I currently have a PowerMac G5, and I'm going to buy a new Mac Pro soon. I just was wondering what I can get low features on to save money. Obviously I know the ram and video card and HDD, but can the processor be upgraded also? And can the video card be replaced with a PC card? Or is that still like the IBM days where I'd have to pay over twice the amount for a card that the PC has had for a couple years?
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What can be upgraded on MacPros?
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RAM, HDD, GPU (HA HA!), CPU (doable, but hard), ODD.
Not motherboard or power supply, particularly.
Not motherboard or power supply, particularly.
For OSX usage you need to buy a Mac specific one. There are lots of threads about it: do a search...
Don't forget the optical drive... that's upgradable too.
Though using a non-Apple drive will not allow you to burn discs if your using iApps with the exception of iTunes.
There are only seven that work in OS X as opposed to the dozens available for Windows.
7300, X1900, Quadro 4500, HD 2600, 8800 GT, Quadro 5600, and 3870.
The 4850 and 4870 are rumored to be coming, but don't bet on it.
I said ODD (optical disk drive). What did you think I meant?
No pun intended but Mac OS X support far more graphic cards than those you listed.
Those you did list, however, are the ones the current Mac Pro does support at this moment.
Well, as we're talking about the Mac Pro exclusively, I figured that he'd know that I meant "booted into".
If I got a really good graphics card and put it in a Mac Pro, would I be able to use it in Windows?
What I was thinking was getting the lowest card Apple offers for the Mac Pro, and then getting a really good one to use when I boot into Windows. So I'd have two cards in the Mac Pro. Would that work?
What I was thinking was getting the lowest card Apple offers for the Mac Pro, and then getting a really good one to use when I boot into Windows. So I'd have two cards in the Mac Pro. Would that work?
