so it's likely to get shipped before that time.

This is good news for those who have just ordered theirs and also those who have ordered theirs a while back.

 

[FELLiNi]

Why not get your ram from Memory Express? It's a Canadian company and therefore cheaper and faster to receive.

But, do they even have buffered, ECC Ram for the Mac Pro, Maverick? I searched, but couldn't find any. I ideally want to buy from a Canadian store, but TransIntl Memory has the best price right now.

And I got my order status...my Mac Pro should be here on Monday. Boom.

 

[mac2maverick]

But, do they even have buffered, ECC Ram for the Mac Pro, Maverick? I searched, but couldn't find any. I ideally want to buy from a Canadian store, but TransIntl Memory has the best price right now.

And I got my order status...my Mac Pro should be here on Monday. Boom.

Their Memory Configurator isn't working on their site so I phoned their store in Calgary (that's where I live) and they told me this:

Mushkin DDR2 PC2 5300 2GB $49.95

The sales person told me that they don't have 4GB sticks and can't even special order them. This particular salesperson didn't seem as knowledgeable about Apple stuff as the other sales people I've spoken to at the store. I'm going to phone the other store and ask them the same question and see if I get a different response.

But, do they even have buffered, ECC Ram for the Mac Pro, Maverick? I searched, but couldn't find any. I ideally want to buy from a Canadian store, but TransIntl Memory has the best price right now.

And I got my order status...my Mac Pro should be here on Monday. Boom.

Other store, different sales person:
This is fully buffered or FB dimmed (I don't know the acronym spelling) it has built in memory on it to do memory checking
Kingston KTA-MP-800-K2 - 2G 2- one gigabyte sticks (2GB) = $260
Kingston KTA-MP-800-K2 - 4G 2 - two GB sticks (4GB)= $620

These have to be ordered and take 5 business days. He said no one has yet ordered the 4GB sticks so he can't find a price yet, but they'd be around $1000 - his guess.

 

[surflordca]

Got it

I just received my new Mac Pro today. Fed Ex was to deliver it yesterday but didn't so I went and picked it up myself today from there office. I installed a total of 10 gigs of ram. The 2 that came with it plus 4 x 2gigs from OWC. The Mac see it all. I also installed 2 more 300 gig HD's that I had from my PC. Everything works great the way they should. Now the problems. Every time I load Garage Band it crashes. It also stops working if I try to reboot after installing updates. I have to press the power button to reboot. Don't know why. Also the Mac runs a little slower loading programs than my old PC. I am not running anything intense, just FireFox, Mail, etc... This is also my first Mac so I know there are TONS of stuff that I am missing. First impressions I would give it a 8.5 out of 10.

 

[doleboy]

I just received my new Mac Pro today. Fed Ex was to deliver it yesterday but didn't so I went and picked it up myself today from there office. I installed a total of 10 gigs of ram. The 2 that came with it plus 4 x 2gigs from OWC. The Mac see it all. I also installed 2 more 300 gig HD's that I had from my PC. Everything works great the way they should. Now the problems. Every time I load Garage Band it crashes. It also stops working if I try to reboot after installing updates. I have to press the power button to reboot. Don't know why. Also the Mac runs a little slower loading programs than my old PC. I am not running anything intense, just FireFox, Mail, etc... This is also my first Mac so I know there are TONS of stuff that I am missing. First impressions I would give it a 8.5 out of 10.

first thing you should do is get memtest for OS X from http://www.memtestosx.org/ (it's literally $1.39) and check all your ram modules with it. a bad sector can cause crashing.
hopefully you get your issues straightened away!

 

[mac2maverick]

first thing you should do is get memtest for OS X from http://www.memtestosx.org/ (it's literally $1.39) and check all your ram modules with it. a bad sector can cause crashing.
hopefully you get your issues straightened away!

You may have to reformat your PC drives in a format that is acceptable to the Mac. Although this would be a separate issue from your app problem.

My MP just shipped today - only 5 days after it was ordered. Looks like I'll probably get it before the monitor.

 

[surflordca]

first thing you should do is get memtest for OS X from http://www.memtestosx.org/ (it's literally $1.39) and check all your ram modules with it. a bad sector can cause crashing.
hopefully you get your issues straightened away!

Well I DLed the program and ran it. It took a while but all passed. That is good news. At least that eliminated one of many probable causes. Thanks for your input.

 

[mac2maverick]

I checked some bench tests and the 800MHz Ram is only 4% faster than the 667MHz Ram. If you have older ram don't throw it away!

 

[wpc33]

I checked some bench tests and the 800MHz Ram is only 4% faster than the 667MHz Ram. If you have older ram don't throw it away!

There has been lots of discussion about this fact, but the MP was designed to work with 800. Using any 667 will make all RAM go that speed. Also, matched pairs(size and brand) is required.