09.01.06
Soa Pro
Picked me up a Mac Pro last night. Was sick of switching cables between my Mac Book and my PC, so decided to combine them. Was also getting tired of taking my Mac Book to and from work every day. I was (un)hooking it four times a day. It also doesn’t have much RAM. So on big projects when I have all kinds of stuff open, like Illustrator, Photoshop, etc it got pretty bogged down. Then if I needed to run Parallels to get into Windows it would just destroy what little RAM was left. So I’m going to mostly use the Mac Book at work where I don’t use such heavy software. Eventually I’ll get me a work Mac of some sort and leave the laptop for just in house portability.
Anyhoo, there’s my justifications for getting it. I haven’t really been able to play with it too heavily. I ended up re-installing Mac OS X three times last night, so that ate up most of my time. I didn’t have a fire-wire cable so I couldn’t choose the handy option of copying my stuff from an existing Mac. And I kind of screwed things up trying to manually copy all my preferences and libraries over. It does seem really fast, even with your basic applications. Load times are significantly reduced and such. As it should be with Quad Xeon lovin’. I do need more RAM though if I’m going to be doing a lot with Parallels. The default config only gives you 1GB.
I haven’t busted it open yet, but will do so this weekend. Have some SATA drives in my old PC that I’m going to be throwing in there to give me a combined 550GB. Still leaving 250GB for Sosacms when I give him my PC. Which will be a very nice upgrade for him. It is still a great gaming rig. I’ve kept it up to date so I can play all the games with max graphics. If I could run Mac OS X on it natively, probably wouldn’t have bought a Mac Pro.
I’ll put some pictures up if I end up cracking it open this weekend. From what I’ve seen in screen shot and such, the interior is an amazing design.