Re: New Mac Pros are out

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:55:06 -0500, "Mike Hall - MVP"
<mikehall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

But you are not yet in possession of the worlds most expensive XP machine. A
top of the line Mac Pro will set you back $27,000 (twenty seven thousand).

I suppose there are some reasons for people to spend that kind of
money for high end development. The computers people used to use in
places like Pixar used to be quite a bit more expensive, but things
are getting cheaper.

I bet one could spend that much for non Apple Windows machines. Of
course the article I read with someone configuring that expensive
machine, it included stuff like unlimited OS-X server licenses, two
huge monitors, 32 G Ram, etc. At this moment, Apple RAM is
overpriced as are their stand-alone monitors. But I have a monitor,
and won't get memory upgrades from Apple. That included video card
is also tremendous overkill - designed for high-end professional video
needs. I'll let the professionals decide where to buy their
hardware. There is something to be said for buying such a machine
that will run Windows.

I would spend 1/10 of that which isn't that different from a similarly
powered Sony.

And some complain at having to spend $80 getting a video card that will
enable Aero in Vista???

Some do, some don't. If/when I upgrade to Vista, it's nice to know
I'll have the hardware to run it.

I needed to upgrade my computer anyway, I have two inadequate clones
with 3 copies of XP pro, one copy of XP home. They are upgrades,
which means I can't install them in Boot Manager (The installation
procedure doesn't let me show my previous Windows, and won't work if
my XP isn't service pack 2 or later), but I can install them in
Parallels by showing the installation my W95 non-upgrade disk.

It will be interesting running Windows in a VM.
.

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