New Mac pro!!!

mkelly · Post by **mkelly** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:58 pm

monstrejumo wrote:
mkelly wrote:Why don't people start new threads with appropriate subject lines!

because I thought it was better to continue this topic, not to overload the general forum with little dumby questions...

I don't think my question was totally out of the topic, btw, because we are now talking about 2009 new mac pros..

If there's been new ones announced already then accept my apologies. A new thread would have been appropriate otherwise. You're probably raising false hopes all over the show!

My opinion - wait until MacWorld - if there's something announced then hold onto your money until it's released (then buy it on credit

). If there's nothing announced then buy an older one. MacWorld is at the start of Jan so it's not long to wait.

supamonsta · Post by **supamonsta** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:03 pm

I accept your apologies, things announced or not !!

I also accept criticism when it is constructive

Thanks for the tip, I'll wait january and see what happens. Just I hope my macbook's hd won't die so soon, I feel it is becoming lazy, slower... and my CPU is now a bit mini to manage what I ask him to do!

best regards

mkelly · Post by **mkelly** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:08 pm

monstrejumo wrote:Thanks for the tip, I'll wait january and see what happens. Just I hope my macbook's hd won't die so soon, I feel it is becoming lazy, slower... and my CPU is now a bit mini to manage what I ask him to do!

Consider a re-install of OS and apps - coming from a Windows background, nothing gives a speed up to an aging machine like a fresh OS install. Plus it gets rid of those apps you no longer use.

If you feel your HD is really going to gie then I believe the HDs in MacBooks are fairly easy to swap out. One piece of advice is to get yourself a Firewire or USB external drive, use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable backup of your system drive. Then you can just run off it for the time being by booting into it instead of your normal system drive.

supamonsta · Post by **supamonsta** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:19 pm

you're right, perhap's is it time to replace the HD!

thanks for the advice

best regards

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:04 am

the octacores are still glitchy with some hardware, including UAD cards and cost waaayyy too much relative to a comparable high end octacore PC. You expect to pay a 25-30% premium for mac computers, but when the premium leaps to 120%+ then they are just pricing themselves out of the market.

Apple should realize that if they either - a) manufacture a quad core Imac sub 1800 dollars, or b) release a ferking Mac Pro that does not run on ECC ram (costs about 5 times more, hence the puny amount of ram they include).

They should be able to put out an octacore with at least 4 GB of regular DDR for less than 2600 US dollars, including an imac type 20" display (as opposed to jack schitt display included in the cost). ** For 2600 you can get Dell octacores with (2) 500 GB drives, 8GB ram, 24" top resolution LCD and a better graphics card **. Apple would really make a killing if they did that, instead of making bespoke Ram versions costing 4k and upwards to get a reasonably well configured machine that had a display. No one doubts the quality of these beasts, but they are too expensive.