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Macintosh Sauce · Nov 30, 2006, 02:33 AM

My Mac Pro has finally shipped from Apple! Yesterday, it left Fullerton, CA and is currently on a flight to where I live. I will have it before 3:00 p.m. MST today - woohoo! I have been looking forward to this very much, since I have been without a Mac because I sold my Power Mac G4 (dual 1.25 GHz MD) on eBay about three months ago. Mac withdrawal symptoms...

I got the 3.00 GHz quad core Mac Pro with 1 GB RAM and 160 GB HD. This was a compromise so I could get the 3.00 GHz configuration. Within four months, I am going to add another 4 GB RAM from TransIntl or Crucial - more than likely the former though as I like their heatsinks much more.

Madrag · Nov 30, 2006, 09:36 AM

congrats!
I'm waiting for the 8Ghz

No really, lovelly machine, when my DP G5 2.0 becomes slow, I'll get one of those beasts!

Macintosh Sauce · Nov 30, 2006, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by Madrag

congrats!
I'm waiting for the 8Ghz

No really, lovelly machine, when my DP G5 2.0 becomes slow, I'll get one of those beasts!

LOL

Macintosh Sauce · Nov 30, 2006, 04:58 PM

I got my Mac Pro about two hours ago, and so far everything is going quite nicely. I am totally impressed with this new Macintosh, and it walks circles around my old Power Mac G4 (dual 1.25 GHz MDD).

The packing in the box is great too - styrofoam is wrapped around the entire computer to protect it. My box was a little banged up on the outside, but the inside of the box was fine. Worried there for a second... LOL

Also, I barely even hear the fans spinning. The sound that I do hear is when the HD is reading/writing. Otherwise, this computer is very quiet. My Power Mac G4 sounded like a lawn mower at times.

I'm quite happy with this purchase so far... I also got a new 21" ViewSonic CRT monitor - G225FB - to go with it. Sweet!

tkmd · Nov 30, 2006, 10:14 PM

congratulations - I really like mine too. Coming from laptops, it was such a pain to get to the insides and now its so easy. Oh and the speed, oh the speed and multitasking abilities.

Macintosh Sauce · Dec 1, 2006, 12:54 AM

The speed and graphics quality is what I have noticed. After installing most of my software and restarting a couple of times, I get to the Desktop in less than 20 seconds - impressive!

It feels weird having this very large Macintosh on one of my tables.

I also got my new iSight late this afternoon. Quite an eventful day I think.

The only bad news today is that Microsoft released Windows Vista today. LOL

mac128k-1984 · Dec 1, 2006, 06:15 AM

I've been very impressed with my MacPro and I don't even have enough memory in the beast. I need to go to 4 gigs but being poor is keeping me at 2. That said, while the swap files do grow and I get a lot of page outs running aperture and photoshop at the same time, its still very fast.