Purchasing a Mac Pro
Sorry, but I was not sure where exactly to post this but I wanted to know if there was another site or place I can visit where I can purchase a Mac Pro rather than getting it from the Apple Store. There are a few things that I dont want that the Apple Store wont let me change. Any help would be greatfull.
Currenty a few old ones compared to todays standards. Games like Rainbow Six 3, Operation Flashpoint, Act of War and even older games like Rogue Spear and Starcraft. The newest one that I own that I REALLY want to play with great settings on is World in Conflict. I wanted to install the Boot Camp to play some PC games, but I also browsed the Wikipedia site and found that a few of the games I play on the PC works on the Mac so most likely only a few games I will be playing on Boot Camp, plus my wife prefers Windows (side note, I most likely will get her a cheap laptop from WalMart someday). On the Mac side some of the games that have been ported to the Mac format and other misc task like minor video editing and web browsing. Not just that, I love the OS on the Mac. It feels 10X more stable than a Windows OS and I like the feel and ease of use on it. Thats why I still have my old B&W.
Along the lines of the other Macs, I was thinking while I was at work of using a G4 duel processor that goes up to 1.5 to 2 Ghz. Would that cost too much or not be worth it? If I remember right the G4 Graphite model had that ability with numorous upgrade options.
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Hi.
I am already using MBP 15" Late 2011.
It's about gaming at ultra settings. or medium settings.
I played this game, World Of Warcraft on MBP and it turns about to be 80. Celius temprature though it resist till 100. Celius, I really care for my Fans when they go to 6200 RPM. I really don't want to reduce my fans life and care for it.
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1. The Mac Pro 2.8 GHz model performs so well that it is difficult to justify paying 28% more for 7% of additional processor power in the case of the Mac Pro 3.0 GHz or 56% more for 14% additional processor power with the Mac Pro 3.2 GHz model. You might see a small 5-10% increase in performance when compressing video with the 3.2GHz model but it certainly would not be worth paying 50% more to me. In addition, Amazon has the 2.8 on sale for $2599 after an easy rebate:
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