8 core mac pro vs i72/20/2023 So I wanted to maybe do that with Mac Pro. I like to upgrade every year or two machine before it's completely worthless so I can spend less money buying a new one. I'm just curious what would be the smart thing to do to make sure I don't lose a lot of money on machine. I also have a fast i7 3.4ghz workstation for PC centric stuff that's my secondary machine at the moment (it was primary for awhile) and I'm thinking my Mac Pro is still faster than that machine. I think that my current 8-core 2.8ghz configuration with 10gb of ram and dual 8800GTs is more then enough for any heavy lifting. I guess the reason why I asked the question is basically whether or not I should wait for something new. Well this machine would be then my primary machine for a certain time period and I do some heavy graphics (design and animations) and a ton of other stuff that requires some beef on the machine. If you're just going to be using it to develop iPhone apps why would you need a beefy machine anyway? I'd just get the cheapest Mac in the store. It's just a huge amount of money for probably not so much performance gain. Right now, I really have hard time justifying spending $5k for a new Mac Pro 8-core 2.66ghz where performance would probably be around 20% gain. Should I maybe wait for new Mac Pro line and see how the pricing goes for those? I'm guessing they should be fueled by newer Nvidia GPUs and possibly some lower prices for 8-core variations or something. So buying a new one doesn't seem it would give me really any real-world improvement. Judging by reviews and speed tests new 2.26 8-core Mac Pros are barely 10% faster than my 2.8ghz 8-cores and sometimes not even 10%. GeForce 120s are probably same or lower performing than 8800GTs and ATI 4870 is already old as hell and I would still need to pay another $360 for another 4870 as I'm running 30" display with 2 additional displays on the sides. I'm just wondering whether or not the upgrade is worth. The really acceptable upgrade to newer Mac Pro 8-core is to 2.26ghz as 8-core Mac Pro at 2.66ghz (Nehalem) is like $5k so that's really crazy. I'm not sure whether or not it is worth upgrading in terms of performance. I've been reading a lot of stuff about the newer Mac Pros but they seem unbelievably expensive. So I have an 8-core 2.8ghz Mac pro with dual 8800GT cards (this is 2008 model with Harpertown cores).
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