What kind of specs do I need? Please help!

hello, i am planning on finally making the change to a mac, and I need some help. I want to buy a mac pro but I need to know the specs I should get with it while a make it. I am planning on doing computer graphic design using programs such as cinema 4d, CS5 master collection, etc. And I will also be doing a quite a bit of computer programming, making, designing programs using xcode and such.
I am eventually going to run dual monitors. What kind of specs should I get, keeping a decent budget in mind, aka, what is the cheapest specs that would allow this to work at a good speed. Then I can upgrade from there.
Thanks so much, any imput is very helpful!
Tim

You can do software development on anything.
For CS editing and movies, MHz matters more than number of processors, The "base" Mac Pro system come with a nominal four processors, but each can do multi-threading so it often seems like eight.
You will need more memory. Avoid pageouts as much as possible by adding more real memory when indicated. Use the Terminal:
vm_stat
... command and look for non-zero pageouts. Any sign of pageouts means you are so short of real RAM that you have to endure writing out a modified block just to page in something needed more.
You should have multiple fast drives. A fast source drive AND a fast destination drive. A separate small System/Applications-only drive, possibly on a fast velociraptor or SSD can also speed things up.

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