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| Apple Mac Pro MA356LL/A Desktop (Two 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive) | 
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| Brand: Apple
Category: Personal Computer
Buy New: $2,639.83
Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 779
Media: Personal Computers
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 2.66
CPU Type: Intel Pentium II Xeon
Processors: 2
System Memory: 1000
Memory Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 42.4
Dimensions (in): 23.2 x 12.6 x 28.2
MPN: MA356LL/A
Model: MA356LL/A
UPC: 885909091843
EAN: 0885909091843
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Consider buying from Apple instead March 13, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I really love Amazon, but for this particular product, you really should get 2 GB of ram and the ATI grpahics card. Amazon doesn't offer anything but the base configuration. At the Apple store or other online retailers, you can totally customize it.
The extra GB of ram more than DOUBLES the speed on average compared to only 1GB!!
The ATI graphics card really improves speed for graphics intensive apps like Final Cut Pro or 3D apps.
I hope Amazon will add some configuration options in the future.
4 Stars for the configuration, 5 stars for the quality and ease of use!
Nirvana March 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This machine has completed by conversion to Mac. I bought a G4 laptop when my Gateway died a slow, deserved death. I was blown away by the quality of construction and the awesome power of the Mac OSX Tiger operating system. Finally a computer that worked out of the box.
The Mac Pro has completed my conversion. This machine is just a marvel of engineering achievement and OSX Tiger still blows Vista out of the water and OSX Leopard is due in June. Since it's Intel based, I can also run Windows XP for those programs for which there is currently no Mac equivalent. Oh, I forgot, Tech Support is provided by people for whom English is the primary language.
I had no idea a machine could be this FAST!! March 11, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
AMAZING!! Right out of the box the MAC PRO is a winner for all applications requiring the extra horsepower. Upgrading from an iMac G5, it's a Night and Day difference in rendering power for Final Cut Pro. It's just unbelieveable, what else can I say...WOW!! If you are debating on buying the new intel iMac 24" for any sort of video editing application, spend a little more for this and you won't be disappointed. And hey, the $[...] rebate is a nice incentive.
MacPro Xeon 2.66 February 13, 2007
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
It's the best and the most expensive desktop I ever have. It should come with more RAM on it. RAM is too expensive, 1 gb is $300 plus tax with 10% discount for student. Now I got 2 gb of RAM on it.
At long last, the Mac is the only computer to buy February 9, 2007
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
I was a Macintosh software engineer at Apple from 1987-1990 and a major Mac user until 1995, when I finally had to switch to Windows for business reasons (I develop corporate software and had to follow my customers to Windows). I've been in the Windows camp ever since... until now.
Faced with the expensive prospect of upgrading to Vista, and after receiving a compelling demo of a Mac running Windows from a good friend of mine, I started looking harder at the Intel-based Macs and came to the conclusion they're the only computer to buy today because you can truly have your cake + pie + donuts and eat them too (more on that in a minute).
Mac Convert has written an excellent review already and I second everything it says. The only difference is that I've been having excellent luck with Parallels, and it doesn't seem like beta software to me. I was able to replicate my high-end Sony Vaio workstation in Parallels, including its 1.5Gb of RAM and huge wide screen display, with no problems. And it blows my mind that I can use Visual Studio to build Windows software on the Mac even faster than I could on my PC. Everything just works flawlessly and frankly I didn't expect it to. It's just amazing.
With regards to cake + pie + donuts: with Parallels I can create multiple virtual machines on my Mac, each with a different OS if I want, and this has completely solved one of my biggest development problems, which is how do I develop and test my software on XP + Vista + Server 2003 without buying a ton of hardware? In Parallels I simply created a virtual machine for each and off I went. Now I can switch from a machine running XP, Visual Studio 2003 and .NET 1.1/2.0 to Vista, Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 3.0 just by clicking the mouse. Mind blowing.
Best of all, at long last I'll be able to make the most of my digital SLR and digital video recorder because I'll have access to all that cool Apple software for photos and video. I might even get my honeymoon video on DVD in time for my 5th anniversary next week! Every time I tried on my Vaio I'd crash the machine so I eventually gave up on that stuff in PC land. The Mac reopens these doors for me in a big way.
Putting Intel processors in the Macs is the smartest thing Apple has done in years - and for that reason buying a Mac is the smartest computer purchase you can make today. No matter what the Mac fanatics say we still live in a predominantly Windows world and it's awesome to be able to go both ways on the most beautiful and best-designed hardware on the market. Until recently you had to settle for either Mac OS or Windows, and neither one in isolation was ideal. Now that you can have both on the new Macs there's really no reason to buy anything else.
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