The Mac Pro is a professional / developers machine. Basically, if you're asking "What's the difference" between the MacBook and the Mac Pro... you really don't need the Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro is a professional / developers machine. Basically, if you're asking "What's the difference" between the MacBook and the Mac Pro... you really don't need the Mac Pro.
Perfect answer. If you have to ask - you don't need it.
The only "work" or "real world" reason I would buy one of these is to have either 2/3 30"ers with Parallels running on one, Mac on one, and CCTV Software on the Third... The CCTV Software is UBER Processor Intensive and so is serving up all the Video to Clients...
I don't edit HD Video...
I don't do any "real" work...
Am I wasting my money?
P.s. Can you "Game" in Parallels properly using a Mac Pro? As the PCI-E slots in there can take any graphics cards - would I be mad to stick some UBER gaming card(s) in there and use it like that?
I dont really understand this thread. It should be pretty obvious the differences between a Mac Pro and a MacBook, and at any rate it's not what game it plays, its how it plays the game. That was a metaphor btw although I suppose literal works too for computers.
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What exactly can the Mac Pro do that my MacBook can't?
Isn't that the quandry of *all* Macs in the last 10 years?
They've all been capable of doing the same things.
The Mac Book (not Mac Book Pro) is not certified to run Apple Final Cut Studio apps, but it does.
The Mac Pro is just faster and more expandable.
Mac Pro: 16 GBs of RAM
Mac Book:2GB
Mac Pro: Video Card expandable
Mac Book: Not
Mac Pro: has PCI Express slots
MacBook: Has none
So to do video editing with uncompressed HD the Mac Pro will ebat you. For iMovie it's probably the same.
Pro Tools HD will be available in September for the Mac Pro. Pro Tools LE will run on the Mac Book.
Ask yourself this: what can a $4000 dollars Windows machine do better than a $300 dollars Windows machine?
P.s. What am I going to do with the PCI Express Slots?
P.s. How many 30 Inch Screens can I stick on it when I max the Mac Pro out with 4 Graphics Cards?
P.s. I KNOW that there is going to be an update with the 30 Inch Screens because of the Price Cutting!
What exactly can the Mac Pro do that my MacBook can't?
Of course. The Mac Pro can grate cheese; a feature that has been included in the highest end Macintosh for years.
I did this one after I bought my DP 2.5 G5
If that were the NEW MacPro, there'd be two blocks of cheese there....
What exactly can the Mac Pro do that my MacBook can't?
Be fast and expandable and not have a myriad of quality assurance problems?
The Mac Pro is a professional / developers machine. Basically, if you're asking "What's the difference" between the MacBook and the Mac Pro... you really don't need the Mac Pro.
Perfect answer. If you have to ask - you don't need it.
What exactly can the Mac Pro do that my MacBook can't?
REAL work...
What exactly can the Mac Pro do that my MacBook can't?
Finish a ftdock run in my lifetime.
I don't edit HD Video...
I don't do any "real" work...
Am I wasting my money?
P.s. Can you "Game" in Parallels properly using a Mac Pro? As the PCI-E slots in there can take any graphics cards - would I be mad to stick some UBER gaming card(s) in there and use it like that?
What exactly can the Mac Pro do that my MacBook can't?
Nothing: but the MacPro can do it in 1/10th the time...
I once had someone was FCP long on their Powerbook, and it burnt on him. Guess with a classroom, projector, and 5hrs of FCP, it was hurting.
Not common, but laptops shouldn't be stressed to the level of Desktops like MacPro.
Those $40 laptop fan coolers may seem expensive foolish at first, but now I recomend it to anyone stupid enough to click render with a 6hr timer.
P.s. Can you "Game" in Parallels properly using a Mac Pro?
No. Parallels has no GPU acceleration.