{"id":672,"date":"2009-10-10T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2009-10-11T23:21:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T03:21:16","slug":"mac-pro-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikejandreau.com\/mac-pro-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Pro Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"
First, thanks to Nick at the Apple store in the Rockingham Mall (Salem, New Hampshire).\u00a0 Dude knows his stuff, that’s for sure.\u00a0 I know what you’re thinking, all<\/em> the dudes and dudettes at the Apple stores know their stuff.\u00a0 True, but none that I’ve encountered like this guy.\u00a0 He had an answer to every question I had, and got me everything I wanted.\u00a0 Kudos to you, sir.<\/p>\n So, how’s the Mac? Glad you asked. Let’s put it this way: I’ve used a lot of high end PCs in my lifetime. A lot<\/em>. And not one of them has ever come close to this thing.\u00a0 Here’s the final specs:<\/p>\n I’m about 80% done installing all the software I need, and it’s so easy because this thing’s a freakin’ beast.\u00a0 I’ve been installing handfuls of apps at a time.\u00a0 My PC would have thrown up and died an hour ago.\u00a0 So awesome.<\/p>\n As you may know, my PC had two external hard drives, each a terabyte in site, that I had planned on connecting to this beast. However, they used Firewire 400 and the new Mac Pros only have Firewire 800 (only<\/em>, like it’s a bad thing, heh.)<\/p>\n So my solution was rather destructive.\u00a0 I ripped open the cases, and dropped them into the available slots on the Mac Pro.\u00a0 I know what you’re thinking; it’s day one and I’m ripping the thing open already to put more stuff in it?\u00a0 With a PC that may be complicated, but fret not, it takes less than 10 seconds to install a new drive into a Mac Pro. Literally.<\/p>\n So I dropped in the two terabyte drives, and the secondary 320gb drive from my PC, for a total of 2.94TB in the Mac Pro.<\/p>\n The hardest part was opening the freakin’ cases of the drives, which I learned is more complicated than it needs to be. The first was easy, the second I ended up smashing to bits to get the drive out.\u00a0 It worked though.<\/p>\n One of the drives is formatted in a way that OS X can’t erase stuff from it. (I assume this is a formatting issue), so I’m going to copy everything off of it, format it, and put the stuff back.\u00a0 It’ll take a while, but it’ll get done eventually.<\/p>\n The biggest question people are going to ask, is about the 30″ Cinema display.\u00a0 Is it as good as it should be for $1800?\u00a0 You bet your sweet ass it is.\u00a0 I can fit the whole freakin’ internet on this thing, on one screen. It’s huge, and the resolution is enormous.<\/p>\n It truly is a work of art. Given, it should<\/em> be for what I paid for it, but I’m not complaining.<\/p>\n Overall, my Mac experience thus far, has been nothing but excellent.\u00a0 My PC is sitting next to me (as a reminder of what applications I need to install) and begging me not to through it away.\u00a0 With those beady Windows eyes of it.\u00a0 Evil! Evil I say!<\/p>\n Photos of the new set up below (Warning, I didn’t re size them, so they’re going to make your monitor explode.\u00a0 Mine, on the other hand, loves them this large):<\/p>\n\n