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POLL: How many new Mac Pros in this forum?
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Order Status: Not yet shipped, but they say it *could* ship as early as today (Jan 11th) and arrive as early as the 15th, so here's hoping 
This is my first Mac, let alone Mac Pro, and I can't wait for it to arrive!
-Bryan
This is my first Mac, let alone Mac Pro, and I can't wait for it to arrive!
-Bryan
Order Status: Not yet shipped, but they say it *could* ship as early as today (Jan 11th) and arrive as early as the 15th, so here's hoping
This is my first Mac, let alone Mac Pro, and I can't wait for it to arrive!
-Bryan
nothing right diving right in, eh?
have fun!
Is it that obvious that I'm sick of running windows?
My current PC will be relieved of its painful duty and become a nice Linux fileserver for my network
I've been waiting to be a switcher since probably July
-Bryan
My current PC will be relieved of its painful duty and become a nice Linux fileserver for my network
I've been waiting to be a switcher since probably July
-Bryan
Got mine and LOVING IT! What took me 20 minutes to render something in Final Cut, now only takes 10 seconds!!!! AMAZING!!!!
Just ordered mine, but not shipping until FEB 14th! Bummer... but I have to get the 8800 for motion/aperture... Although, my 30" ACD is arriving tomorrow... so I can stare at a blank monitor for a month!
I wonder if Apple is over estimating the shipping time and it may ship earlier...? I hope anyway.
I look at it this way, if for some reason Apple announces some other option during MWSF, I can cancel my order and get whatever option may be missing.
I'm excited... and I will be even more excited when FCP can support all 8 cores... and even more excited when the issues with CS3 get worked out.
I wonder if Apple is over estimating the shipping time and it may ship earlier...? I hope anyway.
I look at it this way, if for some reason Apple announces some other option during MWSF, I can cancel my order and get whatever option may be missing.
I'm excited... and I will be even more excited when FCP can support all 8 cores... and even more excited when the issues with CS3 get worked out.
8800GT benchmarks?
It was launched on October 29th.
There are about a million web sites that have it's benchmarks.
What are you going to compare it to?
Got the basic 8 core with ATI card plus Airport/WiFi & a wireless mighty mouse.
1-2 weeks.
I will get the 8800 card in the future if I feel I need it with Final Cut Studio 2, After Effects, Shake, Motion & Photoshop.
1-2 weeks.
I will get the 8800 card in the future if I feel I need it with Final Cut Studio 2, After Effects, Shake, Motion & Photoshop.
Trust me, you won't need it right away. Machine runs awesome with the 2600XT with Final Cut Studio 2. I'm still in shock. haha.
Thats good to hear - I'm new to video software (I'm a musician used to Logic Pro) so I doubt I'll be able to push the video software as I'm still learning it
Do you wish you hadn't waited and had just bought the previous Mac Pro last August? So you could have had nearly the same boost for the past 6 months? or are you happy to have waited?
Damn, darthraige, I was about decided to upgrade to the 3.2 for doing Final Cut work, but now you have me wondering if I really need to.
I am so happy I waited for this new model. I came from a G4 Dual 800 MHz. I also use a G5 Dual 2Ghz at work. This new MacPro blows them both away by miles. haha.
Darth: so FCS2 works nice so far with just the stock 2gb RAM in it? How big of project files are you opening? That's awesome how much faster the render was!
Have you tried using Motion yet with the ATI card?
I also use a Dual G5 at work, and can't wait to see how much faster the Mac Pro is.
Have you tried using Motion yet with the ATI card?
I also use a Dual G5 at work, and can't wait to see how much faster the Mac Pro is.
Nahhhh, stick with the 2.8. You'll love it, trust me. Why pay all that more for .4? I had to restart the computer after installing software and I was like, hmmm, I'll get a drink of water while it's restarting... It finished restarting before I left the room! haha
It works awesome with just the 2 gigs in there. Gonna upgrade to at least 6 in a few months. The project files were pretty big. Lots of sequences in it. A few that were about 1 1/2 hours each. The best is when its un-rendered and you can just skim through it at real time and watch it when its not even rendered yet.
I opened up Motion but haven't done anything yet, but just the way it was working seemed like it was working fast. I'll be testing it this weekend.