[David Lewis]

Hi Everybody

My first post on the “COW” site… here goes…

Like several of the other posters, I am waiting with growing impatience for the official announcement of the new, presumably Xeon hexacore or dual-hexacore Mac-Pro machines. I haven’t found any online rumours that would shed very much useful light on any “solid” specs, and nobody seems to have any idea of the price/availability, or the impact of the new machines possibly “pushing down” pricing on the Quad MacPros? It would be SO nice if Apple would let a *little* bit of solid information out–a trickle of blood-in-the-water to keep all of us in a feeding frenzy… 🙂

So, assuming that the price is too high, or immediate availability too low–is it possible to crank up the performance of CS5 (or other lower versions) on a dual-Quadcore MacPro by putting in a small SSD-Raid *internally*? Would such a setup work in tandem with the GPU to assist in overall throughput?

Obviously more RAM is ALWAYS a good idea, but what about SSD’s?? Thanks for any advice!