Sorry if some of this is noob stuff.
First the details. I have had a few macs usually as my 2nd computer including G4 1.42 mini and Dual Core MacBook. The mini was a little slow for my taste even at the time but I really like the MacBook, unfortunately it was used for work and I could not get an app I need there to get along with boot camp. My wife who is a graphic artist/web designer had at G4 Quicksilver I bought her college (before we were married, so she could spend more time with me and less at the computer lab
) This past spring I bought her a base Mac Pro as I had been salivating on them for some time. I also gave her 2 Samsung 214T LCD's I was using and bought myself 2 24" ones that did 1080p so I could use one as my part time Xbox 360 monitor. So now I am constantly taunted by her nice Mac Pro. She won't let me put boot camp on it and do all the computer geek things I want to so I figure I should just get my own. I have been dabbling with the whole OS X86 off and on but it is just not a good deal for something you need from a stability/compatibility stand point. So I kind of gave up on ti and bought a new motherboard, ect and build a PC with a Q6600 processor, 7900gtx card, 2gigs ram, and 2 500gig hds and a 1 750gighd. It is running Vista 32. Would have liked Vista 64 so I could up the ram for video/sound editing but it's just not there yet.
So I am thinking about selling all that and getting a Mac Pro instead. So here are a few questions sorry if they are repeats.
From what I read it runs Windows pretty good. Is it safe to assume that Boot Camp should perform at least as well on the Pro as it did on my C2D MB.
I also assume that the 3 hds that I have can be used in the Mac Pro since they are SATA 3gb/s drives.
I am having a hard time deciding between getting a base with the 2.66/7300 for $2500 or getting the 3.0 dual/1900xt. I figure that down the road I could always swap the processors out or get an 1900xt for about $250. The only computer game I play these days is WOW, mostly just play games on the 360.
Oh well just looking for any comments.
First the details. I have had a few macs usually as my 2nd computer including G4 1.42 mini and Dual Core MacBook. The mini was a little slow for my taste even at the time but I really like the MacBook, unfortunately it was used for work and I could not get an app I need there to get along with boot camp. My wife who is a graphic artist/web designer had at G4 Quicksilver I bought her college (before we were married, so she could spend more time with me and less at the computer lab
So I am thinking about selling all that and getting a Mac Pro instead. So here are a few questions sorry if they are repeats.
From what I read it runs Windows pretty good. Is it safe to assume that Boot Camp should perform at least as well on the Pro as it did on my C2D MB.
I also assume that the 3 hds that I have can be used in the Mac Pro since they are SATA 3gb/s drives.
I am having a hard time deciding between getting a base with the 2.66/7300 for $2500 or getting the 3.0 dual/1900xt. I figure that down the road I could always swap the processors out or get an 1900xt for about $250. The only computer game I play these days is WOW, mostly just play games on the 360.
Oh well just looking for any comments.