I know…I know, I have debated typing this post for a week now, but I gotta get it out in the open. I am not happy with my MacPro. I dont want to come across as arrogant, or even ungrateful. I worked hard to afford this machine and I spent ALOT of money on it.
My first mac—the one I was using primarily before buying the MacPro—was a 17" powerbook w/1gig of ram. It got me through 2 grueling years of graduate studies in visual communication. I still own it.
My MacPro has 2 gig's of ram, 3.0Ghz dual-core's and a 500GB drive…everything else is standard options aside from a second superdrive.
I thought I was buying a super–computer, I know I payed for a supercomputer at least. I opened it and set it up with the greatest of care, plugged in my cinema display and booted it up…giddy, like a little kid on christmas. This machine smelled like a new pair of nike's (does anyone elses smell this way?) it was an amazing experience.
Fast forward a month. When I was shopping around and looking for the best set–up, I was told that 4GB of ram was overkill…hence the 2GB in my machine. I know there are issues with Rosetta and Adobe right now and that is why CS runs slow and quite unstable. I can deal with it till CS3. But the native app's…iMovie, Garageband, etc., they open lighting fast but it doesn't take much to bog them down. In fact a quite simple iMovie project I was doing made this machine very sluggish and iMovie crashed numerous times. I have a background in music production, but did most of my work in Cubase on a PC, so I imagined Garageband would run like a dream on this "super–computer". Wrong……10 tracks w/ alot of effects and again, Mac isn't acting so Pro. I used to run 40 tracks w/ complex automation and effects routings on my PC and this was technology from 5 years ago. I'll quit my ranting, and ask the members here.
Did I expect too much? Are the app's the fault? Do I need to run some benchmarks tests and post the results? How do I make this thing faster? RAID? More RAM? Graphics card upgrade?
I still love it the thing, I still dust it off everyday, and maybe talk to it once in a while.....
advice?
My first mac—the one I was using primarily before buying the MacPro—was a 17" powerbook w/1gig of ram. It got me through 2 grueling years of graduate studies in visual communication. I still own it.
My MacPro has 2 gig's of ram, 3.0Ghz dual-core's and a 500GB drive…everything else is standard options aside from a second superdrive.
I thought I was buying a super–computer, I know I payed for a supercomputer at least. I opened it and set it up with the greatest of care, plugged in my cinema display and booted it up…giddy, like a little kid on christmas. This machine smelled like a new pair of nike's (does anyone elses smell this way?) it was an amazing experience.
Fast forward a month. When I was shopping around and looking for the best set–up, I was told that 4GB of ram was overkill…hence the 2GB in my machine. I know there are issues with Rosetta and Adobe right now and that is why CS runs slow and quite unstable. I can deal with it till CS3. But the native app's…iMovie, Garageband, etc., they open lighting fast but it doesn't take much to bog them down. In fact a quite simple iMovie project I was doing made this machine very sluggish and iMovie crashed numerous times. I have a background in music production, but did most of my work in Cubase on a PC, so I imagined Garageband would run like a dream on this "super–computer". Wrong……10 tracks w/ alot of effects and again, Mac isn't acting so Pro. I used to run 40 tracks w/ complex automation and effects routings on my PC and this was technology from 5 years ago. I'll quit my ranting, and ask the members here.
Did I expect too much? Are the app's the fault? Do I need to run some benchmarks tests and post the results? How do I make this thing faster? RAID? More RAM? Graphics card upgrade?
I still love it the thing, I still dust it off everyday, and maybe talk to it once in a while.....
advice?