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What did YOU buy your Mac Pro for?

ProEngineer and Inventor, with a bit of CATIA thrown in, along with gaming, watching TV shows, and listening to music.
 
Design (web + print), development and lots of virtualization with a bit of gaming thrown in for good measure.
 
goMac said:
I bought mine to heat my apartment.
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LOL!

Mine does that too! Especially if Maya is pooping out a render.

I actually bought mine for expandability (I lied, I never played farmville 😛) and speed.

I use, on a daily basis:

- Maya (omg renders are sooo fast!)
- ZBrush (this runs so fast too!!! HD modeling is awesome)
- Corel Painter (No more turning off brush ghosting!)
- Unity 3D (always runs well but still decently faster then on my lappy)
- XCode
- Aperture (WOW this runs much faster then on my laptop)
- Logic (I don't delve too deep into this one but so I don't notice a speed difference but I'm sure I would if I did more with it. My needs are basic with this guy)
-Photoshop

I've had it since monday but haven't got to really start setting it up until wed, then I got my wisdom teeth pulled thurs so I was out most of thurs, and by this morning (sunday) I finally got all of my programs reinstalled, all of my ram/hard drives installed, all of my backups finished (those take a looong time) and now the only thing missing are dual 27 inchers. Once those are available my setup will be complete 😀

This thing is fast. I've ripped my few movies that I have left that haven't been destroyed and ripping is so fast and encoding is ridiculously fast (using handbrake) and I don't even have the 64 bit version. (I can't find it and 64 bit vlc 🙁 )

Anyway I absolutely love the thing and recommend it to anyone.

Well, enough playing around. I have a TON of 3d work to get done now that its up and running 😀 (Well, I shouldn't say work, I'm a student so a ton of hobby to get done 😛 )
 
chrono1081 said:
This thing is fast. I've ripped my few movies that I have left that haven't been destroyed and ripping is so fast and encoding is ridiculously fast (using handbrake) and I don't even have the 64 bit version. (I can't find it and 64 bit vlc 🙁 )
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You might want to check here for a 64-bit version of VLC. Here you can find the 64-bit version of Handbrake.
 
So I'm the only one that bought it for Starcraft 2?

No but really, I'll probably install that first and marvel at how fast it runs.

After a few days of that I'll go back to what I'll mostly be using it for: Aperture, Photoshop, and Xcode.
 
I wanted to buy a configurable mac to last at least 10 years.
So I decided to buy 2006 Mac Pro.
Last year I upgraded to ATI 4870. Next move will be SSDs more RAMs and fans on the RAMs from max upgrades, did anyone tried them by the way?
Then ATI 5870.

I know one thing for sure. I have been using my Mac Pro for 4 years, but till now I did not release it's true power 🙂
 
Just pulled the trigger. 6 core 6 gigs of memory to start. 5870.

Will use for gaming, software dev for iphone/ipad if I ever get over my phobia of C based stuff.

Photoshop, maybe learn to take better photos.
 
Home based graphic design business with a side of video editing and photography when the clients ask for them. (CS5 Master Suite).
 
hms84 said:
I wanted to buy a configurable mac to last at least 10 years.
So I decided to buy 2006 Mac Pro.
Last year I upgraded to ATI 4870. Next move will be SSDs more RAMs and fans on the RAMs from max upgrades, did anyone tried them by the way?
Then ATI 5870.

I know one thing for sure. I have been using my Mac Pro for 4 years, but till now I did not release it's true power 🙂
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10 years is a ambitious plan,even by Soviet union standards!
But as said,the 06 seems to have long legs,if you are working in print/music,so the the 6+ years probably wont be that far fetched.
Unless (who the hell am I kidding,WHEN) apple makes 10.7 64 bit only and handicaps purposefully the oldie.


Btw,why the heck ram fans? Havent heard anyone having issues with heating memory,even how loaded they are.
 
Alright, so more seriously...

I do visual effects work, OpenGL programming, multicore and GPU programming research, and a bit of gaming. Mac Pro is a pretty decent machine for that. Got mine with dual GPU's so I can do dual GPU programming work (both with OpenGL and CUDA/OpenCL).

Getting a 5870 though. Willing to sacrifice my CUDA work for a GPU that actually works. Besides, I have a 16 core machine with a Tesla available to me if I need it.
 
Mackilroy said:
You might want to check here for a 64-bit version of VLC. Here you can find the 64-bit version of Handbrake.
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Thank you so much!!! I don't know why I couldn't find the 64 bit VLC (found the handbrake but not the VLC).

Now I have to go find a movie to try this out on...(Avatar looks to be within my reach...)
 
chrono1081 said:
Thank you so much!!! I don't know why I couldn't find the 64 bit VLC (found the handbrake but not the VLC).

Now I have to go find a movie to try this out on...(Avatar looks to be within my reach...)
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I should warn you that some builds of VLC in 64-bit are very buggy.
 
I ordered the 2.93 8 core that popped up in the refurb store a couple of hours ago for music production.
 
Macinposh said:
10 years is a ambitious plan,even by Soviet union standards!
But as said,the 06 seems to have long legs,if you are working in print/music,so the the 6+ years probably wont be that far fetched.
Unless (who the hell am I kidding,WHEN) apple makes 10.7 64 bit only and handicaps purposefully the oldie.


Btw,why the heck ram fans? Havent heard anyone having issues with heating memory,even how loaded they are.
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6 more years to go 🙂

They really heat up, I am really thinking of getting to compare the performance. Max Upgrades have them.
 
Mac Pro 3.2

Purchased Mac Pro 3.2 with 12 gigs of ram (transintl), 4 2TB HDDs and 5870 video card. Setup is for heavy photography use, light video editing, web design and storage.

Box is also specked for all of the random things I generally end up trying at least once!
 
I got mine for 3D (still artwork and VFX/motion graphics) using Blender 2.5, and I might teach myself Terragen one of these days. And C4D and Mudbox are both on my purchase horizon. We'll see how far Blender will take me for it quits getting feasible. 🙂 Also, FCP for the usual video editing stuff, and some Motion and DVD SP. I also seem to wind up doing audio post a lot of the time, since I (kinda-sorta-not-really) know how to do it, which is a rarity among college students, it would seem.

Kinda of a generalist-becuase-I'm-still-in-school here. 🙂

EDIT: DId I get through this whole post without mentioning Photoshop's RAM hungry ass?
 
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