Mac Pro - Should I ?

tsinc80697 said:
haha gwon oli you know you want to! :P
I cant decide whether to sell my MBP and get a netbook or not! Feel like Im wasting the mbp's power just sat here being used for an hour a day lol
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Personally I'd do that, or pick up a cheap 2nd hand MacBook, one of the older white plastic ones.

Just been playing with the Apple config thing on the site, the prices get very scary very quickly !
 
ha nah its a 1TB drive :D £77 delivered at 9am this morning when I ordered it yesterday at 3pm, not bad!

Yeah Oli I want a netbook for size and portability, Im only gonna use it for watching US tv shows and internet or a night in the lounge/bed. But it means linux or windows :/ So thats putting me off!

Might sell my MBP and get either new white macbook, so I have 3 year warranty for no price difference really, or get 2nd hand one for £400-450 aslong as it has warranty! Dont have MM access anymore which sucks :( Have to go get ripped off on another forum/auction website !
 
tsinc80697 said:
ha nah its a 1TB drive :D £77 delivered at 9am this morning when I ordered it yesterday at 3pm, not bad!

Yeah Oli I want a netbook for size and portability, Im only gonna use it for watching US tv shows and internet or a night in the lounge/bed. But it means linux or windows :/ So thats putting me off!

Might sell my MBP and get either new white macbook, so I have 3 year warranty for no price difference really, or get 2nd hand one for £400-450 aslong as it has warranty! Dont have MM access anymore which sucks :( Have to go get ripped off on another forum/auction website !
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I gave up my MM access long ago, was costing me a fortune !

I was really hoping Apple were going to give us a netbook type effort but I'm happy with my new Macbook :D
 
Oh forgot to ask, whats everyone using, VM Ware of Parallels ?

I was using Parallels but my audio went after a few weeks and couldnt be bothered reinstalling
 
I use Virtualbox personaly. It's free, light, and it runs my Kubuntu install in the VM directly from the hard drive it's installed on : that allows me to still boot Kubuntu natively if I want.

@tsinc, mine is 2*4*2.8, 8800, 2GB and the default 320. I already have 3 of the Spinpoint 1TB :D

Unfortunately, still no extra memory :/ Crucial is still out of them !
 
Email my trust email, I might be able to help you out :)

Tried Virtualbox, doesnt support 64bit OS? Only got Vista 64 so hopefully VMWare does otherwise Ill have to go grab a 32bit Vista :/
 
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tsinc80697 said:
Tried Virtualbox, doesnt support 64bit OS? Only got Vista 64 so hopefully VMWare does otherwise Ill have to go grab a 32bit Vista :/
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Installing Vista (or XP for that matter) on a Mac Pro is like dating a beautiful woman and making her wear a David Cameron mask.

Apart from gaming (and that really isn't what the MP is designed for) why would you want to do this?
 
I'm considering a MP. Although it's not my top priority and certainly not before the refresh for better memory bandwidth and the release of SL with it's OpenCL. The MBP is doing mightily well in the meantime.

What I may do is to save up some explicitly for it. The current version of the MP I'd be interested is about 3K (the 3.2QC then get 16GB memory elsewhere). So I'd expect the next version of it will be the same. However I've not had the chance to do any work on the project that would require this.. hence until the point that project gets advanced enough (and my old X2-4400 gets outdated) the 4GB MBP will do.. I'll probably go down the Dev route at that point too - I'm already a basic dev anyway..
 
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LordSplodge said:
Installing Vista (or XP for that matter) on a Mac Pro is like dating a beautiful woman and making her wear a David Cameron mask.

Apart from gaming (and that really isn't what the MP is designed for) why would you want to do this?
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Its easier to install windows to test safari/ff/ie6/7/8 than to use browsershots.org all the time and have to wait :)

Also for playing the very odd game when I get time, about once a month at the current rate! Also there isnt a sopcast for mac yet so I need that for streaming :)
I dislike windows as much as the next user, but it makes my life easier having a vm
 
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"Out For Delivery" TNT says. Whoot !

Now lets hope it rains all week-end ! :D

I found some cheap RAM. In fact a hell of a lot cheaper than Crucial -- I hope it's not dodgy!
 
can you raid without that £500 mac pro raid card? or are there other cheaper raid cards
: o )
 
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