My only recommendation would be to get a full-sized keyboard with the num pad. And possibly more RAM. Other than that though, great setup!
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If u bothered to check my profile you would see ive listed it....
Who brags about MBA u grrrronk! Jealousy is a b*tch!
12Gb won't be enough, if I get through that doing bog standard coding, 3D CAD work and general VMWareness then I don't think you really thought this through properly.
If I use 12Gb on my Quad 2.66, you will need three times that minimum on a machine that has three times as many cores as well as 25% more clock speed...
And you shouldn't have got the SSDs from Apple either, there are better SSDs out there.
I would say you could have saved some money on buying non-Apple RAM and SSDs but I don't really think that is an issue to you, although seem's rather wasteful tbh.
If I use 12Gb on my Quad 2.66, you will need three times that minimum on a machine that has three times as many cores as well as 25% more clock speed...
And you shouldn't have got the SSDs from Apple either, there are better SSDs out there.
I would say you could have saved some money on buying non-Apple RAM and SSDs but I don't really think that is an issue to you, although seem's rather wasteful tbh.
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You guys are forgetting that Aussie's are nuts... I would know 
But yes... get more RAM... get 32GB's (4x8GB) for $848 from Transintl... < $1000 so no GST (oh... how topical!)... Then, if you need to, buy another 32GB's for a much more insane machine
But yes... get more RAM... get 32GB's (4x8GB) for $848 from Transintl... < $1000 so no GST (oh... how topical!)... Then, if you need to, buy another 32GB's for a much more insane machine
You guys are forgetting that Aussie's are nuts... I would know
But yes... get more RAM... get 32GB's (4x8GB) for $848 from Transintl... < $1000 so no GST (oh... how topical!)... Then, if you need to, buy another 32GB's for a much more insane machine
finally some constructive feedback!!
I agree about the memory - more is def better. 32GB for $1000 seems pretty good and they seem pretty easy to install as well.
To be completley honest i wasnt gonna buy the SSDs i was gonna go straight 2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive - i got a really good deal on the SSDs cause i was getting the 12 core. The Mac rep insisted on them.
It's more than just "pretty good".... There might be slightly better local places, but my general benchmark is Macfixit.. $1600 for 4x8GB sticks...
And yes, very easy to install.. takes little to no effort (unless you've got butterfingers
)My Bad, just a suggestion ... yeah, on second thoughts I think I heard that SSDs deteriorate pretty fast in raid configurations.
The machine's fast enough anways...
Well done on the purchase - could we get some cinebench render times/Scores?
1) Congratulations. I'm glad you have a job that can use that much 'juice', but even if you didn't, and just wanted a kick-a** machine.... so what. I'm jealous - and happy for you.
2) Yeah, that desk and chair gotta go. Do you have a link to the furniture you ordered?
3) Seriously. Do you have that rig on a UPS (battery back-up)? UPS's are just for power outages, but mostly to smooth out the peaks and valleys. One good brown-out during a critical file save could mess things up. Plus, when a brown-out recovers, it sends a short spike.
4) An air conditioner. I'm sure as you start pushing it, it's going to start heating up the place. Watch out for warp-core breaches!
2) Yeah, that desk and chair gotta go. Do you have a link to the furniture you ordered?
3) Seriously. Do you have that rig on a UPS (battery back-up)? UPS's are just for power outages, but mostly to smooth out the peaks and valleys. One good brown-out during a critical file save could mess things up. Plus, when a brown-out recovers, it sends a short spike.
4) An air conditioner. I'm sure as you start pushing it, it's going to start heating up the place. Watch out for warp-core breaches!
Congrat's!!
I can't believe someone was saying you're lying because of the three monitors. I've worked in video for over ten years now and even back when I started some guys were using multiple monitors. I find three monitors to be conservative now, depending on how many windows/palettes you need open at any given time.
I'm envious of that new-Mac rush you're experiencing right now! But I'm loving my Hex, so I'm not feeling too bad.
I can't believe someone was saying you're lying because of the three monitors. I've worked in video for over ten years now and even back when I started some guys were using multiple monitors. I find three monitors to be conservative now, depending on how many windows/palettes you need open at any given time.
I'm envious of that new-Mac rush you're experiencing right now! But I'm loving my Hex, so I'm not feeling too bad.
Akayz: you should consider painting your workspace in neutral gray. (18%) and calibrate your monitors, and get proper lighting. When doing photo´s its very important that the monitors doesn't reflect colors and light. You are doing video but i guess its about the same.
Yeah, the response in this thread has been absurd. It's not as if you said "Facebook, email and organizing photos".
I agree, you need a better desk and chair. If for no other reason than I'd be afraid my leg would twitch and drag your expensive displays off into oblivion.
Having been on the selling end of something like this back in the day, I can say definitively that it's very, very fun.
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Nice one. However, I would have bought the SSDs after market. Apple's neither are the quickest, the cheapest, nor have the newest SandForce chip (afik) for garbage collection. Have to say, I would have spend the resulting difference on more RAM then.
Also, why no RAID via fibre channel?
Enjoy!
Also, why no RAID via fibre channel?
Enjoy!
Cinebench 11.5 score
Exactly!
ive got a mate who is running 6!!!!
I prob should warn him not to post it on here....
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He'll get banned for trolling 3/4 the way through the registration process.
I should clarify that they are not ACDs. There is a guy on youtube that has six check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlcGpQq7CfI
Its an unboxing of a MP with the displays. CHECK IT OUT.
Good thinking!
I actually wanted the RAID card but i was told solid-state drives are not compatible with the Mac Pro RAID Card in either RAID or Enhanced JBOD mode.
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That's incredible! I know there's uses for 6 monitors... but I would only use 2 or 3
You're setup is perfect! Do you do any audio on your machine at all? (ie. Logic, Pro Tools)
1) Congratulations. I'm glad you have a job that can use that much 'juice', but even if you didn't, and just wanted a kick-a** machine.... so what. I'm jealous - and happy for you.
2) Yeah, that desk and chair gotta go. Do you have a link to the furniture you ordered?
3) Seriously. Do you have that rig on a UPS (battery back-up)? UPS's are just for power outages, but mostly to smooth out the peaks and valleys. One good brown-out during a critical file save could mess things up. Plus, when a brown-out recovers, it sends a short spike.
4) An air conditioner. I'm sure as you start pushing it, it's going to start heating up the place. Watch out for warp-core breaches!
Cheers!
Its freakin INSANEThat's incredible! I know there's uses for 6 monitors... but I would only use 2 or 3
You're setup is perfect! Do you do any audio on your machine at all? (ie. Logic, Pro Tools)
I rekon the only thing to justify that would be a stock broker or a security guard CCTV station hahaha
I actually have Logic Express 9 but havent tinkered with it that much. The funny thing is that the ACDs come with a pretty good sound system - even come with in-built subs.
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Wow! Nice system. Just curious - what kind of chair did you get?
I think you should tell people you got the system to play free cell, then complain that you paid all that money and they didn't even include the game
I think you should tell people you got the system to play free cell, then complain that you paid all that money and they didn't even include the game
Wow! Nice system. Just curious - what kind of chair did you get?
I think you should tell people you got the system to play free cell, then complain that you paid all that money and they didn't even include the game
I got a nice comfy black leather chair from a local store with a desk too.
Check this chair out:
Id love to have this! except i reckon id fall asleep in it!
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Wow! Nice system. Just curious - what kind of chair did you get?
I think you should tell people you got the system to play free cell, then complain that you paid all that money and they didn't even include the game
haha, agree,
The Apple RAID card is a piece of crap anyway.
And if you've got only two drives, you would have been limited to either RAID0 or RAID1, which can easily be done with software RAID.
Just check out disk utility and set up the RAID, if you want. Sequential reads/writes will be twice as high as a single SSD (~500MB/s), random speeds will mostly remain the same, though. So OS X won't really benefit from it.
The better configuration would be a single OS/app disc, and a dedicated scratch, which I reckon is your current setup now, so you're good.
However, bad choice of SSD's. There are much better third party SSD's available.