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my huge Mac Pro just arrived!
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You mean like this? My 12 cores in chaos:
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Surely someone would be willing to generously donate one of those beautiful suckers to me personally?
(/wishful thinking
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Surely someone would be willing to generously donate one of those beautiful suckers to me personally?
(/wishful thinking
He'd have to dig it out from that refuse heap first.
To the original poster: I...uh...eigth?... the motion for pictures! Pics or it didn't happen!
OK, I see multiple requests for pictures! I will try to bring my camera to work this week, to satisfy your desire.
My desk is not-quite-as-messy as Multimedia's! So maybe it is safe for me to clean a little bit and take a good picture.
My desk is not-quite-as-messy as Multimedia's!
So maybe it is safe for me to clean a little bit and take a good picture.
They are comparably-priced to their competitors (Crucial, etc.). They are excellent and quick about standing behind their products. I have dealt with them for nearly a decade, and they have never let me down.
As you can see:
http://www.ramjet.com/macpro.asp
they have very nice heat-sinks too. I wanted to be confident that the heat sinks were great in this particular purchase.
Tell Us About The "WOW" Experience
Thanks for the insight about Ramjet, I'll be placing an order on Monday.
After you got it unboxed, everything hooked up, and had fired it up, can you tell us about your first "WOW" experience that is in relation to what you do with computers.
Thanks for the insight about Ramjet, I'll be placing an order on Monday.
After you got it unboxed, everything hooked up, and had fired it up, can you tell us about your first "WOW" experience that is in relation to what you do with computers.
I fired it up and tried some Maple (math software) that would just take forever to run on my iBook (just 1.42 GHz). My Maple took care of things so quickly on my Mac Pro--of course, I shouldn't be surprised, but I was!
That remains the best "practical" advantage of the machine so far... it is so fast!
On another note, it is a bit overwhelming to get familiar with taking advantage of three monitors at a time. I'm quite familiar with using two monitors at once, but three monitors is something I've only done a little bit. So I am getting used to it a little bit at a time.
Pictures of new Mac Pro
OK, I spent several hours cleaning, and you can see my desk now. The Mac Pro is (obviously) sitting under the desk, and the three monitors span one desk and stretch onto a second one. I have an iSight, Harman Kardon SoundSticks II, a Kensington mouse, etc., etc. I'm just using my regular Apple keyboard today, because my Matias keyboard hasn't arrived yet (ugh!).
I also have a keyboard tray that I haven't installed under the desk yet.
OK, I spent several hours cleaning, and you can see my desk now. The Mac Pro is (obviously) sitting under the desk, and the three monitors span one desk and stretch onto a second one. I have an iSight, Harman Kardon SoundSticks II, a Kensington mouse, etc., etc. I'm just using my regular Apple keyboard today, because my Matias keyboard hasn't arrived yet (ugh!).
I also have a keyboard tray that I haven't installed under the desk yet.
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Heh, for some reason that wasn't quite the office/study I'd imagined environmentalist Gore having!
I'm still wondering how much you'll actually use those 16GB, you'd want to be running a LOT of small processes for to use anything like that. (But then, given the cost of the overall package, why not?)
I'm still wondering how much you'll actually use those 16GB, you'd want to be running a LOT of small processes for to use anything like that. (But then, given the cost of the overall package, why not?)
Heh, for some reason that wasn't quite the office/study I'd imagined environmentalist Gore having!
Quite a lot of dead trees on his desk you mean
Hey, that's Al Gore's setup (after cleaning up the desk). Wait, are you Al Gore?
Great setup by the way
I have seen the same picture of Al Gore in the past.... too funny!
No, I'm not Al Gore.... I'm just a university professor.
(My bookshelves are filled to the same extent as Al's.... absolutely packed!)
Sweet! And a Purdue chair! Go Boilers!!! Are you at Purdue by chance? That desk looks suspiciously like the ones we were issued when I worked there for a short while during college.
EDIT: Never mind, I believe I found the answer from the university directory
You mean like this? My 12 cores in chaos:
*flinch*
I don't think I can look at that... my OCD is mild, until it meets that mess. I just want to reach out, unplug everything, and start over. Get some cable ties.
He's using Purdue University money I bet
Trust me, it's all funny-money at those state schools...if you don't use it when you don't need it, you don't get that amount when you do need it.
He's using Purdue University money I bet
Plus, to any big University a system like the OP's could seem very reasonably priced. When you think about it, in the not too distant past Universities had to foot the bill for massive Cray supercomputers less powerful than the Mac Pro. Costing hundreds of thousands to a few million dollars, depending on the needs and resources of the institution. Now only a few departments have needs for modern high end supercomputers. While many more departments can get away with using high end workstations like the Mac Pro.
That Mac Pro setup is quite awesome though. I can't wait until the macbooks, iMacs and Mini are 8 core so I can afford one. I imagine by then the Mac Pro will be 32 core
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For anyone wondering he teaches accounting and 16gb of ram runs several xcel spreadsheets at the same time. Also- he can read emails and possibly play some iTunes if feeling adventurous. The other displays are used for the WORLD'S LARGEST DOCK
EDIT: You know, on the serious side, I hope the 16 gb was really necessary as well as the apple 30'' displays (being that there are comporable models from dell and others WAY cheaper). Many of us have student loans or will have student loans due to the INSANE costs of higher education, so I like to think that my tuition and namely the money that paid for all that is money well spent. That's why everyone in here is asking what you do. Sorry to give you the lecture but a) my student loans gives me license and b) you probably didn't pay out of pocket and c) you posted this publically and d) I am really jealous of item b). Hope you spent your students' money well, and I'm sorry you had to settle for 16gb of RAM as opposed to 32, I know it's tough!
EDIT: You know, on the serious side, I hope the 16 gb was really necessary as well as the apple 30'' displays (being that there are comporable models from dell and others WAY cheaper). Many of us have student loans or will have student loans due to the INSANE costs of higher education, so I like to think that my tuition and namely the money that paid for all that is money well spent. That's why everyone in here is asking what you do. Sorry to give you the lecture but a) my student loans gives me license and b) you probably didn't pay out of pocket and c) you posted this publically and d) I am really jealous of item b). Hope you spent your students' money well, and I'm sorry you had to settle for 16gb of RAM as opposed to 32, I know it's tough!
For anyone wondering he teaches accounting and 16gb of ram runs several xcel spreadsheets at the same time. Also- he can read emails and possibly play some iTunes if feeling adventurous. The other displays are used for the WORLD'S LARGEST DOCK
I realize you're joking but, I have to point out that the Dock can only be on ONE display at a time, so his Dock could not be any larger than that of someone with only 1 30" display.
For anyone wondering he teaches accounting and 16gb of ram runs several xcel spreadsheets at the same time. Also- he can read emails and possibly play some iTunes if feeling adventurous. The other displays are used for the WORLD'S LARGEST DOCK
ha ha, I enjoyed some of the humorous posts above.
Yes, I'm on the faculty at Purdue, and I do a lot of algorithm analysis. Our department has several servers of similar size for folks like me to use. Contrary to your guesses, we don't just run Excel spreadsheets and play iTunes (in fact, I don't even have Excel on my Mac Pro... although my SoundSticks II do sound nice with iTunes).
The comment about the Cray machines is particularly insightful. In fact, I learned to program on a VAX machine--VAX machine language was the first language that I learned. So, even though I'm young, I've been around long enough to understand that we haven't always been so fortunate. Our machines now are truly huge and fast--astronomically so, in fact....
I was simply unable to run my Maple computations and many threaded C++ tasks (think: days and weeks of computing here) anymore on my iBook G4 or my G5 Powermac. I needed something large and fast, which would last for several years, so the Mac Pro I bought was the solution. Of course it uses startup funds, but I'm doing my best to take advantage of this nice machine. It has definitely already helped my ability to compute.
Not if you mirror the displays
BTW; I love to have my nonsensical theories put to the test and debunked.
BTW; I love to have my nonsensical theories put to the test and debunked.
Not if you mirror the displays
BTW; I love to have my nonsensical theories put to the test and debunked.
Even if you mirror the displays... you still only have 1 Dock resulting in 1 size only. The 1 Dock would just be on both displays and showing the same exact icons.