The ACDs are certainly nice but unless your going to be doing professional work on them where color accuracy is an issue I think the vast majority of peoples money is better spent on a Dell display. That's probably not a popular opinion around here.
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How good are the Apple Cinema Display ?
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I agree. The ACDs are beautiful, no doubt, but the vast majority of people just don't need that quality. (This brings me back to my argument that most people don't need anything but an Apple II or a typewriter, they just want more. Stupid people. 😛🙄😀
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Who knows. The client next to me at the Genius desk brought in a Mac Pro with some hard drive issues. He told me he just uses it to surf the net and do e-mail. I have to admit, using a Mac Pro 3.2 is great to surf the net and do e-mail but is it overkill?
I think not. I think it is still far to slow to burn music and I still get the spinning wheel of death in Logic and it still takes too long (longer than a second) to load large files such as Ivory piano samples and Native Instruments applications.
I expected that 8 cores would move along the multitasking much faster.
Maybe we need 80 cores and more than 10 Gigs of memory if we want to have millisecond times for loading large project files and 5 gig sound files?
So when can we get 10 gigs of memory on a single expansion slot?
I agree. The ACDs are beautiful, no doubt, but the vast majority of people just don't need that quality. (This brings me back to my argument that most people don't need anything but an Apple II or a typewriter, they just want more. Stupid people. 😛🙄😀
Who knows. The client next to me at the Genius desk brought in a Mac Pro with some hard drive issues. He told me he just uses it to surf the net and do e-mail. I have to admit, using a Mac Pro 3.2 is great to surf the net and do e-mail but is it overkill?
I think not. I think it is still far to slow to burn music and I still get the spinning wheel of death in Logic and it still takes too long (longer than a second) to load large files such as Ivory piano samples and Native Instruments applications.
I expected that 8 cores would move along the multitasking much faster.
Maybe we need 80 cores and more than 10 Gigs of memory if we want to have millisecond times for loading large project files and 5 gig sound files?
So when can we get 10 gigs of memory on a single expansion slot?
I use my Mac Pro for basically the same things. I bought it for internet, to store up to 4TB of music and videos and to rip DVDs allot faster than any of my other Macs can.
would guess that along with the person you refer to and myself, we are not the only ones to have ever purchased a Mac Pro for such purposes. Mine is a 8 core 2.8. I added WiFi card myself so I could get on the net wirelessly. I also use it to stream my iTunes purchases to my other Macs/Windows machines without having to have the content on the other machines.
As of now, I have just under 800GB of music and videos purchased from iTunes so the Mac Pro was my number one choice for storage solutions. Oh, and it's running a 23" ACD!
