The Beast is Complete

[chris]

My G5 was in need of an upgrade and was looking to downsize my computer equipment. So, sent my DELL away via a quick sale on CraigsList and ordered up a new MacPro.

Picked up (2) new Western Digital hard drives (one for Time Machine) and used the other for my main drive. Took the stock drive and used BootCamp to install Vista. I then took my 500 GB and partitioned 100GB for Windows XP. Despite being OEM versions, I was able to activate them twice (once for Bootcamp and once for VMWare Fusion). Added 8GB of matched pair RAM and the beast is complete.

Could not be happier with the rig. My wife is tired of hearing about it and reminds me that it's all I've talked about for the last few days. I keep telling her, "I'm building a supercomputer". It was super out of the box, now it's just plain mean and super. It's like getting 3 computers in one.

BTW, the improvements on the inside of the MacPro vs my G5 is just amazing. The hard drive bays to RAM installation, for the most part is easy as pie.

-Chris

[depthnerd]

That's not really that much though. :P

[patrickj]

Sounds excellent. Throw Ubuntu or some Linux distro on there and really impress the wife :laugh2:

[depthnerd]

He has no use for Linux if he has OSX.

[chris]

Sounds excellent. Throw Ubuntu or some Linux distro on there and really impress the wife :laugh2:

Oh yeah, that'll impress her.:tounge:

I had this master plan in place since December. I originally was waiting to update my Powerbook. After Macworld, I decided to upgrade my desktop rather than my laptop, since there was no info on a new MacBook Pro. Glad I did... I use this thing each day, every day, from morning to night. The laptop usually gets pulled out when my wife is dragging me away from the desktop or the rare vacation.

It officially got a bit more difficult for her to drag me away. On that note, time to retire for the evening. Hopefully, the servers will cooperate tonight.

[geordisjd]

My G5 was in need of an upgrade and was looking to downsize my computer equipment. So, sent my DELL away via a quick sale on CraigsList and ordered up a new MacPro.

Picked up (2) new Western Digital hard drives (one for Time Machine) and used the other for my main drive. Took the stock drive and used BootCamp to install Vista. I then took my 500 GB and partitioned 100GB for Windows XP. Despite being OEM versions, I was able to activate them twice (once for Bootcamp and once for VMWare Fusion). Added 8GB of matched pair RAM and the beast is complete.

Could not be happier with the rig. My wife is tired of hearing about it and reminds me that it's all I've talked about for the last few days. I keep telling her, "I'm building a supercomputer". It was super out of the box, now it's just plain mean and super. It's like getting 3 computers in one.

BTW, the improvements on the inside of the MacPro vs my G5 is just amazing. The hard drive bays to RAM installation, for the most part is easy as pie.

-Chris

But can your beast do this yet? (on Leopard)

http://gallery.mac.com/jacdem/100125/2-20Windoze-20and-20House-20s/web.jpg

1) Run XP
2) Run Vista
3) watch House?

All at the same time...

At only 44% of processor power? (You probably can...It's a MacPro)

[depthnerd]

But can your beast do this yet? (on Leopard)

http://gallery.mac.com/jacdem/100125/2-20Windoze-20and-20House-20s/web.jpg

1) Run XP
2) Run Vista
3) watch House?

All at the same time...

At only 44% of processor power? (You probably can...It's a MacPro)
Mine can and my interface looks better.






:laugh2:

[patrickj]

Mine can and my interface looks better.






:laugh2:

Let's see it then. My sad old Dell Latitude is beaming with pride if it runs Outlook plus Firefox without griping too much :smile: BTW, your new avatar is better looking ...

[geordisjd]

Mine can and my interface looks better.






:laugh2:

Yeah, right...Prove it! You can only use a screenshot and reduce it to a 10x7 pic to fit on these boards.

personally, I don't see how any personal computer (Don't call it PC, please) could do any better.

IT'S A MACPRO!

("Mine is Bigger than Yours" category)

[depthnerd]

Jeez guys, I was joking. I haven't actually tried it yet with Vista installed on a partition. I have XP on a partition and that's about it OSs. But I do have a sexah-er interface than you. :D


EDIT: Just tried watchign Heroes, and using XP to view a lash page and it worked seemlessly. I also had iChat running in on OSX.

[geordisjd]

A partition???? That's such an old-fashioned way of running any OS. You have to be able to run ALL 3 systems at the same time without any partition on the same screen (otherwise, what the point? You might as well have 3 different computers).

As of sexah-ier, it has to be defined! Must be different for each of us.

[depthnerd]

Old:

http://depthnerd.deviantart.com/art/Leopard-Desktop-four-zero-73309317

New:

http://img.skitch.com/20080308-dfmqr9eepn21tm9ky28ixnkic4.png

[geordisjd]

Cute, maybe, but sexah-ier? And where are all your Windoze windows?
And what kind of Mac user call his/her HD "MacIntosh HD"? (And no special icon for it???).

I haven't called any HD by such a harsh name since 1994.

My present HD's (MP and externals connected to it):

http://gallery.mac.com/jacdem/100125/Picture-208/web.jpg

Just joking. Even in 1994, there was a name for the likes of me: GraphicObsessed

[depthnerd]

Cute, maybe, but sexah-ier? And where are all your Windoze windows?
And what kind of Mac user call his/her HD "MacIntosh HD"? (And no special icon for it???).

I haven't called any HD by such a harsh name since 1994.

My present HD's (MP and externals connected to it):

http://gallery.mac.com/jacdem/100125/Picture-208/web.jpg

Just joking. Even in 1994, there was a name for the likes of me: GraphicObsessed
It has a special con - like everything else on my Mac. It's using David Lanhams set of icons for HD,s and I have susumu's Smooth Leopard set for Finder folders and sidebar icons. The icons I have in my dock and on my desktop are not for release (not made by me btw).


Also, adding a name to my HD's doesn't ft with me. I keep little things liek that original.

[geordisjd]

It has a special con - like everything else on my Mac. It's using David Lanhams set of icons for HD,s and I have susumu's Smooth Leopard set for Finder folders and sidebar icons. The icons I have in my dock and on my desktop are not for release (not made by me btw).


Also, adding a name to my HD's doesn't ft with me. I keep little things liek that original.

Sexah-ier Has a different meaning for each of us, even with HD's...:smile:

[depthnerd]

Sexah-ier Has a different meaning for each of us, even with HD's...:smile:
True.

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