Mac Pro (2.66 GHz): First impressions
The one good thing to come out of my on-going troubles with my G5 Quad is that my employer recently agreed to buy me a new machine to replace my … in the way at all.) The machine was ordered from Apple Canada Education on September 29. It was shipped … ’t help that the machine was stuck at the Canadian border during the October 7-9 week-end, which…..
…..While waiting for the machine, I ordered 4 modules of 1 GB of RAM from CanadaRAM, which arrived by XpressPost within a couple of days. The RAM for the Mac Pro is still rather expensive. (It cost me over $1,100 CDN.)…..
……The first major shock was the noise level. I had read that the machine was really quiet, but I didn’t expect it to be that quiet. It is really quite amazing, especially considering the level of performance of the machine. It is significantly quieter than the G5 Quad, which itself was significantly quieter than the G4 MDD. As someone who is very sensitive to noise issue, I must admit that it was a very pleasant surprise……
This was a really great review, I found it looking for a good review on the new Macbook Pro’s. If you are looking for the desktop you should enjoy this review, if you happen to know a good hands on review covering Macbook Pro’s of this quality please let me know.
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