![]() That way you will know which machine is the 4 or 8 core instead of trying to remember what silly names we used on the machines here at B-Scene. OWC is a great vendor for Mac products, I highly recommend them.Īs a side note, I will refer to the 4 core machine as BigMac4 and the 8 core machine as Angus8. I ordered 4GB of RAM for the machine for $199 from Other World Computing and it arrived last Thursday. It comes with a 320GB drive and 2GB RAM standard. We named it Angus on our network in keeping with the McDonald's theme that we had going with the BigMac (Angus is a new burger at McDonald's). So we picked up the base model 8 core 2.8 GHz machine. Low and behold they announced the updates a week prior to the show (god forbid it might infringe on Randy Newman's wonderful singing.). I decided that we would wait until MacWorld to see if an updated Mac Pro would be announced. Towards the end of last year, we determined the need for another machine. It's name on our network is BigMac since it was the most powerful Mac in our stable. It is configured with 6GB of RAM, the standard 250GB drive, 2 750GB SATA drives in a RAID 0 configuration for the storage of captured footage. So for users of the current version of Pages under Leopard, you have been warned ☺Īpple Mac Pro 2.8GHz 8 core system reviewĪt B-Scene Films, we have had a quad core Intel Mac Pro for about 9 months. I had multiple application hangs and crashes and resorted to using Microsoft Word 2008. This is the first time that I have made significant use of the application since we went Leopard here at B-Scene. ![]() For this article, I found Pages to be very unstable. When I write articles for the blog, I write them in Pages before I post them. Preface: I had purchased iWork about a year ago and I also upgraded it recently when Apple added the Numbers Application to the suite. ![]()
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