I think there may have been some sarcasm involved in Gobots post.
Also, for all those saying that you can't spec a PC to the Mac for a comparable price, A little experimentation shows that you can get a T610 for about the same price/spec, all the important bits [dual nehelams, 6gb RAM, etc] minus the GPU [which you can add yourself, natch] but with space for eight hard drives, and support for RAID10.
I'd rather have the RAID10 and eight drive bays myself, but I can certainly see the appeal of the Mac Pro as a workstation platform, it's a nice bit of kit and as value for money goes, it really isn't bad at all given the design.
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I think there may have been some sarcasm involved in Gobots post.
Also, for all those saying that you can't spec a PC to the Mac for a comparable price, A little experimentation shows that you can get a T610 for about the same price/spec, all the important bits [dual nehelams, 6gb RAM, etc] minus the GPU [which you can add yourself, natch] but with space for eight hard drives, and support for RAID10.
I'd rather have the RAID10 and eight drive bays myself, but I can certainly see the appeal of the Mac Pro as a workstation platform, it's a nice bit of kit and as value for money goes, it really isn't bad at all given the design.
Is it VMware certified, though? ;-)
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