Tungsten FORD GT rear image

[AtomicGT]

Just bought a $16K (actually $15,700.00) MacPro Desktop, 8 core Xeon processors, with 4 separate terabyte HDs, 4 different operating systems, dual NVIDA 1.5 gig video cards and a 30 inch HD monitor. This is my background screen image on an HD 30 inch monitor and there is no room for anything else. This image is cropped from my HD screen. It does not do it justice to see it on anything else but the monitor I have. Amazing, gets the testosterone levels racing, I can see it perfectly from two rooms away!!!

Thought I would place it here for viewing enjoyment. Converting to Mac is like changing religions, but seems to be an excellent system.

 

[shelbyelite]

$16,000 dollars for a computer? Good lord. What are you doing with that thing. Nuclear science??? :confused

 

[cobrajeff]

Nice shot!

I've been giving some thought to a Mac myself. I've always been a "PC" guy, but I'm so frustrated with Vista that I will seriously look at a Mac next time. My new HP laptop came with Vista, and I hated it from day one. I copied 3,000 pictures from my desktop computer to the new laptop. All of the pictures were labeled (many with VIN numbers). Vista decided to rename every one of the pictures, 0001 thru 3000 - so the names, tags, and VIN numbers that I had were all lost (on the new computer) - they were useless without the original names and numbers.

I gave Vista a fair shot - after one year, I took the new laptop in and had it "downgraded" to Windows XP - it's a much more efficient machine now.

Jeff

 

[AtomicGT]

Cobrajeff,

I have been a PC man sine the 80s. Macheads were always somewhere around, but only about 8% of the computer population. Apple makes good stuff, but it is like an Italian restaurant, everything item is ala carte, and way overpriced! I never upgraded to Vista. Keep my XP for 3 years on a VooDoo Gaming PC. But the amount of hassles I ws having with Windows, just pissed me off. I have everything on this new MacPro and it runs Vista, XP, OS10 Leopard, Linux, Unix, anything. So I have Mac on 1st drive, Vista on the 2nd and XP on the third. With 8 core Xeon processors, it smokes. I am still using a lot of Windows software, especially with DVD coping and burning. Mac stuff just for this isn't there, but doing things in Video or Imaging Mac, ROCKS. Use them both when yo get a new Laptop.

My Vista experience with the MacPro has been great, I likle the interface, it runs everything I have for XP, and allows 16 Gig RAM which is what I have on the machine.

Computer Heaven, at least for a few months.

 

[B O N Y]

Mac pro 17 powerbook works for me
Been a Mac user for almost 20 years.

 

[SYCO GT]

I'm a big Mac user. My brother was a third party developer for Mac software and my dad is a retired Commercial artist. We've had the Apple II, Mac SE's, etc. from back in the day. The heavy square Mac that you would carry around in college in a huge fabric bag. Actually had a typewriter freshman year. Anyhoo, I finally converted my wife to an iMac and I use a G5 Tower.

Of course, I am at the office typing on a Dell PC Tower, and I also use a Lenovo Thinkpad for work. Ah, but what I could do on a Mac. I covet the new powerbooks...

A great resource for Mac education is that for $99 year, you can get a one on one membership and get one hour of "tutoring" on any topic at a Mac Store. My wife has gone 3 times and I have gone 2 times. Some people go every week, which would be like $2 a session. Most private trainers would charge more than $99 for a single hour.

I had questions about website design, Aperture 2.0, and Time Machine. Seriously, check it out at your local store.

 

[SYCO GT]

I gave Vista a fair shot - after one year, I took the new laptop in and had it "downgraded" to Windows XP - it's a much more efficient machine now.

Several months ago we ordered a few Optiplex 330's for a new office before Vista was required, as some of the programs management needs to run, do not like Vista.

Going home now, woohoo!

 

[MK2_GT]

I prefer Windows based PCs but more power to you! Although I can't stand Vista and still run XP pro.

 

[AtomicGT]

get a MacPro 8 core Xeon machine with 3 HDs and put any operating system you want all on one machine. Works great, amazingly great.