[Mihai]

Well right now you would come at about the same price as the Mac Pro, provided you don't buy the ram from them. So you'd buy the one with the 2.66ghz xeons, but only 512ram and buy the ram yourself and install it.

a 2.66ghz is about $700 now....motherboards quite expensive, need a good psu, case, graphics card, fans, hard drive...

So in the end, about the same price.


I'll do more searching for win 64, but apparently you can just plug in another harddisk, and install windows on it, no need for bootcamp even. So you can have two disks, one for osx and one for windows.

[deadalvs]

i asked againg my brother...

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...but apparently you can just plug in another harddisk...and install windows on it, no need for bootcamp even

no. doesn't work.

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to run properly on 64bit You would have to find every 64 bit driver for the exact piece of hardware that apple has built in. it really seems apple will stay 32 bit for longer, as i mentioned before also because of the better memory management.

i had the same idea, Mihai, but that won't be working.

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deadalvs

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[thomas lacroix]

anyway, apple system handle memory better than win so maybe no need for win64 ?

[firebird]

I calculated a pc with all apple components and you end up nearly at the same price, so the macs are really good value for money, although they have got their prices!

[deadalvs]

I calculated a pc with all apple components and you end up nearly at the same price, so the macs are really good value for money, although they have got their prices!

as ever before...

and without virus alerts...

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deadalvs

[michaelplogue]

Newegg has an excellent advanced search feature when you need to find very specific hardware...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... &maxPrice=

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[Thomas An.]

The MacPro is ultra sweet !

It has the most neat internal design/enigneering in any PC currently known and it has one of the most sweet price/performance ratios.

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2816

Note that the hand-made PC does not include a case, power supply, or an OS

[Mihai]

to run properly on 64bit You would have to find every 64 bit driver for the exact piece of hardware that apple has built in.

That's what I find confusing....what's left in a Mac, that's....Mac?

Besides keyboard and mouse, I guess you can get some pc keyboard and mouse and have drivers for them under win64. What I'm asking is, if you stick win64 in there, how does it know that's its not a usual PC?

The reason you can install windows (32) without going through bootcamp is because before even installing bootcamp you have to install a firmware upgrade which also enables you to hold down the option key at boot and choose which OS you want to boot. So no need for bootcamp in this case, and you can install win32 on a separate drive.

[aitraaz]

That's what I find confusing....what's left in a Mac, that's....Mac?

LOL, i guess Steve Job's benevolent spirit is all that remains inside...

[lllab]

"That's what I find confusing....what's left in a Mac, that's....Mac?"

..well i just got mine- a 2.66.

is IS mac!!! never seens something like this,
this looks so perfect and clean and pro, no cables, brushed metal, very,very solid...all my pc look like toys now...(but they arent of course)

cheers
Stefan