Finally, after getting screwed over by the labor day weekend and missing delivery by 30 minutes, my Mac Pro Quad has arrived. Just had to get the excitement out of me. Lets hope I won't have any migration, video, or SL not included issues.
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Woohoo! My Mac Pro is here.
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Will post pictures in a bit. Camera batteries died on me so I can only use my iPhone for photos.
It's just a base 2.66 Quad at the moment. Plans are for 6-8GB of RAM (any suggestions for 6 or 8?), adding two 1TB WD Black drives and a 2TB drive for Time Machine, and adding a GTX 285. It's going to be a work in progress.
Down to my iPhone now. Migration assistant is giving me 1 hour 22 minutes to transfer 82GB of info from my MBP to my MP. Then I will need to transfer another 200 GB of data from my external til I can update to SL. Looks like I am not gonna have the same issues with video as my MBP did though. I have my Acer H233H monitor hooked up via and HDMI cable to my MP and it seems to be running at full resolution. Downside is as I am writing this post, the time has gone up to 1 hour 32 minutes to transfer my data. I'll see if I can post some photos.
Edit: Here are some photos.
Edit: Here are some photos.
Another question, as I am migrating everything from my MBP over (42 mins left), will I need to reinstall iLife 2009 as it is 2008 on my MBP?
Well, looks like this HDMI cable isn't going to work. VGA is showing 1920x1080 versus 1920x1080 (interlaced). Guess i'm going to have to buy a DVI cable tomorrow.
Alright, Still need to figure out this iTunes problem. All my videos were stored on an external. Is there a way I can import the videos while keeping the playlists? Right now, I have the playlists but the videos only play off the external and if the external is not plugged in, it shows up as missing.
Are you trying to move them all to one Library with all your other iTunes media? If so, I'm pretty sure you can just change the location of your library under preferences > advanced. Then consolidate your library under file > library. But, I may be misunderstanding your question.
My New Mac
Hey, I have a new shiny one too - I didn't realize we were expected to post pics.
Here's my specs and pics:
2009 Quad - 2.66
12GB RAM
1 640GB, (3) 1TB in RAID0, 1TB External Firewire, 500GB External Firewire
XFX 1GB ATI 4870
Geforce GT120
different angle gets the TV
Hey, I have a new shiny one too - I didn't realize we were expected to post pics.
Here's my specs and pics:
2009 Quad - 2.66
12GB RAM
1 640GB, (3) 1TB in RAID0, 1TB External Firewire, 500GB External Firewire
XFX 1GB ATI 4870
Geforce GT120
different angle gets the TV
Oh so that's what that little consolidate library option does. We'll just call this a my bad...
It was just set up like that as I had a short Ethernet cable to transfer my data. I still need to rework a cable but otherwise it is looking good now.
Maybe you guys should take a look at this thread before I sell off the second CPU.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/780300/
Not trying to push anything, but I would rather someone on this forum get it...
Nice setup, congrats!
Very nice.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/780300/
Not trying to push anything, but I would rather someone on this forum get it...
Nice setup, congrats!
Hey, I have a new shiny one too - I didn't realize we were expected to post pics.
Here's my specs and pics:
2009 Quad - 2.66
12GB RAM
1 640GB, (3) 1TB in RAID0, 1TB External Firewire, 500GB External Firewire
XFX 1GB ATI 4870
Geforce GT120
Very nice.