What did YOU buy your Mac Pro for?

[NickCG]

Design work, print and web. Video editing + a little sound work. And, after all that, a lot of Gaming.

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.

You are not alone, my machine is primarily for work, but that shall also be the first thing I'll do too.

I bought mine to heat my apartment.

Due to the hours I expect the machine to be on for (8~ hours a day of work, 4-5~ hours a day of gaming).. well, I expect similar results.

 

[3282868]

Porn

 

[Vylen]

Got my Mac Pro to crack walnuts.... an ~18kg aluminium machine works wonders.

Oh and to make my friends feel inadequate about their machines too.

 

[CaptainChunk]

I bought mine to one-up the neighbor across the street.

Primary uses for mine are video editing in FCP, video rendering/encoding and After Effects work. I rarely play games, but I keep a Windows installation on a dedicated drive for when I do.

 

[maghemi]

At the time, I bought mine because the iMac graphics options were so woefully inadequate.

If I were buying again now, it would be an iMac. But my 08 has got many years left in it yet.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Architectural 3D rendering/animation...one of the few things that can use all of the cores you can throw at it

 

[chrono1081]

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

It IS RAM hungry! When I have photoshop cs5, Maya 2011, and Unity 3D open and Im texturing I watch my 24 gigs of ram dwindle down like its nothing :'( Piggy programs!

 

[Salavat23]

To type up and submit this post.

 

[eponym]

I got mine to rub in the faces of my coworkers on their crappy Dell Precision workstations that keep breaking down.

 

[jono_3]

pro tools

 

[kbolte]

I bought it for: $2,499 less the eduction discount!

 

[Mr_Ed]

Web browsing.



j/k

Mostly photography hobby. Running Adobe Lightroom and other image editing stuff. Also like to do a bit of gaming now and then. I could probably get by with an iMac but I like the expandability of the Mac Pro.

 

[glay78]

I like Mac Pro bcos of the design and of course the expandability. Used it for Photoshop, FCP, Premier Pro, Aperture and ripping of CDs and DVDs. I game too on bootcamp win7 and gfx is impt to me. Only Mac Pro allows gfx upgrade.

 

[3282868]

I bought it for: $2,499 less the eduction discount!

A 2010 model? Wow, that's a good price. I bought my 2008 8-core when I worked at Apple PR (had a great discount, miss that) for a little less than that. I'll be keeping mine until next years model, I have a sense that the 2011 Mac Pro will have more significant updates .

 

[DigitalVT]

I'll be using mine as a video playback machine, SD and HD, editing with FCP, conversions and encoding and have a few more ideas if AMD get off their arses and release Eyefinity for OSX!!