Impulse Fire911
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Hello, so recently my friend bought a MACpro for about 8000 dollars. now, during this time i kept trying to cinvince that wasting that much money is soo useless that he could build a PC server for about half that much with the same performance.
NOW, according to my knowledge the MAC pro uses the same CPU a PC server would the "Nehalem Quad core server CPU" yes? so in no way is this an only product of mac and in no way is it "optimized" for mac only. however my friend would strongly dissagree. and he thinks mac for whatever thinks that its better on a MAC than PC.
my main argument was that it was a PC server with OSX installed on it. im pretty sure the other hardware might be more optimized but he only has 8 GB RAM and 3 HDD's in RAID 0 along with a 24 ich mac screen which cost another 900 dollars (i know right)
so all that equals 8000 nothing else changed.
i wanna know if my argument is correct or not.
im pretty sure this is not MAConly:
Newegg.com - Intel Xeon W5580 Nehalem 3.2GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Server Processor - Processors - Servers
NOW, according to my knowledge the MAC pro uses the same CPU a PC server would the "Nehalem Quad core server CPU" yes? so in no way is this an only product of mac and in no way is it "optimized" for mac only. however my friend would strongly dissagree. and he thinks mac for whatever thinks that its better on a MAC than PC.
my main argument was that it was a PC server with OSX installed on it. im pretty sure the other hardware might be more optimized but he only has 8 GB RAM and 3 HDD's in RAID 0 along with a 24 ich mac screen which cost another 900 dollars (i know right)
so all that equals 8000 nothing else changed.
i wanna know if my argument is correct or not.
im pretty sure this is not MAConly:
Newegg.com - Intel Xeon W5580 Nehalem 3.2GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Server Processor - Processors - Servers
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Intel Q9650 @ 3.0 Ghz
- Motherboard
- ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Motherboard
- Memory
- 8 Gb XMS Corsair DDR2 @ 800 MHZ
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI HD 4870 1GB
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 23 inch ACER monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- Single Hitachi 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA
- PSU
- 750 watt Corsair
- Case
- CoolerMaster HAF 932 Mini Tower Case
- Cooling
- Thermaltake V1 Cpu cooler 3 case fans
- Mouse
- Dell standard
- Internet Speed
- 10 MBPS