Hi all,
first of all, merry christmas everyone.
hope everyones festive season is safe.
My bestest little wifey got me a Refurbed Early 2008 Mac Pro for christmas and it arrived yesterday. Its in great condition with no marks what so ever on the outside and pretty much spick and span on the inside. (no doubt apple inc would have cleaned it before posting it out.)
at any rate, specs below:
2 x quad 2.8ghz
12 GB ram
500GB drive
8800GT
airport extreme
Apple Bluetooth
2x dual layer super drives
Now i am just wondering if there are any design faults with this puppy, or what i should keep an eye out for. Its still in Applecare, so thats good.
Ill be using this puppy mostly for my own Studio, with my wacom Cintiq UX and apple 20 inch cinema display.
apps will be Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, and a few animation packages. and ofcourse on the windows7 side, ill be playing a few games like Starcraft2, Steam games like L4D et al, and Diablo3 when released. etc.
In that regard, ill be setting up my Cintiq as my secondary display, not primary.
cant believe my little wifey got this for me as a pressie (as she doesnt know much about computers), but must have heard / or spied me keeping an eye out on all the macpro's on ebay.
I had a 1,1 macpro 2x2.66 about a year ago, but sold it due to not being that nice to use in win7 and it had a few issues with shutting down un-announced. I never used my Cintiq with my mac pro 1,1 as i had a 4890 in there and had sooo many dramas updating OSX.. so in the end just got rid of it and went back to my Quadro powered G5 Quad.
(should change my sig
so at any rate, are there any issues i should look out for?
How long should the 2008 macpro still last me? and how much better are the new Macpro's... Not that i can afford one of those puppies....
anyways, merry christmas to one and all.
(shouldave seen me unwrappin my
pressie
first of all, merry christmas everyone.
hope everyones festive season is safe.My bestest little wifey got me a Refurbed Early 2008 Mac Pro for christmas and it arrived yesterday. Its in great condition with no marks what so ever on the outside and pretty much spick and span on the inside. (no doubt apple inc would have cleaned it before posting it out.)
at any rate, specs below:
2 x quad 2.8ghz
12 GB ram
500GB drive
8800GT
airport extreme
Apple Bluetooth
2x dual layer super drives
Now i am just wondering if there are any design faults with this puppy, or what i should keep an eye out for. Its still in Applecare, so thats good.
Ill be using this puppy mostly for my own Studio, with my wacom Cintiq UX and apple 20 inch cinema display.
apps will be Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, and a few animation packages. and ofcourse on the windows7 side, ill be playing a few games like Starcraft2, Steam games like L4D et al, and Diablo3 when released. etc.
In that regard, ill be setting up my Cintiq as my secondary display, not primary.
cant believe my little wifey got this for me as a pressie (as she doesnt know much about computers), but must have heard / or spied me keeping an eye out on all the macpro's on ebay.
I had a 1,1 macpro 2x2.66 about a year ago, but sold it due to not being that nice to use in win7 and it had a few issues with shutting down un-announced. I never used my Cintiq with my mac pro 1,1 as i had a 4890 in there and had sooo many dramas updating OSX.. so in the end just got rid of it and went back to my Quadro powered G5 Quad.
(should change my sig
so at any rate, are there any issues i should look out for?
How long should the 2008 macpro still last me? and how much better are the new Macpro's... Not that i can afford one of those puppies....
anyways, merry christmas to one and all.
(shouldave seen me unwrappin my
pressie 
