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Quote: Originally Posted by akadmon 1. $25 is about one week's worth of Starbucks lattes. No points for you. 2. With 4+ internal drives (each of which can be partitioned any number of ways), why would anyone on a MP want to boot from an external drive? 1. Sonnet Tempo SATA E2P ($48.97 @ OWC), so the bracket's cheaper ($$24.95). More expensive than newegg, but it has one end at RT angle, the other straight (easier to install) 2....

Quote: Originally Posted by BHamilton That's a looong install to get a screenshot. I'll kick off the install tomorrow and post the pic. What is it in 2008 that has your curiosity? I am curious to know the limits and the problems with the 2008 model baffels me a bit to be honest. I post a pic of my uMBP.

If you want to modify your rom, with fan speed and other stuff, download RBE (radeon bios editor) for Windows. With Catalyst Control Center in Windows you can see the card fan rpm also.

Quote: Originally Posted by tjsdaname I really want to know if this would be a good deal? http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/c-u67071 I will be getting a new mac desktop in january, because I will be taking video editing classes and running final cut pro / express my real question is: Would I be better off getting a 27" i5 imac or the mac pro in the link??? Thanks guy's, Not a good deal... Get the iMac.

Quote: Originally Posted by TMRaven What I don't get is why you're using only 2 gigs of ram for your mac pro. The xeons use triple channel memory bandwidth, so you'll get the most out of them with 3 parallel sticks of ram at the same speed! The least you could do for your mac pro is to go out and buy a triple channel set for around 200 usd. Dual channel, not triple channel. RAM in the 08 MacPro in pairs of two, not three! And...

Quote: Originally Posted by gfhoward My current speakers aren't built to utilize the rear audio jack on my Mac Pro, they only work with the front headphone jack. Anyone know if the Swan M-10s can run on the rear analog audio port? When your plug them in, are you selecting the rear jacks in Sound prefs?

Quote: Originally Posted by nanofrog The fact it can daisy chain is rather nice, and that would be it's real selling point. Fewer differing interfaces required, as multiple (if not all) of a user's peripheral devices can be connected to a single port. But like FW, there's going to be a cost in switching overhead. No way around that, as the optical signal has to be converted back to electrical. Particularly in the beginning, as...

Quote: Originally Posted by VirtualRain RAM disks on modern operating systems are largely a waste of RAM... the OS is already using untapped RAM for disk caching so by adding a RAM drive you're effectively caching the contents in RAM twice. This doesn't come from me, but a former developer at Apple. ( source ) I tested his theory with PS CS4 since it can't allocate more than 3GB of ram, I created a 2GB ram disk. I can open and...

Quote: Originally Posted by sidewinder RAID 0 for backups? That makes no sense. You don't need the speed and the risk is high even if the RAID array is not your only backup. Look up SNAFU.....because that is what you will have. S- It's odd... Every week we hear people who are thinking of using a RAID for backup, when will people start to learn that RAID isn't a archiving solution?

EDIT - below is a contextual error. From the front page some time ago - Jewel in a heap of news. Original story from Hardmac . Personally my upgrade's in Q2, so an early release would be really beneficial for testing systems for any spectacular problems that could occur. Not to mention it could lead to a revision to fix those problems. Gotta love that being a MacPro user/enthusiast means being part of a sample group.