Sep 13
Sep 13
I’m an avid reader of Anandtech’s reviews. They do a great job and aren’t afraid to push the limits. This week they swapped out the stock Xeon processor in a Mac Pro for a pre-release quad core from Intel. You gotta love those guys. How many of you would pry out your processor from a new Mac Pro let alone put in some pre-release chip in it’s place. Thankfully Anandtech has huge balls and Mac Pro owners now have an easy upgrade path in the future.
Sep 13
I’m not sure if any other Mac Pro users out there are experiencing this, but my apple issued mouse is acting wonky. It will randomly move the cursor and activate Expose. I’ve tried two different mice on both my G4 Powerbook and Mac Pro. It is definitely something with the Mac Pro (or maybe the apple keyboard it is plugged into).
Sep 13
It’s looking very much like 2GB of RAM in the Mac Pro simply is not enough. With any other computer that would not be a big deal. $100 would solve the problem. But oh no…not for the illustrious Apple Mac “Pro.” It will cost a painful $300 for another 1GB. Sure the computer is ultra quiet. I’m sure those special heat sinks are helping. But my god, $300 for a measly one GB of RAM? As this post also mentions, iTunes 7 now sucks a lot of memory as well. Since iTunes is one of those applications that is left running constantly, this is a real problem.
What’s wrong with this situation. I need to spend the equivalent of an iPod to upgrade my RAM to handle the software to update my iPod?
I know what you’re going to say (I’m creepy like that), but I have not heard anything good about the cheaper third party RAM for the Mac Pro.
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