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well today, I went down to my local Comp USA to try out a Mac pro. They rep
showed me a Mac Pro (quad) Dual -Dual core Intel..
It came with:
-250 Sata-300mb
-a good selection of I/O
-optical audio i.o..Nice (more on this later)
-DVD/RW.
-Space to add 4 more drives..

They had it running apple's boot-camp, so I was able to boot into Win Xp
pro.

Verdict:
I am very impressed with this unit. The speed and efficiency that it ran
Win-Xp pro was as smooth and fast as I ever seen.

The Apple rep : explained to me the me that the on-board audio (via the optical
i/os) were capable of of 24/94 bit sample rate with a very respectable latency
via the use of Audio units drivers. And the S/N rating ranks the on-board
audio interface right up there with best of them. I played a few songs from
a cd I brought to test. The mac Pro had a decent pair of M-audio monitors.
Man, the audio was professional. The only need that I can see someone needed
another audio interface is to add I/o..And it stands, if you only need 2
inputs, then the on-board sound interface will more than suffice.

On the Os-x side of things, I have to say that I've never, read NEVER :)
seen Os-X run this fast!!! :) On previous macs, Os-x always felt a bit like
"a Cheetah stuck in the quick sand"..

Now, on these intel -multi-core cpus, this is just wan t the Dr needed. Smooth
and blazing fast.
hey did not have Logic Audio loaded, but ehy had Final-cut pro, so I ran
it thru it's paces and load up 30 or so wav files from Soundrac pro... Smooth,
with video, plus I was on Saffari dancing on the internet..
Impressed indeed..

Now, for the Cherry on top: All this power for $2499.00..Yep..
Now, those of you who has dabbled into building your DAW, you know how much
building a Dual-Dual core Opteron 285(and above) can be..let me just say..
It'll cost more than the this Mac..

Summary:
Apple is finally figued it out. hey have a Machine hat can out gun he best
PCs/Workstations available, and they can run both OS_X and Win Xp/pro.
For me, a former Logic Audio user who swore when Apple closed it's door on
the Windows platform, that I'd never buy another apple machine nore product..
Well, let's just say, "Let the healing begin"..
I can now have my Logic Audio (Albeit, cost way too much IIMHO)..hey, let's
face it, it's not as cool or as powerful as Cubase 4, butIt still have that
"one of a kind" midi sequencer that's "Tighter" than my beloved MPC..
And, i can re-boot into windows to run Nuendo, Cubase, V-Stack, or even,
shall I say Paris(via, a Magma PCI/E -PCI ) expander..

So, skys the limit for all new Mac Pro studios.
Rumor from the Apple rep: Look for a native version of OS-X to run on any
PC.??????Humm..

Now, things are really heating up..
The MAc Pro Will be my next DAW purchase for 2007..

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