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Mac Pro needs improvement
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Creative professionals is not a minority?
I'd like to see better cooling and some more solid engineering inside while keeping the eye candy.
...My Mac Pro runs nearly silently and cool all the time. How much better can the cooling get?
...My Mac Pro runs nearly silently and cool all the time. How much better can the cooling get?
Depends on where you use it and what you use it for. I believe I discussed a similar thing with someone else before who got upset and decided to send me a rather questionable PM instead, but like the Macbook Pro, if you use the power that the hardware is capable of in a less than benign environment the Pros have (once again, like it's portable brother) a habit of jacking it in well before other machines even based on essentially the same motherboard.
If you're going to use it like... oh I don't know, an iMac, I'm sure it'll be stable and cool and silent. Most other machines are too these days.
Also, its rather galling that the crappy looking plastic carriers on a Dell Precision can outperform the drive carriers on the Pro in terms of being able to hang onto the drives properly, an issue particularly with very high-performance drives.
improvements are greately needed
graphic cards and the 512 mbyts ram card should be standard configuration
also apple should also start offering a 1TB drive because hitachi has made one for the mac pro
also mabey SAS/SCSI interfaces for higher performance drives
also blue ray support
also cheaper RAM and HD prices
and also mabey the 3 Ghz quad or a lower speed octal core for default configuration
i am really hoping the mac pro gets its upgrade by WWDC because i am buying one in june.
graphic cards and the 512 mbyts ram card should be standard configuration
also apple should also start offering a 1TB drive because hitachi has made one for the mac pro
also mabey SAS/SCSI interfaces for higher performance drives
also blue ray support
also cheaper RAM and HD prices
and also mabey the 3 Ghz quad or a lower speed octal core for default configuration
i am really hoping the mac pro gets its upgrade by WWDC because i am buying one in june.
Doesn't the cooling ramp up, like on the PowerMac G5? The heavier the load the faster than fans go.
I didn't see anything wrong with the insides. There isn't much to the drive carriers, but they do what they need to and allow for cooling.
Things can always been improved, but the Mac Pro case is a definite improvement over the PowerMac G5.
I want a smaller case and more space inside to stuff stuff.
Anyways:
I want an 8800 in there
move off the fully buffered memory to something faster and cheaper or at least give the option. 8 cores are bottlenecking at the memory level.
thats about it.
Anyways:
I want an 8800 in there
move off the fully buffered memory to something faster and cheaper or at least give the option. 8 cores are bottlenecking at the memory level.
thats about it.
Plenty of people don't need anything more than the 7300GT, the majority of buyers I'd wager.
I'm sure they will when the Pro gets revised and the drive has been in the wild for a while, and they can get enough to meet demand.
SAS definatly.
Similar to the 1TB drives.
Apple's prices, just like all the other vendors, are going to always be on the pricey side for such components, consumers don't need to buy from them so it shouldn't really be an issue for most people. They are very simple to install yourself.
When pricing allows it I'm sure they will, Xeon chips haven't dropped in price since before the Mac Pro was released.
Unless Apple can get a deal with Intel I don't see them shipping before the Intel price drops rumoured for July.
If SAS support is offered they definitely need to work on the drive carriers, and probably the base - as well as more damping on the case. The 130Gb 15K SAS drives I use on the Dell Precisions are very noticeably more vibration and noise prone than 7.2/10K drives. Who knows, maybe it's one of the reasons they decided not to make it an option on the Pro.
Noise bothers me a lot at home and while the aforesaid crappy looking drive carriers on the Dell did a better job than the Pro carriers of containing rattling and the case did a decent job at containing internal resonance, on my hard floor at home it passed the head movement (?) vibration down to the floorboard. In the end I needed to use an audiophile isolation product to suspend the Dell away from the floor.
Noise bothers me a lot at home and while the aforesaid crappy looking drive carriers on the Dell did a better job than the Pro carriers of containing rattling and the case did a decent job at containing internal resonance, on my hard floor at home it passed the head movement (?) vibration down to the floorboard. In the end I needed to use an audiophile isolation product to suspend the Dell away from the floor.
I just want it to support more Graphic Card, such as buy a PC Graphic Card and it will work with the Mac Pro. This would be the biggest issue with the current Mac Pro right now. I can't go out and grab another Graphic Card if the one in my Mac Pro died. Not to mention it's so damn expensive with the same spec as the retail PC version one. I'm drooling over the NVidia 8800 GTX! The Mac Pro is fine right now, nice quiet case design. I just think it's a bit too heavy and bulky at the moment is the only flaws. And I agree, cheaper Ram price. There is alternative aftermarket one, but it's hard to choose one because there is so many. Not all Ram is the same.
I don't think it got anything to do with whining, it's just different opinions and suggestion. People pay a lot for the high end Mac Pro and they want the very best out of it. It's just human nature though, nothing is perfect.
I find it sad my bargain gaming PC has a 7300gt. I honestly think stock Mac Pros should come with a better card.
RAM prices from any vendor in regards to the Mac Pro are pricey in all aspects. However, Apple does gouge you for HD/RAM upgrades most of the time, like on the consumer machines. You could honestly get the HDD upgrades from Apple for the same price as you can go get one on Newegg, pay the same price if not cheaper, and keep the old drive. Or, go with more RAM for the same price.
That sounds more like user error. Sorry if I'm offending you, but it certainly is not all the same, and only certain types of RAM work with the Mac Pro, and anyone who bothers to read the tech specs on the Mac Pro can figure it out and go buy all the appropriate RAM they need from any vendor they want. It's really not rocket science or a crapshoot. You get what you want, what you need.
You should be knacking at Intel for not releasing a workstation motherboard that does not require Fully-Buffered DIMMs and not Apple Inc.
Intel makes the hardware, Apple doesn't.
It is still probably the world fastest personal computer.
The Dell Precisions are a faster system overall, with support for SAS, better display adapter choice, yada yada. Same with the equivalents from HP, Fujitsu Siemens, etc etc. Once everyone else gets 3Ghz Octos it'll actually be the slowest system of it's class out there.
Apparently not enough.
Try building a multi processor workstation using parts you cobbled together from Newegg someday. The Mac Pro is very price competitive.
Well, truth be told I'd pay more for the handbuilt Newegg machine over a Mac Pro if it could legally and easily run Mac OS X. I am not forced into getting or paying extra for something I absolutely do not want. (read: Apple, sell your Mac Pros without RAM or hard drives or for that matter, anything that I can buy off Newegg. Please.)
I like choosing the components that go into my computers. I make an exception for Apple cause the laptops are good and I like OSX. But if the OS-appeal wasn't there...there is no way in hell I'd be paying for a desktop like that if there wasn't a good reason for doing so (e.g. massive discounts, special use).
That's not what I mean at all. People who own the Mac Pro already know what Ram to get. The problem is you're buying an 3rd After market Ram. How you know the vendors you buy from is trust worthy? How you know the Ram will not died out on you or give you problem? I see many competitor trying to come up with all different kind of heat sink to match with the one on Apple Website. I find this very confusing and steer me in all different kind of direction because of so many heat sink, it's hard to find one that is best and work. Personally, when I want to upgrade my Ram I want it to be as easy and worry free as possible. This is not the case with the Mac Pro. If Apple make their Ram cheaper on their website, it would make it an easier decision for the customer owning the Mac Pro.
Not really. I still think it's cheaper if you build your own Computer. Computer parts and processors is not that expensive anymore. You just need to know where to shop. The Mac Pro come with a crappy Graphic Card, upgrading to ATI X1900 making the machine already at 3K. Adding more Ram easily make it even more expensive. I think I can build a better computer with 3K then the Mac Pro.
Uhh. It's exactly the same as the rest of the market - caveat emptor. In fact, I'm pretty sure some of the vendors are selling exactly the same thing Apple puts in the Mac Pro and sells as upgrades.
Meanwhile, a quick look at newegg shows a lot of good companies that sell RAM for the Mac Pro... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...1052121731+1052408745&name=DDR2+667+(PC2+5300)
Anyway, to prove my point about Apple overcharging on RAM upgrades..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134086 is decent, except for having to deal with the heatsink issue, which I wouldn't mind calling "nearly trivial".
a 2gb stick is $218, $223 after shipping. 223 times 4 is $892, let's bump that up to $1000 just cause of the time and effort it takes to do an upgrade.
That is still vastly cheaper than Apple's 8gb 4x2gb option for an additional $2099, and you don't get to keep the old RAM if you go the Apple route (although, what you would do with 2x512mb nearly useless fbdimms is beyond me)