What will you do with your next Mac Pro 8 core?

[LeKiD]

Editing? Photoshop? 3D?

 

[Tracer]

Lots of Video Editing.

Maybe some fooling around with Maya.

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[Much Ado]

Coffee table?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

HD video editing with FCP2. Some Photoshop.

 

[vohdoun]

Get enganged to it! :sarcasm:

 

[Topper]

Trade it in for a PC with a good video card.
Just joking, but I am scared that the video card(s) will be a disappointment.

Anyway...
Video editing of many different kinds. (FCP, Combustion, Compressor etc)
3D Rendering
Play X-Plane
Photoshop
Edit and Make DVDs. (MacTheRipper, DVD2oneZ, Toast 8, DVD SP, Cinematize etc)
Internet
e-mail
Word processing
Budgeting.
iPod, iTunes downloading.
Maybe screw around with Windows.
Illustrator
Quark
GTD type organizing
Porn (just joking, maybe not, well maybe, no won't do it, well...)

 

[Sean Dempsey]

Drive around in my flying car with my robot servants, listening to the latest reports on the Mars colony and wondering if we are ever getting out of Iraq.

 

[sblasl]

Check e-mail, Safari, update my iPhone & iPods, see what the weather is, check the time of day, look up addresses & phone in Address Book, and stream music & video to my TV...

I sure hope the new Mac Pro will be able to handle all of this and obviously I will need that new video card.

 

[vicious7]

Drive around in my flying car with my robot servants, listening to the latest reports on the Mars colony and wondering if we are ever getting out of Iraq.

lmao...lucky I wasn't drinking anything when I read this.

 

[darthraige]

Lots and lots of editing and encoding.

 

[Multimedia]

Look For More Clues How To Get Qmaster Working

So far no luck with the 4 core. Maybe I just need more cores.

 

[MacsAttack]

8 cores? Piffil! No way am I upgrading until they hit 16 - or maybe 32 cores!

Who wants a measly 8 cores!

 

[slughead]

Porn.

 

[Nugget]

Final Cut Studio, Civ4, World of Warcraft, and distributed.net. Tons of ssh. PostgreSQL development. X-Plane and a gigantic iPhoto Library.

 

[mBurns]

Drive around in my flying car with my robot servants, listening to the latest reports on the Mars colony and wondering if we are ever getting out of Iraq.

 

[Eidorian]

1. Game
2. Convert/Edit Video
3. Crush Other Computers

 

[deux-ex-mak]

surf the net

Actually, real time play and edit 2K and HD dpx frames while Shake renders flipbooks, Motion plays multi-layered hi-rez graphics, and Compressor encodes huge batches of clips to different formats.

8 cores? Piffil! No way am I upgrading until they hit 16 - or maybe 32 cores!

Who wants a measly 8 cores!

I don't need 8 cores, I need 32. But I will happily use 8 until more are available.

 

[theman]

Get 8 30" ACD's and play 8 different 3D games all at the same time. Wait, the video card will probably be a Geforce4 or something... nvm.

 

[Grimace]

send email really quickly.

 

[mward333]

More computing! I don't care at all about the debates over graphics cards (I bought three of the simple GeForce 7300 cards), but I love the speed at which I can compute with my MacPro. See my signature. It's great.

 

[Multimedia]

Link Aggregation Is Your Solution

8 cores? Piffil! No way am I upgrading until they hit 16 - or maybe 32 cores! Who wants a measly 8 cores!

No problem. Just buy multiple 8 core Mac Pros and use Link Aggregation to get them all working together as one.

 

[Topper]

1. Game

That surprises me.
I didn't think you were looking for that powerful of a video card.

 

[Father Jack]

I suppose the same things I'm doing at the minute ..