MacPros are incredibly long lasting. My old work still has G5 macpros performing video ingesting and other tasks daily to this day. Its conceivable that one would keep going for 10 years, but in 10 years time how useful will it really be, imagine trying to use a G3 now even to look at "todays" flash filled media rich websites.
Also, I can confirm that they work just fine on the side, and while not being silent they are very quiet indeed, far quieter than any desktop PC I have ever heard. As you probably know they have 4 hard drive slots, and you can buy any 3.5" sata disks and screw them into the mounting brackets and fit them yourself, its incredibly easy to do. The same goes for the memory, you slide out trays and add memory from the comfort of your table rather than having to lift the whole computer out from where it is. The thing is, for your situation I do think they are overkill. If its just your storage you would like to clear up and you don't need the macpro power or multiple graphics cards + monitors capabilies, then I'd suggest trying a mac mini, and attaching a device such as a drobo, or some other similar firewire disk enclosure. It will work out far cheaper, consume less power, and probably be quieter depending on the noise of the drobo or attached raid. You could even get started with a usb hub and attach all of your various drives through that, then move it to a safer array later on. Toby On Aug 28, 5:18 pm, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > > 24 core "newrubbishcodename" chip which will hopefully be pin compatible > > with the current macpro's processor socket. > > yeah, I lost ten minutes of my life trying to work the different ones > out, then gave up...> The added expense of a macpro is quite substantial, are > you sure a quad core iMac wouldn't perform faster for less money? > > are they quadcore? it doesn't say so out loud (so then the i3 is quad > core?) Unless you mean the 27-inch -- which isn't much shy of the entry > Mac Pro. Plus, I don't actually have a big enough desk for the 27";-) > > Yes it is expensive but the idea is that it lasts nearly forever...and > allows me to reduce the outrageous clutter I have with external disks > etc. I would load all that stuff into the Mac Pro and not expect to > replace it for ten years, basically...I have a 22" monitor that would > be redundant with an iMac, blah blah. I like the idea of having > something I can slap an extra hard drive into every two years, or easily > upgrade them, add to the RAM up to the max over time, and so on. > > I'll probably not get the mone ytogether for *anything* for quite some > months, whatever I decide...;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
