New Mac Pro appears to kick ass

[spamsk8r]

Originally posted by: kalster

Originally posted by: spamsk8r

Originally posted by: kalster
its just a matter of time before dell comes up with a cheaper machine/work station with similar specs , just buy that and load 64bit linux distro and you have equally good
workstation, performance wise. Sure it may not look as good but its a workstation, you are buying for performance no looks, the extra money that you would pay for the mac can
be used to configure the dell with a better video card.

Except for the fact that a Dell will never have OS X, nor would the hardware and software be as tightly integrated or as high quality as the Mac. I'm not a fanboy either, I run Windows, Linux, and OS X (and sometimes BeOS) and I just find OS X to be a much better platform for getting things done without fighting the OS. Plus many of the productivity apps (Photoshop, Garage Band, hundreds of others) are not available for Linux, and many aren't available for Windows either.

if you are using apps which are available only for OS X you dont have a choice. but besides that there is no compelling reason to buy an OS X based system. I am assuming that they are targetting this as a workstation. For end uses , ease of use of OS and things like that are important and I guess a selling point, that is not the case for workstations targetted at businesses.

Fair enough, but I guess it depends on your business. If I have the choice, I would much rather develop software or do musical composition on OS X, as I feel more at home using it and also because Apple and other third party companies have very extensive support. I don't know if you've ever been to a musical trade show (like NAMM) but almost all of the companies that are selling software (and hardware to go with it) are selling OS X based products (not necessarily exclusively, but often that is the case). Digital media creation (such as editing digital video) is also much easier on the Mac due to much of the same reasons. Now if you want to play games, or need to use a Windows based network (although the Mac can do it, I wouldn't want to set it up), or of course if you need MS only applications, then a Mac is obviously not going to be your cup of tea.

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: SampSon
I missed the whole Xeon processor part. I've always found Xeon processors to be nearly pointless unless utilized in servers.

The Woodcrest Xeon used in the Mac Pros is pretty much identical to the Core 2 Duos, with a little more FSB. The reason they went with them was because Core 2 Duos do not support SMP, while the Xeons do.

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: spamsk8r
Oh man I want one to set up as a recording studio *drool*

good luck with sound playback on the amazing built-in sound and speakers apple has

No studio uses the built-in/onboard sound on compuers anyway, numbnuts.

LOL.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: kalster
its just a matter of time before dell comes up with a cheaper machine/work station with similar specs , just buy that and load 64bit linux distro and you have equally good
workstation, performance wise. Sure it may not look as good but its a workstation, you are buying for performance not looks, the extra money that you would pay for the mac can
be used to configure the dell with a better video card.

Yeah, but any 64bit linux distro != OS X.