New Mac Pro quad 8 - This is great! PS CS3 at 200 MPH

Well, I have my new quad 3.0 Mac Pro up and running - and it is great.
I purchased the quad 8 3.0 at an Apple Store - with 2 optical drives, 1 GB (4 X 512), the Radeon X1900 video card, and a single 250 GB hard drive. It was a bundle and the only way to get a quad 3.0 at the store.
I ordered 8 GB of RAM (4 X 2 GB) from Crucial - bringing me up to 10 GB. I used the VERY helpful information here to install the extra RAM:
http://peloche.smugmug.com/photos/91752872-O.jpg
I added a FW 800 PCI Express card to run some LaCie external hard drives. They booted up fine.
I also purchased 2 Raptor 10,000 RPM 150 GB drives and a 500 GB maxtor hard drive. They were all easy to install and I set up a Raid 0 with the Raptors for a Photoshop CS3 scratch area. The 500 GB drive will be for internal image storage.
Everything was easy to install. The Apple designers have done a fantastic job of making internal expansions of drives and memory a snap.
I hear no beeps - everything is whisper quiet - there are no crashes or spinning beach balls.
I installed the Photoshop CS3 Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software and it is very happy with the new machine.
Compare to my old dual 2.7 G5 and PS CS2 this machine/software combo just plain blows me away.
Start up of PS CS3 is in seconds. Applying layer adjustments or filters to 300 MB images is so fast I cannot believe it!
My next task is to get my 3 wide format Epson printers (7600, 9600 and 9800) up and running. I'll update if there any problems there. I also need to calibrate the 20" and 23" cinema displays wtih my X-Rite eye one system - and make some new paper profiles for the printers.
So - I want to post this simply because almost everything one can read on this Mac Pro discussion is from the handful of people who experience some kind of problem. The thousands of users who are happy and even ecstatic do not show up here.
If you are contemplating getting the Mac Pro for PS CS3 - just take out that credit card and do it!
Life is good.
Dick
Mac Pro 3.0, G5 2.7, 2 intel iMacs, 1 MacBook, 1 Powerbook, 18 G4 Macs, 3 iPods   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   I teach Digital Photography clases - on Macs

Dick,
Your machine sounds great. You'll love it!
I purchased a 2.66 with 2GB RAM and the geforce7300 floor model from Bestbuy 2 days before the final closeout.
I went into the store to see if I could buy a work bench from their rear lab since there wasn't anything left, and amazingly I saw the Mac Pro among a pile of old computers and other junk with the keyboard and mouse tangled on top of it. It looked great with no scratches -- just great -- but there was not even a working monitor to try it and see if it was working.
I opened the lid to see if anything was missing or something and it looked so clean -- no dust -- that I don't think they ever plugged it in (If you look inside the floor models at an Applestore they have so much dust from being ON 24/7 or 12/7).
The price was just so amazing that I gambled and bought it. From there I went straight to my Applestore and had it install the Airport+BT cards and asked the genius to plugit in to see if it was working. He said it was OK. I also updated the date of purchase with Apple to get the full one year warranty.
Got home, connected my 23" Cinema and fired it up. I did all the software and firmware updates since it had none. It was working perfect! Next day I ordered 2 more Gigs from crucial and 4 HDDs.
It's my first Mac desktop since I always used PowerBooks/MBPs. The difference in speed with CS3 is just incredible. It takes less than 10 seconds to apply a filter that on my MBP 2.16 takes 35sec.
I'm blown away with this machine; it's design, easiness of expanding, build quality, ect.
Looking at some benchmarks from Barefeats comparing the 8-core with the 4-core, you will see that the 8 blows the 4 away in many video apps, but amazingly with PSCS3 the diference is 0%. I use it mainly for CS3 and Aperture and it changed my whole experience.
Like you say: Life is good
Bests!
-pablo

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