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silver dolphin
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it's powerful as heck(as a matter of fact, one of the only comps that hold a candle to the XPS 710) but you can build a nearly as powerful or as a matter of fact, more powerful hackintosh for 3/4 the price. In fact, I'm building a PowerHack Core 2 Quad and it really is gonna blaze! Plus, it's only 800-900 bucks

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it's powerful as heck(as a matter of fact, one of the only comps that hold a candle to the XPS 710) but you can build a nearly as powerful or as a matter of fact, more powerful hackintosh for 3/4 the price. In fact, I'm building a PowerHack Core 2 Quad and it really is gonna blaze! Plus, it's only 800-900 bucks

i know i could probably build one cheaper, but i'm going completely legit for the sake of my music work

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sarahbau
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it's powerful as heck(as a matter of fact, one of the only comps that hold a candle to the XPS 710) but you can build a nearly as powerful or as a matter of fact, more powerful hackintosh for 3/4 the price. In fact, I'm building a PowerHack Core 2 Quad and it really is gonna blaze! Plus, it's only 800-900 bucks

 

I find it hard to believe that you can either build an equivalent hackintosh for 3/4 the price, or a faster one. You can't get faster than dual quad core 3.2GHz Harpertowns (at least not that will run OS X), and Apple uses a 1600MHz FSB, while most others will use 1333MHz. I just tried to configure an equivalent system on NewEgg, and it ended up costing $2351. While that's less than Apple, it's more than 3/4 the price, and that price doesn't include an operating system, keyboard, or mouse. By the time you add those, it's about $2550, or 91% the cost of a Mac Pro. At that price, you might as well get the actual thing.

39thRonin
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I've really enjoyed my Mac Pro Quad. It is literally the best computer I've ever owned (and I have a ton of Suns, Linux Boxen, et. al.). You will really enjoy the sheer power these beasts have. I bought mine last year - before 8 proc became the "standard", and I'm going to upgrade within the next 6-12 months. The only thing that this beast of mine lags on at all is ripping or converting video. Other than that, it screams through everything else...

bigboss
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First off, congrats on the Mac Pro :)

 

I can say that for the performance that the Mac Pro offers, its priced fairly competitively with other workstation class products such as the Dell Precision T7400 for example. With the base configuration its even cheaper actually than a similarly equipped Dell or HP. If only they would offer more competitive pricing in their laptop lineup, then maybe i would have bought a Macbook Pro :). The only downside it appears is the fact that OS X does not support SLI and as such the Mac Pro cannot use the power of 2 Quadro FX 5600 cards for example where the Dell machine can. That being said unless you are an extreme gamer and frequently game at resolutions of 2560x1600 the chances of you needing SLI are quite slim. Also, if you were a gamer, you probably wouldn't be buying a Mac Pro nor would you be running OS X.

 

Coming to reliability, most workstations are designed to have rock solid stability and usually come with high reliability components. While Dell's, HP's, Compaq's etc. entry level PCs may have some reliability problems, I highly doubt that these same problems plague their workstation lineup.

 

As far as the claims of building a Mac Pro for 3/4 of the price go, I guess it's possible but remember you won't have 100% OS X compatibility. That being said, Skulltrail is shaping up to be quite something but I doubt most of us will go for it citing the FB-DIMM ram, the high cost of the board and the fact that 8 cores hasn't really proved its usefulness in everyday computing operations.

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