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| Thread ID: 76383 | 2007-01-30 20:07:00 | I DID IT! I GOT A MAC PRO!! | maverickoc (7240) | PC World Chat |
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| 520786 | 2007-01-31 01:11:00 | And please understand that I need to have Windows- as much as I hate it, i have no choice Why do you? And in that case why waste that much money on hardware that will be obsolete in no time? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 520787 | 2007-01-31 01:45:00 | Why do you? And in that case why waste that much money on hardware that will be obsolete in no time? What do you base that theory on?:confused: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 520788 | 2007-01-31 01:48:00 | What do you base that theory on?:confused:As soon as you buy it. However, you will have something that will last you quite a long time. My nearly 4 year-old Athlon XP based system, with minor tweaks, GF card and RAM upgrade, is still fine for my needs. I hope to get another 2+ years out of it. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 520789 | 2007-01-31 01:58:00 | Well there is obsolete and there is a 3 - 4 year hardware lifespan. Depends of course on the reason for getting such high specd hardware that can run 2 OSs simultaneously. As a home user I couldn't even begin to dream about spending that sort of cash - even $2,000 is a fair amount but if I was buying a hi specd machine for commercial use like engineering or design of somesort and could write off the cost as a tax deductable expense then I could see a reason for it. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 520790 | 2007-01-31 03:10:00 | YUSS!! I now officially own one of the fastest workstations on the earth!! is currently running Windows Vista Ultimate and the performance is blistering. 2x 3.0GHz Dual Core Xeon (Thats right, 3GHz in each core!) 8GB of DDR2 ECC 512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 1x 250GB HD, 3x 500GB HD in SoftRaid DVD SuperDrive but the best part of the package? the 23 inch Apple Cinema Display!! lol. And please understand that I need to have Windows- as much as I hate it, i have no choice An apple mac?, running Windows software?, does not compute? It is an apple isnt it?, I thought that although it was Intel cpu x86, it would still have Mac software.......confused... However 4 x 3Ghz processor, LOL, that would do some mean encoding..... Thats the spec on my new SQL box! enjoy |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 520791 | 2007-01-31 03:16:00 | An apple mac?, running Windows software?, does not compute? You might want to check out Parallels http://www.parallels.com/ or Boot Camp. Things have changed a lot in the last 2 years or so. It is what is known as an Intel Mac as opposed to the "old" IBM/Motorola PPC chips in the G4 and G5 series of Macs. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 520792 | 2007-01-31 03:16:00 | An apple mac?, running Windows software?, does not compute? It is an apple isnt it?, I thought that although it was Intel cpu x86, it would still have Mac software.......confused... However 4 x 3Ghz processor, LOL, that would do some mean encoding..... Thats the spec on my new SQL box! enjoy well you can either dual boot, run windows within OS X or delete apple OS and run soley Vista. either way apples high end machines are competitive price wise with dell's work stations |
plod (107) | ||
| 520793 | 2007-01-31 04:19:00 | What do you base that theory on?:confused: Years of observation. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 520794 | 2007-01-31 04:22:00 | Well I guess you could say the same for most electronic goods and computer software, which is why if your in business you have depreciation. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 520795 | 2007-01-31 05:11:00 | why did you buy such an expensive/powerful machine? i'm sure you can meet vista's recommended specs for less than that lol but seriously now, why such a beast? |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
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