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MAC PRO Gurus: Need to Boot Camp, Do I buy 32 bit or 64 bit
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<blockquote data-quote="kmcghee" data-source="post: 1484126" data-attributes="member: 288896"><p>Hi, first time poster, long time viewer.</p><p></p><p>I have an early 2009 Mac Pro, at least I bought it Jan 2009. Beleive it is a Quad Core Xeon. Don't know the exact details right now (get home from vacation tomorrow)</p><p></p><p>I need to run Boot Camp because I run a CAD/CAM program for work and I like to work at home sometimes (designing stuff for me (I have a 4 axis CNC mill to play on). </p><p></p><p>So right now I have Boot camp and windows XP installed. I need to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8 to run the latest versions of the software and I also understand that windows XP only runs one processor and since I have two, upgrading would give me extra processing power (assuming my feeble understanding of computers is true)</p><p></p><p>So my questions are:</p><p></p><p>1.) How do I tell what bit system I can run? </p><p>2.) I heard there can be compatibility issues with hardware such as my Mac keyboard?</p><p>3.) If I can run either Bit versions do I get the 32 bit version or 64bit (since I only know the</p><p> 32 bit version as it is all I have ever used). </p><p></p><p></p><p>Also if anyone can help me, how do I know what ram to buy, I intend to purchase more ram for it (only have 2, I spent my money on the video card instead when I bought it) and plan to buy it from here <a href="http://www.canadaram.com/apple_mac_pro.htm" target="_blank">Canada RAM sells memory in Canada - Apple Mac Pro Penryn 4-Core and 8-Core, Dual intel Xeon, Quad Workstation</a></p><p></p><p>I know it is a Xenon processor. but which one, the website lists two. early 2009-2010 or Jan 2008-Mar 2009. Since I bought mine in a time frame that could fit either I am at a loss.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sorry if this is posted elsewhere I did a search first and could find nothing that answered my questions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kmcghee, post: 1484126, member: 288896"] Hi, first time poster, long time viewer. I have an early 2009 Mac Pro, at least I bought it Jan 2009. Beleive it is a Quad Core Xeon. Don't know the exact details right now (get home from vacation tomorrow) I need to run Boot Camp because I run a CAD/CAM program for work and I like to work at home sometimes (designing stuff for me (I have a 4 axis CNC mill to play on). So right now I have Boot camp and windows XP installed. I need to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8 to run the latest versions of the software and I also understand that windows XP only runs one processor and since I have two, upgrading would give me extra processing power (assuming my feeble understanding of computers is true) So my questions are: 1.) How do I tell what bit system I can run? 2.) I heard there can be compatibility issues with hardware such as my Mac keyboard? 3.) If I can run either Bit versions do I get the 32 bit version or 64bit (since I only know the 32 bit version as it is all I have ever used). Also if anyone can help me, how do I know what ram to buy, I intend to purchase more ram for it (only have 2, I spent my money on the video card instead when I bought it) and plan to buy it from here [url=http://www.canadaram.com/apple_mac_pro.htm]Canada RAM sells memory in Canada - Apple Mac Pro Penryn 4-Core and 8-Core, Dual intel Xeon, Quad Workstation[/url] I know it is a Xenon processor. but which one, the website lists two. early 2009-2010 or Jan 2008-Mar 2009. Since I bought mine in a time frame that could fit either I am at a loss. Sorry if this is posted elsewhere I did a search first and could find nothing that answered my questions. [/QUOTE]
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