directive0
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Not really vintage... surplus maybe.
They're letting a Mac Pro go at work; the options are I can have it for free or I can sell it for them. I'm not interested in selling it personally, its a hassle to deal with used-computer consumers for items this large; easier to have someone come pick it up at the office.
Not sure of the specific stats, but its around an '08 quad or octa core I'd wager, word is around 2 gigs of ram. The problem is the ECC FB-DIMM RAM... that stuff is STOOPID expensive, at least relative to consumer RAM. I had originally planned to migrate my Windows stuff onto this guy at home and consolidate my core computers into one device... but just checking out some specs my Dell Vostro 220 (C2Duo) has a much nicer after-purchase video card installed and is already addressing 4 gigs of RAM. Not sure if it makes sense to sacrifice space and time to a computer that although would be nice to triple boot on will not be graphically as fast or upgradable.
To be fair, I'm not really doing anything GPU intensive beyond some light duty ray-tracing and minecraft. Anyone use a Mac Pro as their daily driver?
They're letting a Mac Pro go at work; the options are I can have it for free or I can sell it for them. I'm not interested in selling it personally, its a hassle to deal with used-computer consumers for items this large; easier to have someone come pick it up at the office.
Not sure of the specific stats, but its around an '08 quad or octa core I'd wager, word is around 2 gigs of ram. The problem is the ECC FB-DIMM RAM... that stuff is STOOPID expensive, at least relative to consumer RAM. I had originally planned to migrate my Windows stuff onto this guy at home and consolidate my core computers into one device... but just checking out some specs my Dell Vostro 220 (C2Duo) has a much nicer after-purchase video card installed and is already addressing 4 gigs of RAM. Not sure if it makes sense to sacrifice space and time to a computer that although would be nice to triple boot on will not be graphically as fast or upgradable.
To be fair, I'm not really doing anything GPU intensive beyond some light duty ray-tracing and minecraft. Anyone use a Mac Pro as their daily driver?