Poll: What do you use your Mac Pro for?

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What do you use your Mac Pro for?

  • Photography

    Votes: 4 28.6%

  • Audio

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Video

    Votes: 3 21.4%

  • Web Design

    Votes: 3 21.4%

  • Application Development

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Day To Day Normal Use

    Votes: 9 64.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • Total voters
    14

Deleted member 651465

Deleted member 651465

Hey all,

I'm going to be starting my own photography business in the near future and obviously would like to get a Mac Pro, which got me thinking.

I see a lot of people on the forums who have a Mac Pro but what do they use them for???

Now, in the past I've used Mac Pros to run recording studios and generally to code some apps for the iPhone in my spare time, so this is a whole new business venture and therefore a whole new use for mine.

What do you do with yours?
  • Photography
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Web Design
  • Application Development

If a passing mod could turn them in to a poll, i'm generally interested in finding out what the geeks of OcUK do with theirs.
 
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EVH said:
I'm going to be starting my own photography business in the near future and obviously would like to get a Mac Pro, which got me thinking.
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Obviously? Why obviously?

I'm really interested to know what you feel a Mac Pro would/could do for your photography that another computer wouldn't.
 
glitch said:
Obviously? Why obviously?

I'm really interested to know what you feel a Mac Pro would/could do for your photography that another computer wouldn't.
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I've had Mac Pros before, and I like using them.

It's in no way related to the business decision but as we are in the Mac forums I thought it would be obvious that I would like another as I enjoyed my previous experience. Plus I wouldn't want to muck about with a PC for my day job when I could spend more time editing and getting on with something productive.
 
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I just use it for my day to day stuff.

It's one of the fastest Macs you can buy, I like the expandability options as far as hard drives and monitors go and Apple's sort of lazy approach to updating components (i.e. graphics cards) means that I'm not constantly looking to upgrade and blow my money. The latter is something I had a bad habit of doing with my last PC.

So whilst it was an expensive layout, I've been very pleased with it. It plays the games I want it to and if I decide to eventually look into any highend software work, it'll cope then too.
 
I'm not flaming you, I'm genuinely interested in why you think a Mac would benefit your fledgling photography business.

I'm assuming here you're talking about a Mac Pro rather than a MacBook Pro so you'd be using a monitor of your choice?
 
I use mine to run lots of virtual machines in parallels/fusion. I tend to create largish environments to fiddle with clustering etc. I also use it for gaming.
 
It's an expensive toy. I use mine for everything anyone would use any computer for.
 
They are very well built workstations and competitive for the price as well by a long way.

I would use one if I did'nt need windows or games.

sid
 
i was about to buy one, then i suddenly realised it would be just an expensive toy for web browsing/music/video and got a MBP instead because i can lie in bed and use it, and the mac pro couldn't offer that!
 
BUSH said:
i was about to buy one, then i suddenly realised it would be just an expensive toy for web browsing/music/video and got a MBP instead because i can lie in bed and use it, and the mac pro couldn't offer that!
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That's very true, very true indeed.

(so I've got both ;))
 
It's my day to day workstation, running a few VMs, the odd bit of video editing and I use handbrake a lot :) But the reason we got a couple of them is for a small xgrid cluster with the xserve (which isn't an agent).
 
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