I ordered my Mac Pro today...

[WardC]

Well, it just arrived here, approximately 25 hours and 30 minutes after ordering it. Super fast shipping. I am about to fire it up and mess around with it for a bit here at work before I take it home tonight. I will post some pictures in a bit.

 

[WardC]

Whoa, you are not going to believe this. I got the machine fired up (I am using it right now). And they shipped with 6GB of RAM and an Airport card ALREADY INSTALLED. Dude, I totally lucked out!! I actually have an Airport card already installed in the unit!! Sweetness!! I was planning on getting the upgrade later or using a router, and I have already purchased 16GB of RAM to add to the machine. But still, I majorly lucked out on this one. It was advertised as 3GB of RAM and NO AirPort card. I got 6GB of RAM and and AirPort card.

Damn, I feel lucky. I will report back in a bit....going to test out some apps right now!! I love my new Mac Pro!!

EDIT: I just found out that it also has a 1TB hard drive, not the 640GB that it was advertised as shipping with! No telling what other add-ons I will find on this unit!

EDIT: Also came with 2 SuperDrives!!!!!!!

EDIT: Also came with a Radeon 4870!!!!! WHOA! This is like Christmas for me!! I can't believe this!

 

[donw35]

good deal, you got a great machine there, should give you years of service.

 

[mism]

Nice one, time to update that sig 🙂

 

[VirtualRain]

Yeah, nice rig! Hard to complain about the value you're getting! 🙂

 

[WardC]

Thought I would post some photos of my new Mac Pro here:

The plain white Box it came it:

The label on the box (I got much more than this):

Mac Pro Inside and Open:

The Pre-Installed AirPort card:

 

[MacVidCards]

Lucky Devil.

I bought a new Octo 2.26 last week. Said it had a GT120 and 6 Gigs.

And that is exactly what it came with. Waaaa !!!! It didn't even come with an Airport card in it !!!!

And compared to the Quad 3.0 sitting on my other desk, it feels like a slug.

Already looking on Ebay for some w5580s.

It is nice to use a GTX285 and NOT need to use ATY_Init and an extra Nvidia card.

Wish it had come with some "surprises" like yours.

 

[Icaras]

Congrats man. Looks like a beautiful refurb machine! May you have endless hours of productivity with it.

Well I just bit the bullet too, sort of. Just ordered a refurb 24" LED cinema display, so hopefully it will look just as good and new as your new Mac Pro 😀 Went fast too, as it was unavailable the moment I ordered.

 

[dgookin]

Thought I would post some photos of my new Mac Pro here...

I'm delighted for you. Good decision. Now you're off and running with a new machine while many here, including myself, stubbornly hold out for what may never come. Feel free to laugh and mock at our frustration. You earned it. 😉

 

[Roman23]

I guess you would have lost..

If I were to have put a wager of 100.00 up that the mac pro could come out today.. but i wouldn't ask you for it.

I will not bet against you, because you're probably right. 😛

But during these very frustrating and "imminent" times, the best time I could think of ordering a current Mac Pro would be on a Tuesday.

But the OP can be rest assured though, that if a new MP does actually get released tomorrow or next week, he could simply exchange if it he wanted to.

 

[Roman23]

Your install disks - is it 10.6.4 or 10.6.2?

When I got mine, my install disks say 10.6.2 however I don't think its a big deal as I guess under applecare I can say that I never received them and they would send me the 10.6.4 os install disk.. however, the applications disk is the same as yours.

Whoa, you are not going to believe this. I got the machine fired up (I am using it right now). And they shipped with 6GB of RAM and an Airport card ALREADY INSTALLED. Dude, I totally lucked out!! I actually have an Airport card already installed in the unit!! Sweetness!! I was planning on getting the upgrade later or using a router, and I have already purchased 16GB of RAM to add to the machine. But still, I majorly lucked out on this one. It was advertised as 3GB of RAM and NO AirPort card. I got 6GB of RAM and and AirPort card.

Damn, I feel lucky. I will report back in a bit....going to test out some apps right now!! I love my new Mac Pro!!

EDIT: I just found out that it also has a 1TB hard drive, not the 640GB that it was advertised as shipping with! No telling what other add-ons I will find on this unit!

EDIT: Also came with 2 SuperDrives!!!!!!!

EDIT: Also came with a Radeon 4870!!!!! WHOA! This is like Christmas for me!! I can't believe this!

 

[SamuraiArtGuy]

Congrats on the new iron! Shiny! And Bonus for the goodies!

As for this cash strapped Designer, I'm currently rocking a still hardworkin' Power Mac G5 box. I'll probably take the plunge when I get a file from a client or vendor that Creative Suite 3 can't open, and it's time to upgrade to CS5. Creative Suite Five requites an Intel Mac....

So looking forward to the $600 upgrade that costs $3500!

Banzai!!!! 😱