Mac Pro: Time for my own personal blogathon
Category: Apple/Mac OS...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 09:31 PM [GMT-6]

I just popped over to the online Apple Store and configured a Mac Pro Quad Xeon with the following upgrades:

  • 3GHz processors
  • 16 gigabytes of RAM
  • 2 terabytes internal hard drive storage via four 7200rpm Serial ATA 3gb/s drives
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 video card with 512MB of VRAM and Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
  • Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme wireless connectivity options

The total is just *cough* $12,128, plus sales tax and shipping.

Of course, if I'm going to get that NVIDIA card, I might as well spring for two 30" Apple Cinema Displays.

New total: $16,126.00.

Looks like I picked a bad day to close up the meth lab.

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Comments

business expense?? :-)

Posted by: kyle at August 8, 2006 09:39 PM

My tax bracket's not that high!

Posted by: Eric at August 8, 2006 10:02 PM

The thrill of overkill.

Posted by: Rob at August 8, 2006 11:25 PM

Blogathon 2007: Eric gets all his friends to blog for the "Eric Mac Pro Quad Xeon Computer Fund" ;)

Posted by: Denise at August 8, 2006 11:45 PM

You'll have to get going now if you are also funding the bloggers tour of NZ hehe.

Posted by: Rachel at August 9, 2006 12:27 AM

See now, if you'd just taken that client you mentioned earlier and charged him by the pop-up, well, you'd be able to afford this.

:)

Posted by: beth at August 9, 2006 06:56 AM

I think it's time for an intervention. ;-)

Posted by: Gwynne at August 9, 2006 07:57 AM

Beth beat me to it. You turned down a client during WWDC - what were you thinking! ;-)

Maybe if you back off the RAM and storage a little bit...

Posted by: Brian at August 9, 2006 08:32 AM

Maybe if you back off the RAM and storage a little bit...

What?! And cripple my machine! It's all or nothing, buddy...all or nothing!

(And, of course, at this point it's nothing.)

You'll have to get going now if you are also funding the bloggers tour of NZ

Rats. I forgot about that. I picked a bad week to give up bank robbery.

Blogathon 2007: Eric gets all his friends to blog for the "Eric Mac Pro Quad Xeon Computer Fund"

Denise, you sound like my kind of campaign manager! When can you start?

See now, if you'd just taken that client you mentioned earlier and charged him by the pop-up, well, you'd be able to afford this.

Darn ethics. Looks like I picked a bad week to give up...um...well, all I can think of are things that are too coarse for this audience.

Gwynne, I think that's a great idea! Let's charge, say, $500 a person for admission. Let's see, I need only about 32 people to show up, and I'm cured! ;-)

Rob, anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right?

Posted by: Eric at August 9, 2006 05:34 PM

Just to prove I did finally get to your blog today.

Posted by: Gene at August 9, 2006 07:57 PM

Ah, yes, but have you sent in your "New Mac For Me" pledge yet? ;-)

Posted by: Eric at August 9, 2006 08:25 PM
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