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frankly wrote:

MacZiMiZer wrote:

Apple gives you a 500gb in the main drive bay for only $100 more bucks, not a bad deal

Really??? You and I have different definitions of what constitutes a good deal then. For that $100 you are not getting a 500GB drive. You are getting 180GB of extra drive space. For just $109 at other world computing you can get an EXTRA 500GB hard drive instead. So I'd say that's is in fact a bad deal at the Apple store. That same drive would cost you $250 at the Apple store. For $239 you can get a 750GB drive or for $280 you can get a 1TB drive from OWC. Heck, for less than it would cost you to upgrade that first drive to 500GB and add one more 500GB drive you could keep your 320GB and add 3 500GB drives to the mix.

Frank

hence I specifically said the main drive, you're stuck with getting something in there, granted you could get an external SATA case, pull out whatever you get from apple and slap in whatever you want.  I got three 320s for $60 each so I'm happy (plus the now 320 standard coming with it)

avkills wrote:

Yeah the RAM and Drive prices from Apple are crazy.

-mark

can't complain too much, it's probably part of why Mac upgrade sellers are strong, they fill the gap.  I'm very pleased with OWC myself, I'll be ordering ram from them when they catch up with the 800mhz PCI2.0

avkills wrote:

MacZiMiZer wrote:

avkills wrote:

Yeah the RAM and Drive prices from Apple are crazy.

-mark

can't complain too much, it's probably part of why Mac upgrade sellers are strong, they fill the gap.  I'm very pleased with OWC myself, I'll be ordering ram from them when they catch up with the 800mhz PCI2.0

Huh?  They already have the 800Mhz RAM for the new MacPro.  BTW PCIx2.0 has nothing to do with RAM.  The RAM is FB-DIMM DDR.

-mark

my bad, dunno why my brain grabbed the PCI 2 >.<

I didn't see it there, but didn't look hard

Anyone know if Apple has fixed the bus/memory speed problem?  when they first brought out the 8-core it didn't run much faster than the quad's when dealing with memory use

ok they just today or yesterday added the Ram at OWC (at least on the main Mac Pro page).  Anyone know the main difference between the N ceritified and non Ram?

Last edited by MacZiMiZer (2008-01-10 10:02 pm)

MacZiMiZer wrote:

avkills wrote:

Yeah the RAM and Drive prices from Apple are crazy.

-mark

can't complain too much, it's probably part of why Mac upgrade sellers are strong, they fill the gap.  I'm very pleased with OWC myself, I'll be ordering ram from them when they catch up with the 800mhz PCI2.0

Looks like it ships in a few days: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory

What does one do with 32 GB you say?

WOPR, Anything else is a freaking disappointment.

So I'm wondering, while I did my best to order mine before Mac Expo hoping to avoid delays, of course the 8800 shortage pushed the ship date to feb 13,  will my order get pushed back even further once all the Mac Expo orders hit the store?  Or is that ship date semi-garunteed?  Much as it's a bit late now to settle for the ATI HD2600 and buy an 8800 when they're available.  Honestly if it means not waiting over a month I wouldn't mind paying the extra $100 since I make that in a week.  But with the Expo being upon us already, it probably won't speed things up now.

Last edited by MacZiMiZer (2008-01-12 7:59 am)

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