Difference between 3.0 and 3.2?

[tribe3]

The only thing that has not been said is that you have 1 year of time to get Applecare. You can get your printer now with that money.

Enjoy your new setup !!

 

[ZachPruckowski]

CS3 will run much faster than CS2 on an Intel Mac.

This may have been fixed at some point, but I recall that under the original Rosetta under Tiger, there were strange precision errors in CS2.

With the RAM, make sure you get it in 4 sticks. Since the Mac Pro is quad-channel, you definitely want at least 4 sticks. Ideally, you want exactly 4 sticks (to avoid the higher latency on the back-4 sticks), and ideally they should be the same size (but this is less important).

Another thing to consider is hard drives. While I'm not suggesting moving to SAS, getting a Raptor or even moving to a RAID0 (with Time Machine on a 3rd, larger volume) will also help performance. I have a dual-dual Mac Pro, and the RAID0 I have noticeably helps speed.

 

[Fiveos22]

Can you please tell me — in layman's terms — what this does and how it speeds the machine? My wife's running a G5 that's 4 years old and a little slow, and only has 4 gig.

Surprisingly I found this article[xlr8yourmac] as the second result when I Googled your question.

It appears that the difference between 4 and 8 gigs of RAM is negligable in a G5.