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3 Mac Pro 2x3.2 xeon Towers, 16-32gig ram each, 4TB Raid 1
2 30" Cinema Display HD
3 Cintiq 12x , 21x ,
2 MacBook Pro 17" w/ 24" LED Cinema Display
1 Power Mac G4
2 30" Cinema Display HD
3 Cintiq 12x , 21x ,
2 MacBook Pro 17" w/ 24" LED Cinema Display
1 Power Mac G4
Mac pro #1: 2.8 Octo
10gb ram
24 inch Dell monitor
Drive 1: 300gb
Drive 2: 1TB for iTunes
Drive 3: 250gb scratch
External OWC dual drive w/1TB drive for backup
Mac pro #2: 2.0 quad
8gb ram
17 inch Mag monitor
Drive 1: 300gb
Drive 2: 500gb backup
The new octo is for video editing and crunching data for world community grid when not editing. The quad is now just crunching.
10gb ram
24 inch Dell monitor
Drive 1: 300gb
Drive 2: 1TB for iTunes
Drive 3: 250gb scratch
External OWC dual drive w/1TB drive for backup
Mac pro #2: 2.0 quad
8gb ram
17 inch Mag monitor
Drive 1: 300gb
Drive 2: 500gb backup
The new octo is for video editing and crunching data for world community grid when not editing. The quad is now just crunching.
Which do you have?
5 Months!!!??? not that long
It's not that long considering I've been waiting for around thirteen years...
Soyo DYLM24D6. I managed to get two that WEREN'T TN panels, so that's really awesome.
They're MVA panels, and I got both of them for $500 total. Built-in speakers, too. I can't WAIT to hook both of them up.
Mine...
2x 3.2GHZ (Octacore)
16GB of ram
Nvidia Quadro FX5600 1.5GB
2x2TBl HardDrives, for holding lots of data (Just got, really good for the moment)
1x 300GB 10000RPM Harddrive has files which are needed occasionally.
1x 256GB SSD, built for speed... But a bugger to fit, had to make a special rack LOL just to fit it into the drive bay... Main System Drive for getting files used every day
1x E-Sata PCI-Express Card
2x 30" Toshiba High Resolution Monitors (Medical) Used to be Apple ones but they weren't really legal for me to practice
(radiology) using them...
Some Random 6TB raid array which I don't know the name of but it's connected by E-Sata
Apps Always Running.... No one else has so I thought that I should....
Safari 4 (Much faster than 3)
Mail
iChat
Growl
Photoshop CS4
Aperture 2
Keynote/Pages one or the other...
Aycan Workstation Osirix...
Activity Moniter
Paralels Desktop 4 running Vista Ultimate 64BIT to run some of my med
softwAre that does not run on mac (it really annoys me sometimes)
Well that's about it and it's nice to see that I'm not the only person who's spending a fortune on Apple Products...
Jack
2x 3.2GHZ (Octacore)
16GB of ram
Nvidia Quadro FX5600 1.5GB
2x2TBl HardDrives, for holding lots of data (Just got, really good for the moment)
1x 300GB 10000RPM Harddrive has files which are needed occasionally.
1x 256GB SSD, built for speed... But a bugger to fit, had to make a special rack LOL just to fit it into the drive bay... Main System Drive for getting files used every day
1x E-Sata PCI-Express Card
2x 30" Toshiba High Resolution Monitors (Medical) Used to be Apple ones but they weren't really legal for me to practice
(radiology) using them...
Some Random 6TB raid array which I don't know the name of but it's connected by E-Sata
Apps Always Running.... No one else has so I thought that I should....
Safari 4 (Much faster than 3)
iChat
Growl
Photoshop CS4
Aperture 2
Keynote/Pages one or the other...
Aycan Workstation Osirix...
Activity Moniter
Paralels Desktop 4 running Vista Ultimate 64BIT to run some of my med
softwAre that does not run on mac (it really annoys me sometimes)
Well that's about it and it's nice to see that I'm not the only person who's spending a fortune on Apple Products...
Jack
Thanks, yeah my wife cringed when she saw the bill... But I just ran away came back later and she had calmed down. LOL
The trick is to hide your tech reciets from your wives
I love my Mac Pro!
2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core (2006 model)
6 GB Ram
Radeon x1900
bay one: 250 GB stock drive
bay two: 1TB Samsung F1
Samsung Syncmaster 2443bw monitor (with pivot)
lots of music hardware and software
I would love to update the processors in a couple of year's time with quad core ones. Anyone have any new news on this? When would be a good (economic) time to do this?
2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core (2006 model)
6 GB Ram
Radeon x1900
bay one: 250 GB stock drive
bay two: 1TB Samsung F1
Samsung Syncmaster 2443bw monitor (with pivot)
lots of music hardware and software
I would love to update the processors in a couple of year's time with quad core ones. Anyone have any new news on this? When would be a good (economic) time to do this?
My baby:
2x 2.8GHZ (8 core)
8GB ram
2x WD 640GB drives in Raid 0 (Boot)
1x Seagate 1.5TB (Internal)
1x WD Caviar Black 1TB (Internal)
2x 1TB WD external HDs
1x 500GB Seagate external HD
External Lite-ON Blu-Ray ROM
nVidia 8800GT
2x 24 inch monitors
And Imma be adding a 2TB HD soon, but I am on the fence if I want an external Firewire 800 or the new WD 2TB in the optical bay.
2x 2.8GHZ (8 core)
8GB ram
2x WD 640GB drives in Raid 0 (Boot)
1x Seagate 1.5TB (Internal)
1x WD Caviar Black 1TB (Internal)
2x 1TB WD external HDs
1x 500GB Seagate external HD
External Lite-ON Blu-Ray ROM
nVidia 8800GT
2x 24 inch monitors
And Imma be adding a 2TB HD soon, but I am on the fence if I want an external Firewire 800 or the new WD 2TB in the optical bay.
3ghz quads (clovertowns) are running 1200 bucks new at newegg. Been keeping an eye on ebay. Lowest I found was 700 bucks.
8 Core 3.2 Mac Pro, 8GB RAM (2x4GB)
GeForce 8800 GT
2x Intel X25-M 80GB RAID-0 (160GB) (LIGHTNING FAST!)
2x Hitachi 1TB RAID-0 (2TB) (Internal Storage)
SeriTek 2SE2-E PCI-E Card
SeriTek 2EN2 Dual-Bay eSATA
2x Hitachi 1TB (Local Storage)
30" Apple Cinema HD Display
Taken this morning with a sprinkle of snow
Im just wandering why do people need 10 gigs of ram and 4 1 tb hard drives? not being rude just curious
I've only got 8GB but I found out over the weekend while working between Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator that I only had 350MB of RAM available. Most of it was being used by all my working apps so it just shows that 8GB isn't enough for what I'm doing. I'm going to invest in another 8GB sometime this week. In regards to storage space. Most of my projects are 10-20GB in size (photography, artwork etc.) so space quickly gets filled over the months. I don't think you can ever have too much space when working professionally.
Not necessarily. There is a BIG difference between active, inactive and "free" memory.
Open up activity monitor and look at what you are actually using. Look at the attachment of my system. 5.5GB memory but it appears as though only 550mb is free. Not at all. 3.4GB of that memory is inactive. That means programs have claimed it as their own but aren't using it. In Classic (OS 9 and earlier) you could manually set how much ram an application takes and it would keep that memory no matter what until it was closed. OS X has dynamic memory allocation, meaning it can take inactive memory and give it to applications as they need it.
Think of inactive memory as an empty parking lot and OS X as the parking lot manager directing traffic.
I can almost guarantee that if you buy that extra 8gb you will see less than 1gb "free" within a few hours.
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Because it's cheap and basically lets you feel you aren't hardware limited. I mean 1TB drives were $400 at launch and I thikn the original 667MHz FB-DIMM were $100/GB. Memory and storage (1TB drives are pretty fast unless you fill them) can really improve performance.
It looks like I scared Macpropro80 away with my ruse (see post #8) earlier in the thread. I guess he didn't think it was funny. It appears that he can dish it out, but cannot take it. Oh well....
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I don't need to waitI have the money nowI just don't need it right away, so I can wait for Gainestown.
Which works out nicely.
If you don't need it right away, then why do you need such a powerful machine?
You are going all out, for fun?
What do you plan to use it for?