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Current mac pro refurb price

tomscott1988 said:
This shows the installation, not the best pics. But as you can see form the pics the card is very small, it is also blue and has a logo on the top left better to get an apple one.

http://meanderingpassage.com/2007/0...-an-airport-extreme-card-in-an-intel-mac-pro/
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Sorry to ask tom, just noticed the link you gave me was for fitting an airport extreme card, so is that the one i need? like this?

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=35501&tid=frooct

I know you say they are smaller but I'm just confused as to why i can't buy an airport extreme card in the link above
 
A Strange thing happened this morning, Somehow I have seemed to change my mind over to buying an i7 refurb imac rather than a refurb mac pro 2009.

I sat down and really thought what i would upgrade with a mac pro and I'm struggling.

Most people on here say the i7 imac will outperform the base 2009 quad mac pro. I can get the same amount of ram and it works out cheaper to upgrade that.

I loved the idea of having a dual monitor (have access to two 17" ones') set up but with the 27" i played around with today in a shop i can easily having things on either side of the screen and it still be big enough to see what's going on.

My main use for this purchase is logic 9 so i can get hyperthreading out of the imac like the mac pro, I don't need a mega expensive graphics card although i may tinker with Final Cut Pro.

I only have two concerns, daisy chaining my apogee duet with a firewire drive (just looking at a lacie 1tb one for £95 on play.com)
And if the screen should go kaput of course would leave me in the S**T.

I'm just worried that I'm going to have to fork out £1700 for a base 2009 model mac pro and I've not even put a wireless card in there or upgraded my ram where as i can have an 8gb Imac for £1500 by putting in some crucial ram.

I even have the latest wireless keyboard and mouse which i could sell as i would not need two of each.

Someone try and steer me back to the mac pro if you can as I'm struggling to warrant one this morning.
Love the idea of one as i know it's a workhorse but £300-£400 more is hard to justify when it seems the 2008 mac pro's are being fazed out with certain things like graphics cards (supposedly) not being compatible.

Edit* I don't really have the money to put in an ssd just in case people mentioned that as a positive for the mac pro.
 
kaufman said:
And if the screen should go kaput of course would leave me in the S**T.

I'm just worried that I'm going to have to fork out £1700 for a base 2009 model mac pro and I've not even put a wireless card in there or upgraded my ram where as i can have an 8gb Imac for £1500 by putting in some crucial ram.

I even have the latest wireless keyboard and mouse which i could sell as i would not need two of each.

Someone try and steer me back to the mac pro if you can as I'm struggling to warrant one this morning.
Love the idea of one as i know it's a workhorse but £300-£400 more is hard to justify when it seems the 2008 mac pro's are being fazed out with certain things like graphics cards (supposedly) not being compatible.
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That is one of the biggest reasons I stick w/ the MP. If the iMac was more user accessible I'd be more comfortable w/ it. But the idea of having to take it in for repair b/c of a bad monitor or HD drives me nuts.

That said, I was looking at the '09 refurbs this AM, but it doesn't seem the price is quite "there" yet, considering the lesser video card, no built-in WiFi, and the price differential b/t the slower procs and the new faster ones. When I priced it all out the refurbs were essentially the same price at the Edu/Govt discounted '10 models, and also what Amazon's (US store) price will probably be once they stock them.

I think we'll have to wait until the '10s are in the wild before we start seeing some compelling refurb prices.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
That is one of the biggest reasons I stick w/ the MP. If the iMac was more user accessible I'd be more comfortable w/ it. But the idea of having to take it in for repair b/c of a bad monitor or HD drives me nuts.
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This is exactly why I won't go back. I had overheating issues in the previous model iMac. The damn thing died in the middle of one of the busiest work weeks of my life.

I had no choice but to go out and buy a new Mac just to finish the work that needed to be done ASAP.
 
kaufman said:
A Strange thing happened this morning, Somehow I have seemed to change my mind over to buying an i7 refurb imac rather than a refurb mac pro 2009.

I sat down and really thought what i would upgrade with a mac pro and I'm struggling.

Most people on here say the i7 imac will outperform the base 2009 quad mac pro. I can get the same amount of ram and it works out cheaper to upgrade that.

I loved the idea of having a dual monitor (have access to two 17" ones') set up but with the 27" i played around with today in a shop i can easily having things on either side of the screen and it still be big enough to see what's going on.

My main use for this purchase is logic 9 so i can get hyperthreading out of the imac like the mac pro, I don't need a mega expensive graphics card although i may tinker with Final Cut Pro.

I only have two concerns, daisy chaining my apogee duet with a firewire drive (just looking at a lacie 1tb one for £95 on play.com)
And if the screen should go kaput of course would leave me in the S**T.

I'm just worried that I'm going to have to fork out £1700 for a base 2009 model mac pro and I've not even put a wireless card in there or upgraded my ram where as i can have an 8gb Imac for £1500 by putting in some crucial ram.

I even have the latest wireless keyboard and mouse which i could sell as i would not need two of each.

Someone try and steer me back to the mac pro if you can as I'm struggling to warrant one this morning.
Love the idea of one as i know it's a workhorse but £300-£400 more is hard to justify when it seems the 2008 mac pro's are being fazed out with certain things like graphics cards (supposedly) not being compatible.

Edit* I don't really have the money to put in an ssd just in case people mentioned that as a positive for the mac pro.
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OWC will add an eSATA port to the new 27" iMac for $169 (click here to see), which gets around the issue of the slow interface. What concerns me more about the iMac is as you said, that screen. It's debatable how likely you are to get a screwed up, yellow tinted or grey splotched monitor, to be sure. However, as a video editor, I find it extremely frustrating to work on a single screen.

I second the motion to wait a bit longer for a refurbished '09.
 
I want to be convinced and can see the benefits (based in uk though so could not take up the offer from owc)

There is only one 2.93 quad core showing in the uk refurb store and it's basically the same price as the 2010 base model which is £2000.

I'm just hoping the price of the basic model mac pro 2009 is around £1500 but I have my doubts
 
I have the patience of a child and just wish i could be given some sort of rough figure the basic quad core in the refurb uk store will be but the store i called up today had no idea.

I know I have to wait until the new models are being shipped for a few weeks but god it's frustrating.

I'm beginning to understand why people just end up ordering something they don't exactly want now.
 
kaufman said:
I know I have to wait until the new models are being shipped for a few weeks but god it's frustrating.
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Yes, but not as frustrating as seeing the $2999 computer you bought in a hurry drop to $2499 days after you receive it. That is a wound that never heals. Waiting for a price drop is a PITA but this time next month you won't even remember the waiting pain.
 
hmmm, , as the first reply said the pro will last longer as you can upgrade it.
But, why bother?

Macs hold their price so awesomely well that I plan to keep all my new macs (MBP, iMac, and mini) which I have all bought since April for just one year.
Then I shall weigh them all in and buy new ones. Such a strategy was out of the question during all my IBM compatible owning years as second hand windows PC are worth next to nothing but I have seen year old macs sell for over 70 percent of their new value. And I never have to buy apple care as I shall sell the macs as their guarantees run out. That will make the money lost on my macs even less.

Just a thought.
 
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