Just kidding dilbert, because for years the plug&play philosophyhad been one of the mantras of the mac-addicted! Leaving jokes apart, i can bring you my own experience during the last 8 years of my life with macs, and i haven't spent one single day during this years regretting for using them. Not once. No hardware faults, no need of one of those "men of the computer" ever sit at my desk, even from the very beginning. Now i own a MacbookPro, one quad MacPro and one octa MacPro and i couldn't be happier. Reliability and ease of use have been already talked about, as well as how smoothly these machines run (i work with both thw towers running on my desktop, 1m from my face and showing me the back, and i almost can't hear them), but talking again about money, just consider this: with the Octa i have 8x2,8Ghz=22,4Ghz and it costed me 2.750€ with 4GB RAM. I believe that the price/Ghz ratio is amazingly low, don't you think so? 
he he... the way you say that...Voidmonster wrote:Hervé, another reason I wouldn't go with the Boxx machine is that I know folks who worked for them.
Their stories do not inspire confidence.
How much faster (for maxwell) is the octo core over the quad? I've got a quad and thinking of buying same mac as Herve... is it worth it?Mattia Sullini wrote:It's so funny to read something talking about the fact that would be easier to plug and play a Win machine!
Running benchwell, i got a bench of 1023, while running it with my other macpro 2x2x2,66 i got something like 493...so it seems that maxwell can take full advantage of the whole computing power. The octa is surely worth the buy, getting twice the power of the quad for a relatively small amount of money (450 € for the 2,8 Ghz version)w i l l wrote: How much faster (for maxwell) is the octo core over the quad? I've got a quad and thinking of buying same mac as Herve... is it worth it?
press the 'clear' button while on the windows side (it's the button that's in the same position as the 'number lock' button on a PC keyboard)Hervé wrote:... my keyboard works, but I am missing the right side (num), but I am sure I will find a way..
It's not you, it's just my awful english. I meantw i l l wrote:Mattia Sullini wrote:?w i l l wrote: (450 € for the 2,8 Ghz version)
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