New Mac Pro!!

I got a new Mac Pro dual 3ghz. I actually got it a while ago, but have been too busy to blog recently.

It's much faster than my old dual 2.5 G5. Not mind blowingly fast, but it's a huge improvement. Doing a full build on my old dual G5 with a dual 1.25 G4 set up as a distributed build machine took around 50 minutes. Now it takes about 15 minutes. I'm doing a lot less waiting and able to write more code.

The new Mac Pro is also much much quieter. The old G5 fans drove me nuts. Every time I hit "build" in XCode the fans would wind up like it was struggling to do the work. It was kind of stressful. I felt like I was hurting it every time I compiled.

I also love the new SATA drives. It's super easy to add additional hard disks. No jumpers to mess with, just pop it in and boot up.

Here's my current setup:

Dual Mac Pro 3ghz
3gb RAM
30" Cinema
23" Cinema
Wireless Keyboard and mouse
3 internal drives. 2 250s and a 160 SATA

The 30" is new. It makes a big difference, but I still wish I had 2 30" monitors. Maybe next year I'll upgrade my 23" to a 30".