Is this Mac Pro a good product for the price

[T.Vengeance]

http://youtu.be/uj0S2rgmu-M?t=3m51s

 

[Enderman]

to be fair it has two Dual-Cores (4 cores total)

for xeons, that is really sad and pathetic

a consumer cpu such as i3 i5 and i7 are much better

until you start getting at the over-$1k xeons, which have at least 8 cores

[ShiverMePenguins]

So heres the specs (Mac Pro 1.1 Intel Dual-Core Xeon(x2), ATI Radeon 5770, 15 GB ram, 250GB HD) for $460.00

 

 

Is it worth it for picture editing and coding?

 

Also completely disregard the fact that is a Mac

for 460$.... sorta?

 

for picture editing and coding it would be great. just remember that if you want to game, or do anything intensive that requires a gpu you'll probably want to upgrade it.

[MrSuperb]

for xeons, that is really sad and pathetic

a consumer cpu such as i3 i5 and i7 are much better

until you start getting at the over-$1k xeons, which have at least 8 cores

jesus ... as I said before, they are over 7 years old.

 

There were NO i3/5/7s back then. The Mac Pro (1,1) was released in August 2006. The first 'consumer' Quad-core from Intel, the QX6700 was released in November 2006. The first QC Xeon for workstations was released in January 2007.

 

THOSE WERE TOP OF THE LINE PROCESSORS BACK THEN (MID 2006) !!!

[MrSuperb]

A  somewhat modern mac mini will beat the crap out of a quadcore (2x dual core) Mac Pro from 2006 ...

[notenoughtv]

iMovie and iPhoto are not intensive programs. You could probably get away with using a mac mini and putting an SSD in there.

I mean is High School. How bad is it if something takes 30 more minutes to render. You probably have other homework to do while you wait

[AMD Lover]

for 460$.... sorta?

 

for picture editing and coding it would be great. just remember that if you want to game, or do anything intensive that requires a gpu you'll probably want to upgrade it.

I have a windows computer for gaming but i didnt really want to mention that because then it would be.... Oh no! Your Windows computer can do even more than that sucky Mac, so i didnt

[AMD Lover]

Well i've decided for a 08/09 Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM or More and dual quads, so eight core. I'm not buying one now simply because i'm still in the progress of upgrading my Windows computer but around Christmas i will be getting one.

 

 

 

 

I have to say this was defiantly a nice topic to debate over.    

 

 

 

Thanks for the help and insight

[ShiverMePenguins]

Well i've decided for a 08/09 Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM or More and dual quads, so eight core. I'm not buying one now simply because i'm still in the progress of upgrading my Windows computer but around Christmas i will be getting one.

 

 

 

 

I have to say this was defiantly a nice topic to debate over.    

 

 

 

Thanks for the help and insight

just remember. mac os is written differently than your windows counterpart. so you don't NEED as much processing power ( in my experience at least) to complete the same task. also, there are various gpu's out there that are designed for use with macs, so if you feel the need to get some horsepower, consider that as a solution.