Photo editing.
I shoot lots of RAW (with my Canon 5D), and also often have to export multiple versions of multiple photos as TIFFs, so I need lots of storage capacity, which the 'Pro is great with. It's great being able to slap more hard drives in there when the need arises.
However - I so totally did NOT need an 8 core processor. I should have saved the $1500 and settled with the quad. Photo editing is a long time consuming endeavor and in my situation it wouldn't matter if I had 4 fewer cores.
Four gigs of RAM sure isn't enough though. I'm going to save to double that eventually, around the time I need to slap the second hard drive in there. Aperture is the most memory hogging application I run, and I understand it may not be as bad as Premiere or Final Cut, but it definitely requires far more resources than Photoshop CS3.
Secondary uses for my Mac Pro -- serving as uber sarcastic, quasi-troll at startrek.com.
I shoot lots of RAW (with my Canon 5D), and also often have to export multiple versions of multiple photos as TIFFs, so I need lots of storage capacity, which the 'Pro is great with. It's great being able to slap more hard drives in there when the need arises.
However - I so totally did NOT need an 8 core processor. I should have saved the $1500 and settled with the quad. Photo editing is a long time consuming endeavor and in my situation it wouldn't matter if I had 4 fewer cores.
Four gigs of RAM sure isn't enough though. I'm going to save to double that eventually, around the time I need to slap the second hard drive in there. Aperture is the most memory hogging application I run, and I understand it may not be as bad as Premiere or Final Cut, but it definitely requires far more resources than Photoshop CS3.
Secondary uses for my Mac Pro -- serving as uber sarcastic, quasi-troll at startrek.com.