Photoshop :: Will A Current Mac Pro Be Enough Or Wait For Hardware Update
Jul 3, 2007
I have ordered a Mac Pro, but it hasn't shipped from apple. But, there has been talk that there MIGHT be a hardware update to the Mac Pro in the near future, and it might be more cost effective to wait for that. Sitting on a ordered machin e that hasn't shipped yet, I'm having serious second thoughts on whether to cancel, or let the order go through.
It really want/need a new machine, I'm a working web designer and graphic artist that owns my own business, so I'm chained to my Wacom 50-60 hours a week, trying to stay in business. Right now I have a 4 year old pentium machine that I've just had enough of.
So, I ordered the Mac Pro with the following specs
Quad 2.66ghz
5 gigs of ram (added 4gigs to the existing 1)
250gb standard drive, and adding in a few more for scratch disk and storage
Dual Nvidia 7300 cards, for up to 4 monitors (I currently will use 3)
and the rest of the standard Mac Pro goodies. Cost about $3500
I'm a constant worry-wart and I'm thinking "Man, next month they'll have Octo-core machines with more ram for the same price, and I'll be screwed with this outdated junker macpro!!"
So, with the above specs, will I ever need more power for doing low-res web graphics, Flash design, php/html/css coding in dreamweaver, and designs in illustrator and indesign? And sometimes, all at once?
Or am I dreaming and this machine will ALWAYS be more than enough for web design work. Because in a day or 2, they're going to ship it to me and then it's a done deal.
I wanted a hot-rod. But the mac-forum guys have me all worried that an even better hot-rod is (maybe) just around the corner, and the smart choice is to wait and see what the Mac Pro v.2 looks like, and THEN buy it. Or, maybe I'd wait 6-8 months, they release MPv2, and it's not that huge of a deal and I'm out 6 months of having a decent machine (since I already waited a year... I bought a Mac Pro on the release day and canceled it).
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It is very similar to this one but it is not solved. [URL] .....
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[Code] .....
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[URL]..........
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Here is a short video showing what it does. [URL] .....
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I don't think it's document-specific, but just to leave nothing to chance, if you want to try to reproduce it, you can download a copy of the file: [URL] ......
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