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I have finally made the switch!

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ronni3

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Today, after the keynote, I placed an order for a Mac Pro. The specs are as follows:

2.66GHz Quad
2GB Ram
X1900 XT
Apple Extreme & BT
250GB HDD

Now all I have to do is sit back and wait for it to come. Geez, this is the hardest part!!! 😀
 
ronni3 said:
Today, after the keynote, I placed an order for a Mac Pro. The specs are as follows:

2.66GHz Quad
2GB Ram
X1900 XT
Apple Extreme & BT
250GB HDD

Now all I have to do is sit back and wait for it to come. Geez, this is the hardest part!!! 😀
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Just about to do the same, though I'm probably going to buy a stock config from amazon. This'll be pretty cool since I've got all these HD's sitting around from my just sold PowerMac, I'm going to have 1TB 😱 of storage. That's obscene, really. 3 years ago I only had a 10GB HD!

Shame that OWC ram thing didn't work out.

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I got a great deal too. I joined the Student ADC program and damn isn't it great to get a 20% discount on that Mac Pro. Hell no would I have ever been able to afford the regular price of this setup.
 
Tomorrow is the big day! It should arrive sometime in the afternoon. Man, I just can't wait. 😀
 
Tangerine said:
Mine is the same spec but except with only 1GB of RAM. Does having 2GB of RAM make that much of a big different?
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Mine has had 1 gb of RAM, and I really want to upgrade now....I run out of RAM all the time. But I can't afford to buy a second gig right now so I will have to wait. I run out of ram all the time...I am not even a "pro" user......😀
 
trainguy77 said:
Mine has had 1 gb of RAM, and I really want to upgrade now....I run out of RAM all the time. But I can't afford to buy a second gig right now so I will have to wait. I run out of ram all the time...I am not even a "pro" user......😀
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Me too. I'm really hope Apple Ram price would drop. It is ways too expensive right now. There is 3rd aftermarket one, but I'm still skeptical. Especially when it comes to Ram. I hope with all the competition aftermarket Ram out there, maybe Apple will drop the price. Doesn't look like it though 🙁 .
 
Tangerine said:
Me too. I'm really hope Apple Ram price would drop. It is ways too expensive right now. There is 3rd aftermarket one, but I'm still skeptical. Especially when it comes to Ram. I hope with all the competition aftermarket Ram out there, maybe Apple will drop the price. Doesn't look like it though 🙁 .
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I don't mind buying third party both those prices are still kinda expensive.
 
Well I got it today, but unfortunately I was called into work and I have classes tonight, so I don't expect to be able to play with this thing until sometime in the late evening. 🙁 But either way, I am happy that it has made it home.

Are there any tests I should perform?
 
ronni3 said:
Well I got it today, but unfortunately I was called into work and I have classes tonight, so I don't expect to be able to play with this thing until sometime in the late evening. 🙁 But either way, I am happy that it has made it home.

Are there any tests I should perform?
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Yes, it come with Mac OS X Install disk. You can use it to startup to perform hardware test. Also, try Techtool Pro if you have it to run a test.
 
trainguy77 said:
Mine has had 1 gb of RAM, and I really want to upgrade now....I run out of RAM all the time. But I can't afford to buy a second gig right now so I will have to wait. I run out of ram all the time...I am not even a "pro" user......😀
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Are you running Safari?

Safari has massive memory leak problems and I find you have to quit and restart it every few hours otherwise your machine grinds to a hault.
 
mark88 said:
Are you running Safari?

Safari has massive memory leak problems and I find you have to quit and restart it every few hours otherwise your machine grinds to a hault.
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Yes I do use Safari. I even quit it once in awhile to try help with that problem. But I still run out of RAM.
 
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