Mac Pro Quad Xeon first generation problems?

[Uli Plank]

If I may respectfully disagree, it’s one point only: I’d rather buy the 2.66 GHz model. Apple has a tradition of making the top of the line version a tad more expensive than is justified by the productivity gain. Rather spend some of the money spared for RAM, it’s expensive enough ritght now and will get more expensive when Vista hits the streets…

We had to decide on renewing our facilities Macs and had a 2.66 Ghz with 4 MB RAM (four 1 GB modules) and the standard graphics for serious testing over 6 weeks. I have a 3 GHz model under my fingers right now and I don’t see that much of a speed gain in everyday work. We didn’t find any serious flaw, the MacPro is reliable and silent even with 3 extra harddisks filling all the slots. It’s built very well internally, the best piece of engineering I’ve seen from Apple regarding expandability until today. We have ordered 6 more to come next week.

If you need it now, buy it now! Even the speed of applications which are still running under Rosetta (like Adobe’s) will be blazing fast compared to what you have now.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Uli Plank] “f I may respectfully disagree, it’s one point only: I’d rather buy the 2.66 GHz model. Apple has a tradition of making the top of the line version a tad more expensive than is justified by the productivity gain. Rather spend some of the money spared for RAM, it’s expensive enough ritght now and will get more expensive when Vista hits the streets…”

Definitely a valid point. The speed difference between our G5 Quad 2.5 and the Mac Pro Quad 3.0 is really not all that much, so the 2.6 is certainly an option.

as I noted before, whatever he gets, he’ll be getting a HUGE speed increase.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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