Which Mac Pro?

[iisarenotnobody]

Looking to get a Mac Pro, but I don't know which one to purchase.

Plan #1
Quad Core Mac Pro 3Ghz
14GB RAM
Airport
ATI X1900XT
30" Cinema Display
20" Cinema Display
External iSight
1.25 TB

Plan #2
Just Released Mac Pro Quad 2.66
8GB RAM
Airport
3x GT 120
1.4TB
Dual Superdrives
3x Asus Full HD Displays (http://tinyurl.com/69ypzk)
Dell Mini 9 (Ubuntu)

Thanks for the help ahead of time.

 

[bumzo1]

personally I would get the last gen mainly for the 2 ACDs and we do not know the benchmarks of the quad 2.66 yet compared to the 3.0

 

[gan6660]

Go with plan 2 you will have 3 monitors instead of 2 and the netbook.

 

[twoodcc]

is plan #1 8-core?

 

[aaquib]

I'd go with option 1 because of the RAM and ACD's. If you could find away to get ACD's with option 2, then go for that.

Mac Pro + ACD's + iSight = bliss

 

[iisarenotnobody]

is plan #1 8-core?

No its the Quad core 3Ghz

I'd go with option 1 because of the RAM and ACD's. If you could find away to get ACD's with option 2, then go for that.

Mac Pro + ACD's + iSight = bliss

Are the ACD's that great? I LOVE my iMac display, are they basically the same?

 

[Tallest Skil]

This is 50% hijack and 50% help, so sorry, I guess.

Here are two Mac Pro images from Apple. Number 1 is from their PR page on the machine and number 2 is from their design page.

Is number 1 the quad-core and number 2 the eight-core? If so, why is the four-core heatsink so MASSIVE?

Oh, and definitely go with the new model.

 

[iisarenotnobody]

I'm Guessing that the big heatsink is for the quad, but I do not understand why the 8 core would have smaller heatsinks, shouldn't that be the opposite??