Mac Pro - Advice wanted please :)

Adam · Adam #1 (**permalink**)

06-12-2007, 07:20 AM

Hi guys and girls!

I'm looking at replacing some different bits and bobs with a Mac Pro and wondered what people would recommend and if anyone knows of any good places to get refurbished Macs in the UK?

I currently have a mac mini acting as a test webserver, phone machine, and itunes server. I also have a Lacie MiniDisk ethernet backup drive which my MBP backs up to daily, I do site backups to it and it stores my itunes library.

I want to get a Mac Pro to do it all in one and for me to use as my day to day machine. I get a little bit sick of having to plug everything in and out of my MBP depending on whether I'm working at the desk or not. Lazy I know but there you have it.

I know I don't need a top of the range Mac Pro - same will say I probably don't need one - but don't know what to look at.

I use the following apps sometimes all open at once

1. Dreamweaver
2. Photoshop (CS2)
3. Fireworks
4. llustrator
5. Safari / Firefox / Opera
6. Neoffice
7. Cyberduck
8. Parallels running XP whihc has IE6 / IE7 open
9. Adium
10. other little bits and bobs.

Thanks for any advice or recommendations,

Adam

MAC-simus · MAC-simus #2 (**permalink**)

06-12-2007, 07:45 AM

I'd go for iMac 24" or if you already have a nice monitor, the mac pro 4x2GHz will give you all you need. get some more RAM as well.

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Adam #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 13, 2006 Location: UK Posts: 284 Mac Specs: Mac Pro 2 x 2.26 Quad, 6GB DDR3, iPhone 4	06-12-2007, 07:20 AM Hi guys and girls! I'm looking at replacing some different bits and bobs with a Mac Pro and wondered what people would recommend and if anyone knows of any good places to get refurbished Macs in the UK? I currently have a mac mini acting as a test webserver, phone machine, and itunes server. I also have a Lacie MiniDisk ethernet backup drive which my MBP backs up to daily, I do site backups to it and it stores my itunes library. I want to get a Mac Pro to do it all in one and for me to use as my day to day machine. I get a little bit sick of having to plug everything in and out of my MBP depending on whether I'm working at the desk or not. Lazy I know but there you have it. I know I don't need a top of the range Mac Pro - same will say I probably don't need one - but don't know what to look at. I use the following apps sometimes all open at once 1. Dreamweaver 2. Photoshop (CS2) 3. Fireworks 4. llustrator 5. Safari / Firefox / Opera 6. Neoffice 7. Cyberduck 8. Parallels running XP whihc has IE6 / IE7 open 9. Adium 10. other little bits and bobs. Thanks for any advice or recommendations, Adam
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Member Since: Jan 08, 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 442 Mac Specs: 2GHz C2D macbook	06-12-2007, 07:45 AM I'd go for iMac 24" or if you already have a nice monitor, the mac pro 4x2GHz will give you all you need. get some more RAM as well.
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