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Sean_Reid
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I realize that a lot of the excitement today, quite understandably, comes from the new M8 announcements. But since I deal with new cameras and lenses all the time, my excitement today is about my Mac Pro that just arrived.
After I started using the MacBook Pro 17" (this one a different example which came with Leopard - long story) I realized that what I wanted to do was to go back to Macintosh entirely (last one was a Mac Plus!). So I ordered a Mac Pro 2.8 and the truck rolled up a little while ago. I bought the quad core because that's plenty of speed for me and the Mac Pro is expensive enough as is. Before this I had always built my own higher-end PCs and I could have done that again for nearly half the cost of the Mac (reusing my existing good quality cases, power supplies, drives, etc.). But, among other things, the fact that 32 bit XP or Vista can only address 4 GB RAM (a bit less actually), combined with the fact that 64 bit Windows doesn't work with many of the drivers I need for various things, really swung me towards Mac. I love that OS-X is and has been 64-bit.
"Other World Computing" is selling tested, Apple approved, lifetime guaranteed RAM and I bought two 2 GB sticks (with heat sinks) for $230.00. I'm just waiting for them to ship. I'll make do with 6 GB for now and go to 8 later on.
Anyway, I need to finish up this Canon G9 review before I start taking things apart, swapping drives, etc. but I'm struck by one thing I must comment on.
Apple's industrial design is beautiful.
The Mac Pro is the most beautiful desktop computer I have ever seen and the Macbook Pro is the most beautiful notebook I've ever seen. They're a joy for the eyes and the hands. Does this matter to function? Not exactly... But we're photographers and *our* world is intensely visual. Someone like myself spends a lot of time with computers and since I have to look at them for hours at a time, I like it when one is easy on the eyes.
Anyway, I'm just enjoying being an enthusiastic re-newbie in the Mac world.
Cheers,
Sean
After I started using the MacBook Pro 17" (this one a different example which came with Leopard - long story) I realized that what I wanted to do was to go back to Macintosh entirely (last one was a Mac Plus!). So I ordered a Mac Pro 2.8 and the truck rolled up a little while ago. I bought the quad core because that's plenty of speed for me and the Mac Pro is expensive enough as is. Before this I had always built my own higher-end PCs and I could have done that again for nearly half the cost of the Mac (reusing my existing good quality cases, power supplies, drives, etc.). But, among other things, the fact that 32 bit XP or Vista can only address 4 GB RAM (a bit less actually), combined with the fact that 64 bit Windows doesn't work with many of the drivers I need for various things, really swung me towards Mac. I love that OS-X is and has been 64-bit.
"Other World Computing" is selling tested, Apple approved, lifetime guaranteed RAM and I bought two 2 GB sticks (with heat sinks) for $230.00. I'm just waiting for them to ship. I'll make do with 6 GB for now and go to 8 later on.
Anyway, I need to finish up this Canon G9 review before I start taking things apart, swapping drives, etc. but I'm struck by one thing I must comment on.
Apple's industrial design is beautiful.
The Mac Pro is the most beautiful desktop computer I have ever seen and the Macbook Pro is the most beautiful notebook I've ever seen. They're a joy for the eyes and the hands. Does this matter to function? Not exactly... But we're photographers and *our* world is intensely visual. Someone like myself spends a lot of time with computers and since I have to look at them for hours at a time, I like it when one is easy on the eyes.
Anyway, I'm just enjoying being an enthusiastic re-newbie in the Mac world.
Cheers,
Sean