Quote: Originally Posted by Abbas Sure, the iMac is a great buy but I already have a 24" LCD monitor that I dont want to get rid of and I need a headless Mac thats more powerful…

Quote: Originally Posted by Dzokayi They practically have to introduce a Mac. The gap between the iMac and Mac Pro is just too wide. Yes. As long as Steve keeps this up we'…

Quote: Originally Posted by greenamp You're in luck. The new Mac Pro ships today. $2500 is way too much money for me to spend. I dont need four cores and I certainly dont ne…

Quote: Originally Posted by greenamp Get real. If you are complaining that a quad core 2.6 Xeon Mac Pro with 1gb ram, 256 GPU, 250gb hd for $2500 is too much hardware, then you …

Apple website now has info: http://www.apple.com/macpro/ (and apple store back up)

It's a quad core Woodcrest desktop with 1gb ram and a 256mb gpu for $2500 (most likely $2300 with edu discount). That is a great system for that price. This is an entirely new sys…

Quote: Originally Posted by wowway1 Nobody's arguing it's a good config for the price, it's just that it's TOO MUCH HARDWARE for average Joe user. Seriously, only real pros buy…

I think Greenamp has a point Lateralus - and I think that there's a difference between wanting all that power and needing all that power. If you need that oomph, then you'll pay th…

Quote: Originally Posted by greenamp Get real. If you are complaining that a quad core 2.6 Xeon Mac Pro with 1gb ram, 256 GPU, 250gb hd for $2500 is too much hardware, then you …

You guys all need to calm friggin down. There's a 2GHz model. 2499 is for a mid model. The exact same price it used to be. And BTW 2499 for a quad core machine with the extras th…

Quote: Originally Posted by thebunny Amen. It's ridiculous that there isn't a basic expandable Mac yet. iMac isn't it. I ain't buying the 256 MB main RAM freaking Xeon for $2500…

With the two downgrades available at the Apple Store, you're looking at a quad for less than $2200. Summary of the Mac Pro release: Cut the price of a quad by over $1000 Doubled t…

Since they are all BTO, how will someone be able to return it if Apple doesn't take returns on BTO systems?

Who said they don't do returns on BTO/CTO? I've done it several times...

Quote: Originally Posted by bernt Who said they don't do returns on BTO/CTO? I've done it several times... Huh? Apple has never taken returns on BTO/CTO units unless there …

Before any other people decide to make this a rant feast, let me quickly compare: Power Mac - $1999 • two 2.0 GHz G5 cores, 1x1GHz bus • 512 MB RAM • 160GB HDD • DL SD • GeForce 6…

Need help convincing myself I did the right thing, which I know I probably didn't in terms of value for money. But I'm rationalizing it thus... I did some calculations and the…

IF you bumped up the ram (above 2 GB), and the GPU to go along with those monster cpus, then you WILL be quite surprised at the 3D performance improvements.... if NOT, then you w…

Yes, good point, can never have enough RAM and a good GPU is a must for 3D, but for the CPU I was thinking more Final Cut than actual 3D interface manipulation (OpenGL etc). Rende…

my ideal quad xeon setup would be 19.000 euro's but i have 1000,00 to spend.

3Ghz is nice, but it should be a $400 upgrade (using Intel list prices), not $800. You can always upgrade the CPUs after AppleCare runs out, so I would have bought more RAM (but no…

I'll likely wait until the first Mac Pro speed bump, then pick up a quad 3.0GHz machine when they're the mid-range machine.

Quote: Originally Posted by michaelb Besides, 3.0 just feels so much faster than a mere 2.66. 2.66 is closer to the dual G5 2.5 I've got now. Yeah, I think it's worth the ext…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell 3Ghz is nice, but it should be a $400 upgrade (using Intel list prices), not $800. You can always upgrade the CPUs after AppleCare runs out, s…

Heh... it wouldn't surprise me if Apple dropped the 3.0 and introduced a 3.4 and a 2.8.