Sell the Mac Pro for 17MBP??

[Masher500]

Well my job is economy based right now, and well sucking... So to come up with some extra cash i was thinking of selling my Mac Pro system for the new 17 MBP with the 24 inch display.

Currently i have a quad 2.8 with 1.82TB of storage and 4gb of ram. In my sale i was going to include both my 24 inch HP displays in the deal.

Now my question is, and maybe obvious, but i wanted peoples input before i do it is this; How much am i going to loose in FCP performance? I do mostly editing in FCP and motion. I also encode a lot of videos, so i know processing power will go down the drain. But how much? Am i going to be hating life? I hope someone that has a newer, not the newest MBP, and a Mac Pro can shed some light for me. Something tells me i know the answer already, but i just wanted to hear it from someone with experience with both machines. thanks for everyone's help.

 

[bozz2006]

I think the 17" MBP and 24" Apple display are going to cost more than what you'll get for you mac pro.

 

[jjahshik32]

Hmm... yea the 24" LED ACD + 17" MBP will cost more than your Mac Pro, if not equalling it out in cost if your Mac Pro is sooped up!

 

[bozz2006]

he says he has the single quad core cpu model... not much aftermarket demand for that set-up. i think you're better off sticking with what you've got.

 

[Masher500]

sorry lemme clear it up, i have the dual 2.8 quad. With my monitors you guys dont think i can get close to 4500 for it? with my upgrades?? Just curious, havent watched the market price too much.

 

[bozz2006]

sorry lemme clear it up, i have the dual 2.8 quad. With my monitors you guys dont think i can get close to 4500 for it? with my upgrades?? Just curious, havent watched the market price too much.

depends on the monitors, but my answer is "no". not even close. If you were to sell, you'd be much better off selling each item separately.

 

[macsForLife]

I would think you should be able to get ~4 grand with both the monitors, but again, you'll spend more on the new setup, and it will be slower. Just keep what you have.

 

[zdobson]

I vote nay. Too many reasons to list...

 

[scottydawg]

I would say you would be hard pressed to get even $4K for everything right now. I think by the time you are done it will be very close to a wash.

 

[jjahshik32]

sorry lemme clear it up, i have the dual 2.8 quad. With my monitors you guys dont think i can get close to 4500 for it? with my upgrades?? Just curious, havent watched the market price too much.

Ive sold off my 2.8ghz 8 core mac pro with 16gb of ram, nvidia 8800gt, 150gb Raptor drive around 5-6 months ago for around $4200 but that was when the 16gb of RAM was around $700 even from 3rd party but now you can buy that much for $340.

Anyways what is your exact setup?

 

[Macinposh]

sorry lemme clear it up, i have the dual 2.8 quad. With my monitors you guys dont think i can get close to 4500 for it? with my upgrades?? Just curious, havent watched the market price too much.

Hmm... If I were your remaining clients,I would ditch you on the spot.
Not convincing if my content producer would be cutting corners on every occasion and working on equipment that are not optimal for the task..

Not to mention that you would propably end up paying more for a setup that you could work on : 17"MBP+24"+external disks with high enough I/O for editing and extra disks for backup and...


Sorry for your distress,but I can hardly think anyones business would be that much on the edge that you cant keep your all ready paid equipment.Well,if you have been working in the business,the first couple gigs have paid your stuff allready?


The real question is now : do you really work for living or are you just tempted to get a new setup?

 

[Migsy]

Why do you need the laptop? Are you intending to do some FCP work on the road, or at customer's sites etc?

If you don't *need* the portability, but still want to get something new, there's the 24" iMac, but I don't know enough about second hand Mac Pro prices to tell you if you'll actually save any money. You may want to wait and see if Apple release a Quad-Core iMac, but only you can judge whether you need the extra 2 cores or not. I can easily imagine this costing more than the second-hand value of your mac pro, once you factor in the purchase of external storage to make up for that 1.8 TB you have.

There is the saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". If there is something which you cannot do right now (i.e. portability) then change, but otherwise I'd stick with what you have, as all you'd be doing is downgrading.

 

[TrapOx]

sorry lemme clear it up, i have the dual 2.8 quad. With my monitors you guys dont think i can get close to 4500 for it? with my upgrades?? Just curious, havent watched the market price too much.

Not even close. You'd be lucky to get $3,000 for it. Hard drives, ram and cheap monitors don't sweeten the deal much anymore. Fast processors and high end graphics cards do.

Considering the 17" MBP has 1/4 the CPU power of your MP, it would be a big downgrade in performance.