What do you this of this COMPUTER?

Question

Yea well my girlfriend just bought me this apple computer because i am gonna start studies in Multimedia, gonna be using all those design softwares out there... She bought it for....$23000...i know its expensive...what do you think?
Two 2.93GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” (12 cores)
32GB (8x4GB)
Mac Pro RAID Card
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
One 18x SuperDrive
Apple Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad
Apple Wireless Keyboard (Japanese) & User's Guide
Apple Battery Charger
Quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card
iWork Family Pack preinstalled
Aperture preinstalled
Final Cut Express preinstalled
FileMaker Pro 11 preinstalled
Microsoft Office Mac 2011 - Home and Business Edition
Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter
Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter
Country Kit

Answer 1

WTF? Did she just buy you everything? There is no way you need a Fibre Channel card for your machine, and that's $1000 right there.



The computer itself is incredible- those are server-grade processors. You can set up the 4 hard drives in a RAID configuration because of the card which means you can pretend you have a single 1TB hard drive that's 4 times as fast. 32GB of RAM is way more than you're going to need even for video editing.



She really didn't need to get you both iWork and Microsoft Office- they both do the same thing. MS Office is actually better, but they both work. You probably won't need FileMaker but you're going to really appreciate having Aperture and Final Cut.

Answer 2

Was that $23,000 or $2,300?

Anyway I hate Steve Jobs, but that computer sounds like a beast.

I'd suggest setting up a RAID 1 before you start using it. Keep that data safe!

Answer 3

On a Mac, shift/manipulate/three takes a photograph of the reveal. If you press shift/manipulate/four, you'll be able to click on and drag over the subject you wish; the photograph is taken while you liberate the mouse button.

Answer 4

well.. atleast you didn't have to pay for it

thanks for bending the truth a ton ^

It cost alot less brand new then the price you put.

Answer 5

what? Apple Wireless Keyboard (Japanese)? 23k is too much for any computer....

Answer 6

I think it was toooo expensive

Answer 7

what!!!!!!!!!! 23000$!!!!!!!! can i be your girlfriend's boyfriend