New Mac: Overkill
 

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

Read the specs. Holy shit. That must be some seriously killer hardware.

I wish I could afford it. Lol.

Oh well... for now I would rather get my team a couple of dual-core intel iMacs :pimp

they using intel chip.... i will go for PC....

Oh shit yeah!1!

that looks pretty fucking good :thumbsup

whats the price.. the store won't load for me :(

2500 with a 1 gig of of ram and a 250 gig serial drive. for that much I could build a omg pc

configured to my specs...

Subtotal Please note that your subtotal does not include sales tax or rebates. $16,834.00

Find out how to get your order for $398.00 per month with an Apple Credit Account.


hah.

ouch, ok thats a little insane.

wow looks impressive

Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors

4MB shared L2 cache per processor

1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses

1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory

250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1

16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVDhahaha177;RW/CD-RW)

$2,499.00

Only thing overkill is the price

Looks like mine.... on the outside!

Hmm, is it really extraordinary specs? Personally I prever AMD64 X2 instead of Intel Dual-Core.

I think I may buy it, just because I adore MacOSX.

so it's basically a pc.

Get over it mac addicts. It's no better than a clone.

nice

Mr. Romance

haha, I don't think you need 16 gigs of ram. :winkwink:

As powerful as the laptops are now a days I don't see the need to go for this one unless you are doing some extreme Video High Def editing as your primary job.

sure i do...
lol

i only got 4 now..

lmao, soon all mac will have going for it is a shiny case. Looking more and more like a PC everyday. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Sorry guys, I'm a PC user too, but there's no PC right now that can have 16GB of RAM, and 2 dual-core xeon woodcrest's. (2 dual core 64-bit processors).

You get what you paid for, simple as that. Although the price really is overkill though. Apparently Dell has something similar in spec, but sells for $900 more.

However, if you get one of these and aren't into some serious video production work, then you're literally just pissing away your money. This thing is way too powerful for 99% of the work out there.

It's just impressive. That's all there is to it.

Oh, and Leopard looks great. An OS that fully utilizes multiple cores, and can run both 32 and 64-bit applications natively, without any software/hardware changes.

Fully specced macpro = overkill

Mac leopard OS = kick ass

Idiot PC users that never spent more than 5 minutes on OS X and talk like they actually know anything about a Mac just by looking at the pictures.

Oh, it's a grey box, more like a PC every day. Retards.

looking good, a bit overpriced though:disgust

I have both WinXP and MacOSX Tiger on a same PC (AMD64X2). Can't say I prefer to work under MacOSX however...

That thing is a fucking beast! I LOVE it!!!

I'm ordering two :frenchman

Here's that price thing I was talking about...

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5773/dsc0435bu2.jpg

Funny how mac used to be held with such regard to stability and speed, now they're running a regular ass pc architecture. I believe this system is totally weak, anyone willing to buy one to benchmark it against my pc?

Dualcore Dual Opterons
16gb ddr 400
Nvidia Quadro FX4000 or BFG 7950
Fibre Channel Harddrives + PCIX FBCHN Controller

:) my thing is a fucking beast, You'll LOVE it

nice sig :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

they really price themselves out of the market.

Cool. What's the OS though? Can it actually USE your dualcore opterons? ;)

If it's Window's or Linux, it can't. You're only getting 60% of your dualcore's power. ;)

I'm not a mac lover, but their OS is definitely praise worthy.

AAK: Cheers mate. I just got annoyed because my sig disappeared. Lol.

bvds: What market? the casual consumer market? This thing definitely isn't for regular consumers. See the photo I posted. That's the price of the base mac vs a base dell of similar spec.

Yes. I know, you can buy parts of a PC and spec it up to. It's the same banana with the macpro. My mate owns a powermac and bought it base spec, then bought all the other upgrades (HDD, RAM, etc.) on newegg.com and other similar sites, and saved a bundle.

Except that unlike a PC, he's got a kick-ass OS.

It's the same deal with PC's. If you buy from a company, you'll get a price with the company's profit margin on it, plus assembly costs.

Hmmm, that's weird, cuz it's $1K cheaper than the competing PC... idiots, you all are depleting our Ozone by talking out your asses so damn much.

Expensive computers aren't for everyone. They are only for those who can afford them.

the look is great. Very stylish.

I build my own so I get a lot of bang for my buck.

yeah but microsoft sucks :P

You do realize macos is built off the freebsd kernel. Righttt? freebsd ftw.

i will have Mac wet dreams tonight.

there goes powerpc for good

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh
Where the hell do you get your info from?

There's no such thing as too much computer, unless you count the Terminator movies and the Matrix