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Do you plan to buy a new Mac Pro on January 15th?

  • Of course! Finally the wait is over!!!

    Votes: 102 61.1%
  • Nope. Add me to the "Official Waiting for Nehalem" thread.

    Votes: 15 9.0%
  • Quite happy with my current Mac Pro. No upgrade planned.

    Votes: 26 15.6%
  • Happy with my dual-core Mac. No Mac Pro for me!

    Votes: 24 14.4%

  • Total voters
    167
Deciding between mac pro or macbook pro for uni, would love the speed of the mac pro, but theres always the portability of the macbook pro
 
Deciding between mac pro or macbook pro for uni, would love the speed of the mac pro, but theres always the portability of the macbook pro

Same here. I have a MacBook at the mo; underwhelmed by the performance and not finding myself moving it around too much, so not sure whether to trade up for a MP or MBP... ideally both :D

I think I'll get the MBP first and "see how it goes", might find that I'm happy for a while without a Mac Pro.
 
Sorry, what do you mean by this?

Well, the jump from MacBook to MacBook Pro might turn out to be enough for me to hold out until the next revision of Mac Pro (Nehalem?) All I know is right now I need something better than this MB, but portability is also something of a factor.
 
I want a monolithic chip and not something stitched together for now.

I am guessing your favorite card right now is the HD3870. Right?

They just came out with a 8800 GT 1GB card.
I think we will see a 8800 GTS 1GB G92 card in the not too distant future.
 
It'll be cool to have top to bottom workstations cards AND consumer cards, so something like:

Quadro 1700, 4500, 5500
GeForce 8600gt, 8800gtx, 9800gtx (?)
 
I am buying a MacPro literally as soon as they are updated and the store comes back online.

I need one yesterday.

I'm getting two new ACD's too. Hopefully the 23's will be refreshed into 24's.
 
I am guessing your favorite card right now is the HD3870. Right?

They just came out with a 8800 GT 1GB card.
I think we will see a 8800 GTS 1GB G92 card in the not too distant future.

Ideally I would like the performance of a Geforce 8800 Ultra with the power requirements of the Radeon HD 3870 heh. But this is now 2008 so I would be quite happy with something that performed hills and mountains above the Geforce 8800 Ultra while still being a monolithic chip. Slapping two cores on one PCB is a failure for innovation (think 3Dfx...)

As far as I can tell the only game that benefits from 1GB of memory is, so far, only Crysis and that game or gaming in general is very far down my list of things to use the new Mac Pro for ;)

I see both the Geforce 8800GT and the Radeon HD 3870 as being the best bang for the buck. The best card is still the Geforce 8800 Ultra, no discussion there.
 
I am buying a MacPro literally as soon as they are updated and the store comes back online.

I need one yesterday.

I'm getting two new ACD's too. Hopefully the 23's will be refreshed into 24's.

Why would you want the same resolution stretched into larger individual pixels?
 
Why would you want the same resolution stretched into larger individual pixels?

I don't, I want more resolution. I'm dealing with pretty large photos from my 5D's, and I'd like to be able to see more image in Photoshop.
 
Why would you want the same resolution stretched into larger individual pixels?

The change in dot pitch would be very insignificant when moving from a 23" to a 24". Furthermore, 23" panels are dead. They would need to move to a 24" to keep the latest tech. As in the H-IPS panel in the 24" iMac.

And Mike, I hope it gets updated as well. I just gave up my two 24"s to move to a 30" when the Mac Pro gets updated. I didn't enjoy working with two displays much.
 
Pretty quiet on the rumor front regarding the Mac Pro. I'm starting to think it's not going to happen at MWSF. Which really, really p$*ses me off.
 
I've been wanting a Mac Pro since July...found out the update "could be at MWSF" sometime in October...and not to mention this will be my first Mac.

The only way I'm waiting longer than the 15th is if they tell us "buy it today, it ships in February."

If they really aren't going to ship a new Mac Pro until WWDC, then sorry, I'm not waiting that long, I'll buy the current model (possibly even a refurb to save some cash.)

11 more days... :eek:

-Bryan
 
me too !

been lurking around this forum for 4~5 months now, need a mac pro for heavy rendering (maxwell render) and design work . . . money in the bank waiting . . . . . really can't wait.

got my shopping list all sorted ( raptor 150Gb 10k rpm boot drive etc . . )

diddy
:)
 
been lurking around this forum for 4~5 months now, need a mac pro for heavy rendering (maxwell render) and design work . . . money in the bank waiting . . . . . really can't wait.

got my shopping list all sorted ( raptor 150Gb 10k rpm boot drive etc . . )

diddy
:)

You might want to consider a Seagate 1TB for a boot drive. Apparently they're just as fast as the Raptors, and they've got another 850GB too!

You could partition 150 GB for boot and use the 850GB inactive part for backup or file storage. That's what they're recommending over at Mac Gurus (smart guys, them).
 
been lurking around this forum for 4~5 months now, need a mac pro for heavy rendering (maxwell render) and design work . . . money in the bank waiting . . . . . really can't wait.

got my shopping list all sorted ( raptor 150Gb 10k rpm boot drive etc . . )

diddy
:)

Or even two other drives and RAID-0 with a backup solution.

Much faster.
 
mmmmm interesting idea

thanks BDB

my plan really was to do this;

150Gb Raptor - OS + Apps

2 x WD Caviar 500Gb - RAID 1 for data. plus external 500Gb backup.

gonna be using CS3 + maxwell, plus Solidworks on win XP partition. Probably start with 4Gb RAM and then add another 4Gb later when I can afford it.

I'll have a look at mac gurus and swot up on configs.

thanks for the info, really hope we get new MP's at mwsf. :rolleyes:

diddy :)
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:apple: G4 iMac 800 Mhz
:apple: 15" MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz
DELL Precision 310 P4 (cant wait to bin it !!)
 
My plan is this:

Drive 1 (Seagate 1TB):
- Partition A (150 GB): boot drive with OS X & apps
- Partition B (800 GB): Time Machine backup of RAID

Drives 2 & 3 (2x 750 GB SE2 in RAID 0)
- user directory and image files

Drive 4 (Seagate 1TB):
- Partition A (100 GB): Photoshop scratch
- Partition B (bootable clone of Drive 1, A)
 
Or even two other drives and RAID-0 with a backup solution.

Much faster.

I would stay away from RAID 0 - RAID 1 is much safer !!

(see my reply to this guys post - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/408504/)

RAID 5 is even better but I can't afford that or indeed have the space in the MP. Might look at buying an external RAID setup instead ? ? Any reccomendations anyone - need 500Gb- 1TB RAID 1 or maybe 5??

d :)
 
Forgot to say . .

My plan is this:

Drive 1 (Seagate 1TB):
- Partition A (150 GB): boot drive with OS X & apps
- Partition B (800 GB): Time Machine backup of RAID

Drives 2 & 3 (2x 750 GB SE2 in RAID 0)
- user directory and image files

Drive 4 (Seagate 1TB):
- Partition A (100 GB): Photoshop scratch
- Partition B (bootable clone of Drive 1, A)

Kewl setup.

forgot to say that I'd probably order the MP with the stock 250Gb and then use that as the Win XP disc (disc 4). buy everything else from ebuyers, scan or other cheap suppliers in the uk. nothing set in stone as yet, we'll see in 11 days time (or thereabouts) maybe we'll get SAS drives? or eSATA as an external option?? which could change matters considerably.

definately need the 8-core. maxwell eats cpus like you wouldnt believe.

d
 
also . . .

I would consider changing your drives 2 + 3 to RAID 1 (mirrored), maybe going to larger ones to result in the same storage space. if one of those striped drives fails then that's your user directory hosed. mirrored is much safer.

just my 2p worth

d
;)
 
I would consider changing your drives 2 + 3 to RAID 1 (mirrored), maybe going to larger ones to result in the same storage space. if one of those striped drives fails then that's your user directory hosed. mirrored is much safer.

just my 2p worth

d
;)

If you look at the configuration the RAID is being backed up every hour by Time Machine on a separate drive. I will also be backing the RAID up to an external FW drive nightly. That's plenty safe for me.

Also, over at Mac Gurus they consistently say that with today's desktop drives RAID 0 is not nearly as "unsafe" as people are always claiming it is. Just my 2 cents too!
 
There won't be a Mac Pro released on the 15th. But if there is, leave your address and I will come over and give you and your wife a shoe shine.
 
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