Mac pro thoughts...

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So, I've fallen deeply in love with Aperture on my macbook pro but it's pretty slow with editing photos really (and my macbook pro is top spec, 2GB RAM etc..)

Is there really no option in between this and the Mac pro, I mean I'd like it but 4 xeon cores seems overkill for editing my photos.

So essentially, is it worth it?

And how noisy is it?
 
Oh, and another one, as it's just SATA drives, there's nothing to stop me using the 2 74GB raptors i have lying around in it, is there??
 
do it! do it!

I have a Mac Pro (2.66GHZ / 1GB Ram) and its stunning!

For photos its awesome that's mainly what I use it for! And for the HDD raptor question, I don't see why not!

Rich
 
The Macpro is awesome for Aperture, with 1gb it does tend to slow down and use HDD swapfile if your Aperture Library is large. Ive today upped mine to 4gb and at the moment ive got 250mb free, that running Aperture (12000photo Library), PSCS2 (with 5 open photos) and Itunes playing in the background.. oh and a few Firefox windows and tabs open.

It was still very usable with 1gb, but, the HDD trashed a little bit at times.

As for Raptors, ive got a spare 37gb Raptor and I could fill that last HDD craddle, I could try sticking it in over the weekend, it would make a nice PSCS2 scratch disk.


As for noise, its silent besides the HDD... so now my machine is easily the most silent machine ive ever used, and its running Seti 24/7 so the CPUs are fullloaded and the fans dont even kick it, its amazing.
 
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The other option is probably the new iMacs? With the uprated graphics card and Core2Duo they will probably handle Aperture quite nicely.
 
Seems Intel will be dumping the FB memory designs as they can't get the power requirement down. So they're going back to their old memory designs..

Not a problem unless you have the server based Intel chips - which is what the Mac Pro seems to use..

So I'd expect a new Mac Pro with the new memory design support to be announced once Intel release the new chipsets..
 
Cheers guys, I appreciate the responses, I thought abotu the new 24" imac instead but even with a new core 2 duo and the 7600 I don't think it'll be a huge improvement over my macbook pro.

DreederOcUK - what graphics card did you go for? i'm interested in whether the 7300 would do the job with aperture or the ati upgrade would provide a performance benefit

I'm also interested to hear about fb-dimms being abandoned, it might be worth waiting if the price for a few gigs of ram is going to come down.
 
I got the 7300GT and aperture runs fine, my only issue with aperture was 1gb ram, for my large collection it struggled, now ive got 4gb installed its perfect.

Ive been playing Eve-online under Bootcamp/WinXp-pro and the 7300gt manages perfectly well, ive got a spare gb of Apples FBdimms that I took out of mine when I upgraded, they are on the MM.
 
DreederOcUK said:
I got the 7300GT and aperture runs fine, my only issue with aperture was 1gb ram, for my large collection it struggled, now ive got 4gb installed its perfect.

Ive been playing Eve-online under Bootcamp/WinXp-pro and the 7300gt manages perfectly well, ive got a spare gb of Apples FBdimms that I took out of mine when I upgraded, they are on the MM.
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Cool...*runs to mm*
 
NickK said:
Seems Intel will be dumping the FB memory designs as they can't get the power requirement down. So they're going back to their old memory designs.
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Have you got any further reading on this? I'm very interested. I thought Intel was making the switch to FB-DIMMS for many reasons, one of which is that it offers a serialized interface for the chipset and makes it possible to offer much greater density in both chips on the DIMMs and on the motherboard's traces. They were saying that they were able to reduce the number of traces going to each DIMM slot by two thirds.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Have you got any further reading on this? I'm very interested. I thought Intel was making the switch to FB-DIMMS for many reasons, one of which is that it offers a serialized interface for the chipset and makes it possible to offer much greater density in both chips on the DIMMs and on the motherboard's traces. They were saying that they were able to reduce the number of traces going to each DIMM slot by two thirds.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34220

not quite yet it turns out, looks like power requirements and extortionate cost is killing them
 
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