More 'Puter Death
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- harlequino
So in the wake of TheBlueOne's woes, it appears my desktop shit the bed last night. Been dreading this, as it's a nearly 6 year old G5 with a lot of mileage. Just wish it hadn't happened now in this chilly economic client, with a new baby, and blah blah. But I need to replace it asap, as it's my livelihood and deadlines don't care about this issue.
I need to run FinalCut, AE, and Cinema 4D (run them well) amongst other standard creative apps. I use these a lot, so I need some decent juice.
I'm weighing a MacBook Pro for around 3k, against a desktop Mac Pro for around 4k. the specs seem to be very similar, with the exception of memory expandability. Looks like the laptop maxes out at 4gig.
Am I missing anything??
Are there any limitations of the laptop I am not thinking of?
Gotta make a decision in the next 24 hours or so, and I really don't want to screw this this up.Thanks, I appreciate your input.
- Jaline0
I hope my system lasts that long.
- JazX0
It's not in the cards.
- Andrew_D0
I'm in the exact same situation. (My G5 would have turned 6 this Chrimbo) This I'm going to go for the $3k MBP option.
- TheBlueOne0
Last night my HP laptop developed a weird one pixel blue vertical line on it...it's like all my 'puters are dying...
- Puter Plague™harlequino
- "Puters Of Men"harlequino
- *puts plastic wrap over open computer outletslocustsloth
- madirish0
can you claim any % of this with your business, home owners, or renter's insurance?
- Josev0
My powerbook died on the the day after I had owned it for three years. I was IMing a friend about it's anniversary and it just powered down and has been silent ever since.
- harlequino0
@madirish
I don't believe so. It's a 6 year old machine, and I've changed policies a few times. However, you can bet I'll place whatever new machine under a special policy going forward.
However, maybe I can finagle some tax thing out of it.- I think new computers can be deducted as straight off expense now, rather than depreciated. So that's cool.boobs
- harlequino0
*bump
- CALLES0
i have some friends that run that and more in the macbook... just gotta mantain it well
- harlequino0
That's comforting, CALLES, thanks. Our other MacBook was acutally stolen in August. So a third option is to scale back the laptopn power just a bit, and buy a second mac book so my wife can have her own machine now too. Cost wise - in between laptop and tower cost.
- TheBlueOne0
So...the local repair shop has told me my hard disc is fried and they can't get any data at all off of it. I don't trust their data recovery skills though - so what data recovery service have anyone used and would recommend?
- harlequino0
DataRescue. Saved my bacon a few times.
- Chief0
unless you'll be doing a lot of work on the go, i'd definitely go with the macpro simply as it's 8-core as opposed to dual core. especially with C4D, the 8-core would be a lot faster. the new macbook pros are supposedly capable of addressing 8GB of ram, but it's something apple will have to fix in the next OSX update. i'd go with the mac pro regardless. i upgraded from my old 17" Powerbook to a mac pro and haven't regretted it for a second.
- 23kon0
my laptop is showing the blue screen of death and doing a disk check everyother time i startup :(
been thinking about a new one anyway (its an Acer PC).
its about 4 years old now. think it just needs a cleanup /defragnothing scarier than a comp seizing though.
a few years ago i had a tower that had two HD's.
one decided to start makign a noise like someone angle-grinding. lovely noise. the drive then welded itself seized!!
lost a LOT of stuff. not much fun
- horton0
i've linked to this article before... a good read for return buyers from the G3-4-5 era.
- harlequino0
How does refurb affected the warranty?
- harlequino0
good stuff to consider, thanks
