Mac Pro - 4 or 8 Cores

[crazyswede]

I am very close to switching to a Mac, very close....

I am going to, if I do , aim for a Mac Pro to go alongside my 24" Dell Monitor. I will not be using it for video creating, but I will be using it for graphics, websites and photos (I am not a professional). I will also use it for writting my movie scripts (Software is already PC/Mac compatible) which needs 1/2 a core. From what I have read 8 cores is not really utilised that much and will not be probably for a long time. I would get it with the 8800GT of course.

So what I am thinking is, that I be better off going for a 4 core mac pro which will save me £350. With the money saved I can later buy crucial ram when it released.

I just want to know if I am making a mistake not getting 8 cores. It's a shame that they don't sell it with a 4 core at 3ghz or 3.2Ghz.

 

[crazyswede]

I am going to sell my pc to work so I will get money from that. The thing is that I can afford the £350... but then again I could put it towards the adobe web premium. I think I can survive on 4 cores, but 8 cores may be a good for future proofing as everything is moving towards more cores. I got about 4 weeks to think about it.

 

[crazyswede]

crazyswede, you have used OS X before right? Cos the transition from Windows to OS X can be quite daunting, and £1700+ is a lot of cash for a OS you might not get on with?

Edit - After posting that, I decided that it don;t matter too much I suppose, you could always use boot camp and use your Pro as a PC if you realyl didn;t get on with OS X.

My parents first ever computer was a mac. It was a Apple LC with MacOS 6 or maybe 7 and I think that was about 15 years ago. After that it was just Window PCs. My parents now have a iMAC 24" and I had a play with it and liked it. My little brother has always had macs. Anyway OS X can't be worse than Vista. I will install XP for games and other windows software.

I realise that it is a big step and a lot of money and I will therefore really think about it.