the painful choice for mere mortals...

[snouter]

There is more than just the computer. I already have good monitors.

But still, it makes sense, if you are coming all this way to upgrade the video card ($200) and getting four 4GB ram sticks will run another ($600).

This makes the 3.2 quad $3500 and the 3.33 six core $4500.

Makes sense to consider a 256GB SSD ($600) at some point as well.

Now the Prices are $4100 and $5100 to properly kit out either machine.

Taxes add a couple hundred more to the above.

Seems like only yesterday the 3.2 Octo was the common, now we beg the man to please, please, just give us one hyperthreading quad core, please!

The six core would be joy, and its resale would be easy and see a fair price. Is that enough to warrant the missing $1000 up front?

 

[psychometry]

Don't buy any of your upgrades from Apple. Get that **** from OWC or NewEgg and spend half as much.

 

[jjahshik32]

I'm contemplating on the 3.2GHz QUAD or the 3.33GHz 6 core but man a $1000 more for 2 more cores and 130MHz more?

I think the best deal is to get the 3.2GHz QUAD and save yourself the $1000. Sure the 6 core looks cool and its made with the 32nm process but is it worth the $1000 more?? I can get a 13" 2.4GHz macbook pro from microcenter ($999) with that much more!

Also for most people that 3.33GHz wouldnt be that much faster as to the 3.2GHz. At least Apple is giving us some type of deal (pretty much drop in price of the 3.2GHz model) as its pricing just before the update was the same price as the current 6 core Mac Pro.

 

[snouter]

Don't buy any of your upgrades from Apple. Get that **** from OWC or NewEgg and spend half as much.

um, yeah, the video card is prolly best from Apple, but the ram and ssd would obviously be after market

 

[eponym]

I'm contemplating on the 3.2GHz QUAD or the 3.33GHz 6 core but man a $1000 more for 2 more cores and 130MHz more?

I think the best deal is to get the 3.2GHz QUAD and save yourself the $1000. Sure the 6 core looks cool and its made with the 32nm process but is it worth the $1000 more?? I can get a 13" 2.4GHz macbook pro from microcenter ($999) with that much more!

Also for most people that 3.33GHz wouldnt be that much faster as to the 3.2GHz. At least Apple is giving us some type of deal (pretty much drop in price of the 3.2GHz model) as its pricing just before the update was the same price as the current 6 core Mac Pro.

You're completely ignoring the 50% larger L3 cache and faster RAM.

Is it worth the extra $1,000? Maybe not if you're just planning to use it for ~2 years. But if you want to stretch out the life of the Pro over 4+ years, absolutely. As software gets better, the speed differences will grow wider and wider.