Mine is a 2 x 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon and is now 4 years old. It
came with a 250Gb drive and 1Gb memory, from the Apple refurbish store.
As soon as I got it (you can't change the config on ordering), I added
an extra 250Gb drive and another 2Gb memory. It now has additional 500Gb
and 1Tb drives and 7Gb memory. I added the extra memory to run Parallels
and 2 different Windows configurations, and it rarely uses the swapfile.
I upgraded from Tiger directly to Snow Leopard, about 9 months ago. The
computer is as fast as the day it arrived, its used most days (all day),
has never had a problem, and is virtually silent. It's under my desk,
stored vertically.
Hope that's useful ... Graham
on 28/08/2010 13:32 Jason Davies sent the following:
Tired of endless external hard drives sitting around, I'm pondering
switching from this set-up:
antiquated iMac (media centre)
half-decent laptop
several external hard drives (inc their back-ups) [wires
everywhere, and wireless between the two]
where the laptop is the main machine
to
a Mac Pro with antiquated laptop that is basically a netbook (but
still a Mac;-))
Everything the laptop needs on the move is on the cloud these days
via Dropbox but an iPad won't quite do the job.
I'm not doing video-editing or the traditional heavy CPU stuff but I
do reliably choke any machine I use by having endless windows open and
about 17 applications all doing something. The only really hard-worker
I have is Macspeech Dictate which I use in fits and starts.
I suppose my question is "if I buy a Mac Pro and keep upgrading the
parts/adding faster, bigger disks" will it last for years, both in
terms of durability but also of still keeping pace with speeding up
performance?
CPU speed increases are hard to track these days with the focus on
quadcore (etc). Currently the entry level iMac apparently has a faster
processor than the entry-level clock of the Mac Pros, but they are
different chips etc etc.
The other question is -- are they silent (as a laptop *can* be?) when
operating? oh, and can they be stored on their side rather than
vertically?;-)
thanks for any thoughts.
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