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Great review of the Mac Pro!

Splendid review. My only concern is the listing of a lack of FireWire 3200 as a con.

What in the world is going on?! Does anything have FireWire 3200 yet?! Does anyone make anything that USES it yet?!

Seriously, by the time FireWire 3200 shows up in use, the current Mac Pro will be at least a revision behind. It'll wind up not being compatible for some reason, as well... :D;)
 
Tallest Skil said:
Splendid review. My only concern is the listing of a lack of FireWire 3200 as a con.

What in the world is going on?! Does anything have FireWire 3200 yet?! Does anyone make anything that USES it yet?!
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Well, nobody's going to ship any FW3200 devices until someone ships a FW3200 computer to use them with. It has to start somewhere, and Apple really has to take the lead with FireWire, since nobody else will.
 
hello together,

thank you for the link! fantastic review, answers lots of questions concerning memory and hd upgrades, but...

...the firmware upgrade of the ATI 2600 is responsible for an increase of 22 watts in power consumption :confused: is that really true? I don´t know how to check since I have already made the upgrade.

has anybody an idea what could have happened there :confused:
 
I'm surprised that nobody is upset about the superdrive's performance - and there has been no discussion about the firmware hack...
 
Just ordered a 2.8GHz, 16GB, 300GB 15,000 rpm SAS HD for a member of staff. Those results look great.

Can't wait to try it out (when he's not around - damnit!).
 
Lumpydog said:
What is referred to in the review as "Liggy's Firmware": http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com/page/en/Optiarc-AD-7170A/

It does more than allow the drive to read DVDRAM - it greatly speads up the drives ability to read DVDs....
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i would strongly consider NOT doing this hack unless you also go out and buy the pioneer drive mentioned in the review (115D, i think) to put in the other drive bay...the reason is that the optiarc is the loudest freaking thing this side of a jet engine if you speed it up. I think apple slowed it down on purpose because it was SO loud at full speed. It sounds like a G5 in panic mode when all 10 of the fans rev up to full speed...ok, well maybe not that loud, but it's comparable...all you have to do is put a disc in and let it spin up, and unless you're wearing noise-canceling headphones, any video or music that is supposed to be audible will be overpowered by the drive spin sound.

you'll find yourself burning dvds to your hard drive and ejecting the disc, then playing back from the hard drive and when done deleting the movie file for space, all just to make it quiet enough that you can hear dialog. the pioneer drive is much quieter and plenty fast.

the review mentioned this, but I've experienced it personally, and the issue is understated. just a warning.
 
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