The MacPro comes with a cool programme called "ComicLife". It integrates with .mac in the sense you can annotate your photos from iPhoto and upload it to your .mac website.

Anyway, thought I'd use ComicLife to put up photos of my additional hard drives...

These Western Digital Caviar 250 Gb (16gb buffer) are identical to the stock 250Gb drive that the MacPro comes with. The difference is that they were purchased at LYP CZone for RM290. A fraction of what Apple would have charged...




This post has been edited by MacDaNife: Oct 21 2006, 06:44 AM

nice. did u add any RAM?

Not yet.... although there are advantages to be had running quad channel, methinks it is much too early to buy unbuffered RAM for the MacPro at the moment. Have to let enough of these machines reach users before RAM becomes more plentiful and prices come down from present exorbitant levels.

FYI, an additional gig (2 x 512Mb) was quoted to me at a "special price" of RM12xx.

which those RAM will be like 50% less in few months time (from 3rd party ofcourse).
hahaha... now the X1900 already USD100 cheaper.

This post has been edited by wei: Aug 30 2006, 05:40 PM

comic life comes with macbook also.........dunno what is that also...hehehe

nice toy btw

can the new macpro run wiff the raptor hdisk?

It'll run with any SATA hard disk afaik.

Segate drives with 16Mb buffer have reportedly slow read speeds for reasons that are not immediately obvious. For that reason, I went with the Western Digital drive (also 16Mb).

where did u buy your macpro.

Am thinking of BTO my macpro.. but none of the apple center i went could give me a reasonable price list.. most of them damn blur...

talk to VR Tech. Im getting mine from them.

And that's where I got mine from too.

And today, got an iSight webcam too....

gosh... just got the news mine was delayed another 2 weeks...
3.0Ghz model is coming in this week.

You're getting the Mac Pro

Wait....err , iHippo dude...err , wei

I am wondering how many processors it has.............................4 or 2

Since its 2x Dual Core , so that means its 4...How about with HT......so thats 8 right ?

It's 2 x Dual Core. Physically is 2 unit of proc. Total have 4 brains.

Had a spare TDK DVD burner around and thought I'd pop it into the MacPro.

The Optical Drives come mounted on a Aluminum caddy. Interestingly, Apple supplies screws for the second drive ready-for-use on the caddy. Ribbon/power cables are also ready for the second optical drive. You just have to slide one in and connect the cables.



In any case (for those who are interested in this kinda thing) more photos with comments are over at my dotMac site...

HERE

Mac Pro does not support Front Row huh? How come?

For that, you'll have to ask Uncle Steve....

already ordered from them this morning!

which spec u getting?

getting the 3.0GHz.. with 4GB RAM..

errr...

got problem now... VR Tech said that they can purchase the wireless card for me.. strange... strange..

they still checking on that..

u meant "can't" or can actually... confused confused.