Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
http://www.apple.com/macpro/performance.html
"Shoot RAW?
Then you’ll want to focus your attention on the blazing fast, highly expandable Mac Pro. That’s because it addresses just about every need that might arise for digital photographers.
Two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors — quad-performance in every system — deliver all the speed you need to display your large RAW files. Instantly and as large as screen real estate permits.
By upgrading to a high-performance graphics card, you can make the most out of such OpenGL accelerated applications as Aperture.
Four hard drive bays give you options. Stripe your drives in a RAID 0 to build an extra large volume of up to 2TB. Or pair two drives in a RAID 1 for redundant reliability and instant backups.
Work large. Thanks to built-in support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, you can edit, compare, rate, organize, and adjust images full screen in Aperture. And because Mac Pro offers built-in support for two displays, you can compare multiple images at once to find your selects faster.
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet and high-speed I/O provide high-bandwidth and convenient connections to networks, printers, scanners, cameras, and storage devices."
Can't use previous PCI and PCI express cards.
What is the practical significance?
As far as cost is concerned I spec'd out one for PS with just 4GB Ram and 160GB hard drive (new ones are simple to add and I have plenty.
Two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4GB (4 x 1GB)
160GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
1 x SuperDrive
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Apple USB Modem
Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
Mac OS X - U.S. English
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro/Power Mac (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
The price comes to $4701 plus *% tax but kidly enough, free shiipping.
Nice for Aperture fans, that should really be much faster as they are apparently designed for each other.
No speed tests yet for PS CS2! Can it use the 64 bit processors?
Asher
P.S. an extra note on Memory. This is the major cause in my experience of Kernel Panic!
So I am starting to favor apple memory. I'd rather have 4GB of trouble free RAM than 8GB of KP!
"Mac Pro uses 667MHz DDR2 fully buffered ECC memory, a new industry-standard memory technology that allows for more memory capacity, higher speeds, and better reliability. To take full advantage of the 256-bit wide memory architecture, four or more FB-DIMMs should be installed in Mac Pro."
Not that last point and don't just use 2 GB DIMMS!
"Shoot RAW?
Then you’ll want to focus your attention on the blazing fast, highly expandable Mac Pro. That’s because it addresses just about every need that might arise for digital photographers.
Two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors — quad-performance in every system — deliver all the speed you need to display your large RAW files. Instantly and as large as screen real estate permits.
By upgrading to a high-performance graphics card, you can make the most out of such OpenGL accelerated applications as Aperture.
Four hard drive bays give you options. Stripe your drives in a RAID 0 to build an extra large volume of up to 2TB. Or pair two drives in a RAID 1 for redundant reliability and instant backups.
Work large. Thanks to built-in support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, you can edit, compare, rate, organize, and adjust images full screen in Aperture. And because Mac Pro offers built-in support for two displays, you can compare multiple images at once to find your selects faster.
Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet and high-speed I/O provide high-bandwidth and convenient connections to networks, printers, scanners, cameras, and storage devices."
Can't use previous PCI and PCI express cards.
What is the practical significance?
As far as cost is concerned I spec'd out one for PS with just 4GB Ram and 160GB hard drive (new ones are simple to add and I have plenty.
Two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4GB (4 x 1GB)
160GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
1 x SuperDrive
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Apple USB Modem
Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
Mac OS X - U.S. English
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro/Power Mac (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll
The price comes to $4701 plus *% tax but kidly enough, free shiipping.
Nice for Aperture fans, that should really be much faster as they are apparently designed for each other.
No speed tests yet for PS CS2! Can it use the 64 bit processors?
Asher
P.S. an extra note on Memory. This is the major cause in my experience of Kernel Panic!
So I am starting to favor apple memory. I'd rather have 4GB of trouble free RAM than 8GB of KP!
"Mac Pro uses 667MHz DDR2 fully buffered ECC memory, a new industry-standard memory technology that allows for more memory capacity, higher speeds, and better reliability. To take full advantage of the 256-bit wide memory architecture, four or more FB-DIMMs should be installed in Mac Pro."
Not that last point and don't just use 2 GB DIMMS!
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