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Who's anticipating buying a 2010 Mac Pro?
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I managed to pick one up last month for $1,800, and sold for $2,200
Great machine, just couldn't bring myself to keep without some form of AppleCare.
All I want to know what kind of GPU Apple is planning to put in the new Mac Pro's and will it be user friendly with older Mac Pro's
I'm planning to put up my 2008 8-Core Mac Pro up for sale on Craigslist but i'm in the San Diego, Ca Area I have
Dual 3.2GHz Quad-Cores (8-Core)
4GB of Ram
Two 500GB of HD
512MB 8800GT
Airport Extreme
Two SuperDrives
Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
Mighty Mouse
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Mac OS X Leopard
1yr AppleCare
Original Box
It will be awesome that if Apple puts ATi 5970 as a High-end Card (if it fits in a Mac Pro) and maybe Nvidia 300 Series as a low-end GPU
A high-end ATI card is the FirePro V8700.
Check out application certifications as well:
http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/applications/Pages/applications.aspx
Apple has a lot of people fooled into thinking that a common gaming card is the best graphics card on the market. The rest buy the only NVIDIA option, or buy a Linux/Windows box that supports certified graphics.
I've been anticipating buying a Mac Pro, but a contender has entered the ring.
http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/
http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/
I will definatly be getting a new 12 core machine. Im still on a dual 2.7 non pci x. It cant take the strain of some higher end reverbs. No pci x means i cant use UAD cards as they are pci x. the 12 core is going to be so powerful you could run a small country off it. No more freezing tracks for me. plus i guess i can get 700 bucks for my 2.7 which is amazing for a 5 year old machine if it where a pc it would be worth nothin these machine hold value very well!
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man wow! You're making me drool! That's pretty Awsome. Any idea on pricing?
voyagerd said:
man wow! You're making me drool! That's pretty Awsome. Any idea on pricing?
Here is a link to extreme systems that a guy who crunches data on WCG built one. He did some bench marks and boy does this dual 6 core system fly. Don't think apples new mac pro will come close but will see. Read here...
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=246135&page=19 .
Go to page 1 to see pics of the board up close. Its a monster board.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=246135&page=19 .
Go to page 1 to see pics of the board up close. Its a monster board.
Yep.Did you see the bench testing results?
Now that's what I call a board. I wonder what it could do with software utilizing GPGPU processing and filling the slots with Teslas?
//heart attack//
Thanks for the info Umbongo. This is my first entry into the mac pro world so I'll probably be coming in from the bottom of the line. So looks like I'm looking for a 2.8Ghz quad core on craigslist (exclusive to 2008 right? no 2.8ghz quad core before or after? When did the 2008s first rollout and when were they upgraded?).
My previous home computers have been the Mac Mini. But I'd like to start getting into some more intense tasks myself such as video editing. And maybe my wife can benefit too since she's getting into photo editing. My primary computer is the 2.2ghz MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa - which I'm planning on replacing once the next upgrade rolls out and they are available refurbished (hopefully sometime this year since my applecare expires late - I think November and I don't like keeping my portables past when the applecare expires). My wife's is a MacBook Air I bought for her Spring 2009
Techhie & Cycom, thanks for giving me some prices to work with with these posts:
I managed to pick one up last month for $1,800, and sold for $2,200
Great machine, just couldn't bring myself to keep without some form of AppleCare.
Yeah, when I buy macs from craigslist (home macs, don't go the portable route through craigslist) I look for either something with applecare or for it to be less than a year old for the manufacturer's (although I'm guessing a less than one year old 2008 will probably be harder now since we're a few months into 2010).
I've been able to do good on pricing with the Mac Minis and craigslist at least. Back in early 2006 I bought a one month old 1.42ghz G4 Mac Mini that was just a month old for $375 since the intel mac mini had just rolled out. The seller had paid $599+ tax for it but just wanted to get rid of it.
Early 2009 I bought a Mac mini (Mid 2007) 1.83 C2D that was a few months old for $375. At the time it was retailing for $599.
I'm curious on your pricing but with it being 8-core, it's going to be out the range I want to pay. I saw you said 1 year applecare - do you mean you have 1 year of applecare left from now? meaning you bought it around this time 2008?
They sold from January the 8th 2008 through to March 3rd 2009, but have been available refurbished since then. You should find them for around $1,600 - $1,800 used and usually with some upgrades. $1,999 on the Apple store refurbished section when they have them.
sata6, usb 3, . . . for god's sake why can't Apple be more forward thinking like this?
I have to say that I agree with that. I moved most of my media back to my iMac once I got the 27" (specifically iTunes), and the hard drive does slow down when I use it, EyeTV and do other tasks.
I am planning on getting a Drobo S later this year to rectify the situation.
With Nvidia's new cards right around the corner and ATI's 5800s(and 5970) well established I imagine that apple will be putting the 5870 as the high end non-workstation card. They never put the absolute latest GPU's in new mac pro's so I doubt we will see GTX480 this round, and they never put in the highest end enthusiast level cards, so the dual GPU 5970 would not be likely.
I sure hope so. My early 08 MP could use a 5870. I would love to have that card in my mac pro.