I guess it depends on the BTO. You can add Bluetooth or RAM for no real delay, and switching HDDs is apparently likewise not a big deal. It's supposedly just graphics cards and airport that cause the delay.
I never updated my response in this thread. I actually got the Mac Pro on 8/16, after ordering it on 8/8. My order was stock other than 3.0GHz CPUs.
So I've been using the Mac Pro for about 9 days now and it rocks. The stock video card is fine for desktop use, although I will want a "real" card if I play games with it or do some OpenGL modeling... although $500 for the Apple card is just silly.
The real trick is that I'm waiting around for some big manufacturer to start putting big heatsinks on their FB-DIMMs. Don't feel like paying for Apple's RAM, either (or OWC's). I guess I could attach some VGA heatsinks to some NewEgg Kingston RAM and be done with it. The Mac Pro really needs more than the stock 1GB.
Get a gigabyte of Crucial's RAM (two 512MB sticks with Apple-style heatsinks) for $200. There's also a few other places offering it now such as TransIntl:
I never updated my response in this thread. I actually got the Mac Pro on 8/16, after ordering it on 8/8. My order was stock other than 3.0GHz CPUs.
If you have the 3.0 gHz, how about giving us a benchmark on the threadedFactorialHighRes app? The best we have is 2 seconds per processor with the 2.66 gHz models.
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Yeah! This kind of thing is the reason we can't have nice things.
D-d-daddy?
D-d-daddy?
Shut up an' go to bed, boy!
I ordered my Mac Pro August 11th...
They must be pushing all the dates back to torture us or something.....
I ordered 8th August and the shipping date went from the 18th sept to 21st just this afternoon. Ordered 2.66/1gb/250/ap/x1900.
Same specs, same order day. Shipping has been the 13th and hasn't moved... yet...
EDIT: Huh, I wonder what made RBF617's ship date later than ours even though all three of us ordered the same config on the same day.
It's probably because you and I ordered early.
EDIT: Huh, I wonder what made RBF617's ship date later than ours even though all three of us ordered the same config on the same day.
<Apple employe picks which MacPro will ship on which day: eenie, meenie, minie, moe....>
<Apple employe picks which MacPro will ship on which day: eenie, meenie, minie, moe....>
I hope I get a Mac Moe instead of the Mac Meenie.
I hope I get a Mac Moe instead of the Mac Meenie.
I'm sure it'll cost you mo'... hahahahahaha
....
*cough.. Excuse that outburst.
What a step from a Dell 15.4" with 1. gen. Centrino to a Mac Pro 2.66 with 30", unbelievable!
It's probably because you and I ordered early.
EDIT: Huh, I wonder what made RBF617's ship date later than ours even though all three of us ordered the same config on the same day.
Where are you guys based, it could be because im in the UK... just a thought.
I finally switched yesterday to OSX!
What a step from a Dell 15.4" with 1. gen. Centrino to a Mac Pro 2.66 with 30", unbelievable!
Congrats!! <is jealous of that fancy new hardware>
Where are you guys based, it could be because im in the UK... just a thought.
Yeah you might be right, Sharkbait is in Canada and I'm in the US of A.
So I've been using the Mac Pro for about 9 days now and it rocks. The stock video card is fine for desktop use, although I will want a "real" card if I play games with it or do some OpenGL modeling... although $500 for the Apple card is just silly.
The real trick is that I'm waiting around for some big manufacturer to start putting big heatsinks on their FB-DIMMs. Don't feel like paying for Apple's RAM, either (or OWC's). I guess I could attach some VGA heatsinks to some NewEgg Kingston RAM and be done with it. The Mac Pro really needs more than the stock 1GB.
http://www.transintl.com/store/categ...estTimeOut=500
and OWC.
I never updated my response in this thread. I actually got the Mac Pro on 8/16, after ordering it on 8/8. My order was stock other than 3.0GHz CPUs.
If you have the 3.0 gHz, how about giving us a benchmark on the threadedFactorialHighRes app? The best we have is 2 seconds per processor with the 2.66 gHz models.
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Run it without arguments, and it will do 50 million calculations. Then run it with 2 billion calculations by typing
./threadedFactorialHighRes 4 2000000000
See if it can beat 89 seconds for 2 billion. That is what the 2.66 Woodcrest gets.
Get a gigabyte of Crucial's RAM (two 512MB sticks with Apple-style heatsinks) for $200.
Good eye, thanks. I should probably wait until my Mac ships, but... can't... restrain... visa...