Mac pro migration?

Darryn

Darryn

Darryn

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Im looking at buying a full new rig and im thinking about going the MacPro route.... ive not used a mac for many years so ive got some questions.

Im off to have a look at them tomorrow, but I fully expect the staff to lie to me as they are trying to sell it to me.


Will it work with my existing wired network, as in will I be able to setup shared drives on it, and assess the shared drives on my other pcs from it?

Upgrades, I will I be able to buy ram and HDD upgrades from OcUK rather then paying the stupidly high Apple prices?

What the hell is bootcamp?

Why are they so damn cheap for a quad core based computer?

Sorry if this exact thread has been posted before, but ive searched and cannot see any of the questions answered.
 
Thanks for the answers,

The specific Apple HDD is an issue for me £270 for £170 worth of 500gb HD, I need a lot of storage and already have 3.4tb of network attached HDD storage space, I just need confirmation about the shared network drives, if I can keep using my current HDDs and simply using the mac internal drives for OS, apps and scratch disk id be happy.


Edit.... thanks firebar, thats just the information I was looking for... woohoo.... looks like I best take my wallet with me tomorrow.
 
Thanks for the help guys, the Apple guys were really helpful and even carried the box out to the car for me, im typing this on my new toy. :D

2.66ghz / 1gb / 250gb / 7300gt

Its beautiful, Ill be getting 4gb of Crucial FBDimm in the next few days and a couple of 500gb SATAII drives from OcUK.

I also bought Photoshop CS2 and Aperture. Now I just need to learn how to use this thing, it took me 15minutes to find how to open the CD drawer. :eek:
 
Cheers for the advice, ive now bought 3x 500gb SATAII drives and XP-pro SP2 to run under bootcamp.

One thing that has annoyed me, but, its my own fault, is that Photoshop CS2 is running under ppc emulation, so im not really getting the best out of it, it appears id have been better of buying a Windows release of CS2 and using that under XP. No doubt when Adobe release a MacIntel version it will cost me an arm and a leg to upgrade. :(
 
Crucial seem to have relisted there MacPro ram again, ive currently got 1gb (2x 512mb) and I want 4gb total, I believe from what ive read im best having 4 stick of 1gb each and selling off my original 1gb, as the FB-Dimms work best in matched pairs and optimum with 4 sticks.

Can anyone confirm this before I buy? thanks. OSX rocks, btw.
 
Ive not noticed any HD performance issues under XP, that said, ive not used XP much at all and im thinking about removing the XP partition (30gb) as ive not actually found anything I cannot do in OSX that I can in XP.
 
I did used to play PS, but, I havent been playing anything for a while. Also with just a 7300GT im not really in a position to play any 3d type games.
 
I bought Aperture as an impulse buy whilst waiting in the Apple shop, ive not noticed any RAW conversion issues but I havent used it much yet, Ive tried the Lightroom beta under Windows XP and didnt like it, but as its free (as I bought RSP) I will get it another try.
 
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