Mac Pro real world differences

dipper17

dipper17

dipper17

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Apple Mac Pro (Early 2008)
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8 Cores)

I am looking to buy a Mac Pro, but after reading Concorde's thread about his problems am thinking it may not be such a good idea to buy the latest version.

That being the case what do you Mac Pro users think are the real world differences between the spec above and the dual Nahelem i7 - both with 8gb of ram.

I will be using the machine for:

1...Autocad in Parallels
2...MS Office in Parallels
3...Photoshop CS4 in OSX
4...Lightroom 2 in OSX
5...Flight Simulator with lots of addons in Parallels
6...Normal surfing, watching DVD's etc and viewing PDF (techincal)
7...Listening to music whilst working

I am not interested in benchmarks, just what you experienced users think the realworld differnece might be.

I am doing all of the above on a MBP latest unibody 13.3" version with 2mb of memory and have no problems providing I don't have too many pplications open at the same time.

What do you think?

Dipper
 
Thanks for the replies. The Version of Photoshop and Lightroom I've got are for the MAC as I use them on my MacBook Pro. That was the reason I was looking at a MacPro.

I guessed that there would not be a great difference. I did think about an iMac as well but I come from a PC background so don't like to lose the ability to put new bits into the machine if I want to.

So I could use a Dell workstation and use vmWare to run OSX in - that is flip the whole idea the other way round! Nice thought and cheaper no doubt;)

Thanks for the replies

Cheers

Dipper
 
Hi all

Yes, I agree. To get the same spec Dell or HP I am talking about the same price effectively as a MacPro.

I think you can run OSX in vmWare but I think it is difficult and does take a lot of messing around with to get working - so I would rather not have to do that.

So I'm back to my first issues which seems to me that I can probably get a well speced MacPro 2008 edition with plenty of ram - run PS and LR in OSX, Office and Autocad in Parallels and Flight sim in boot camp. The rest on the toaster!:D

This seems like a plan as I much prefer my MBP than any PC I've ever used.

Any more thought from anyone would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Dipper
 
Hi all

Well I took the plunge and have got a 2008 model with dual 2.8 Xeons, 10gb of RAM and Applecare, so should be flying in a few days time. Thanks for you advice.

Cheers

Dipper17
 
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