Its here! Mac Pro in my studio now - now with a photo

[Josh-H]

Arrived two days ago - all up and running and VERY VERY happy with its performance.

2 x 2.8Ghz 8 Cores with 10GB ram and 3 x 500 Gig SATA drives in RAID5 with apple RAID card and 1 x 300GIG SAS 15,000rpm velociraptor drive for CS3 scratch disk. Went with the NVIDIA 512mb video card as it was bugger all $ to upgrade it from the stock card and went with the apple extreme wireless option as well.

Running in my studio as my main photo editing machine for Lightroom and CS3 with a NEC 2690 Wuxi SpectraView II monitor.

Also connected a LACIE 2 big triple 2 x 1TB NAS in RAID 1 hooked up via Firewire 800 as an external back up for the Mac Pro's RAID 5 array.

Performance is extreme - fastest machine I have ever used.

www.kidsupclose.com.au

 

[Chaos123x]

Pics or it didn't happen

 

[Josh-H]

Pics or it didn't happen

No worries - will take some pics tonight when I get back to the studio.

 

[pooryou]

Yes but is it Snappier™?

 

[umbilical]

price? and I dont know whats the apple RAID card, works for?

 

[Josh-H]

Pic

Here is a quick and dirty pic from my iphone.

Thats my fully loaded macbook pro on the left, the NEC SpectraView II monitor in the middle, the mac pro under the desk, the Lacie 2 big triple NAS on the desk with the throbbing blue big button and the big beast on the right is my main work horse printer the Canon IPF5100 Image Prograph printer.

 

[Josh-H]

price? and I dont know whats the apple RAID card, works for?

I paid $6,500 Australian for the Mac pro not including any of the other stuff like the Lacie NAS or NEC monitor, printer etc.

 

[costabunny]

and I dont know whats the apple RAID card, works for?

Um Google??

http://www.apple.com/macpro/technology/storage.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID



And to the TS - Nice setup there