OMG... I'm buying a Mac!

I have been a PC junkie for so long and have talked a lot of smack about APPLE and how "non-user friendly" it is. I'm such an idiot!!! I just so happen to be walking along downtown Calgary, Alberta Canada one day and I stumbled upon an Apple Store. Low and behold there was a PC store right next to it. I scoffed at the "Apple Store" and walked towards the PC Store. I found that it had a sign in the window that said "Out of Business". I was oblivious to the irony. Then had no choice but to "check out" the Apple store. Long story short, I came out of that store a changed man. I did not know where to start. Should I skeet shoot my windows running, ctrl-alt-deleting, virus crashing PC from existence or should I just chalk this up as an experience. Well to my detriment, I chalked it up as an experience. That all happened 2 years ago and I have regretted this decision ever since. My business has grown and I have moved to northern BC with my family and have discovered an immense demand for professional Photo/Videography and editing. Now my POS PC will not pump out the power needed to edit, let alone render a simple 20 minute clip. I do everything from professional commercials to weddings and my PC is about to kick the bucket. Actually it kicked the buck along time ago but I performed a few spells and downloaded enough band-aid programs to keep it alive. I need powerful enough computer to not only blow away my old PC but to potentially make it orbit pluto. Here is a list of what I am about to order from Apple.ca. I need someone with enough APPLE experience to say "HELL YA" to my list or a resounding "HELL NO" start over. Here we go...

mac pro
2x 3.0 Gz Dual Core Xeon Processors
4 Gb Ram
1 500GB Harddrive for software - purchased a lacie 2.5 Tb sata 2 raid system for data
ATI Radeon X-1900 512Mb to support the 2 x 23" displays
2 x Superdrives
Bluetooth and Airport extreme option


I am not sure if I will go with the video card they offer on the website. I am going to research it a bit. The high end one they offer is too high end and the one I have listed, I am not sure if it is powerful enough. Comment away!!!

 

You don't know the half of it! You get out from under this fossil of a computer and into a Ferrari..... ohhhhhhhh boy!!!!

Where in PG you from?

I never though of that. In fact I have no idea just what I can do about third party purchasing for this monster. I know PC's hardware almost grows on trees.
Thanks for the input.

I'm looking at a new hardware budget of over 40k. This includes new filming and lighting equipment. 12k just for the computer.

 

You think with all the rendering and rasterizing I need to do the 512Mb ATI card in this beast can handle it. Apple doesn't show the specs I need to see about what they sell on their site. I'm still looking elsewhere for specs.

YOU KNOW IT!!!! MMMMMMMMm write off's!!

 

Thx

Thanks... wish me luck!!

 

I have never heard of the Veyron. I have heard of bugatti but not its new beast.
Now that I have seen it I want one!

You have got to be kidding?!?!?!?!?

2 Quads???

8 cores???

Thats bordering on matching the human thought speed (the think it and it happens theory). AWESOME!!!

 

I have just been reading about the NVIDIA Quattro FX 5500 1Gb vid card, the best bad ass card out there (according to many non related sites). I have found the 5500 for not much more than the 4500 that apple sells. I know this is more than likely overkill in the extreme but I would not have to worry about upgrades for a while eh? The only problem is, is it compatible with Mac OSx??? It only states it is Windows compatible.

Oh my dear god .... those benchmarks... can't be real?!? I don't know what I would do with that much power. I could never use it all! I still want it... but I could never use it!!!

Thanks! I'm excited!

 

I couldn't tell the difference anyway unless I seen them both. It was the closest thing to an apple store I have ever seen.