Around the beginning of September, I purchased a new Apple Mac Pro for my home office. Since that time, I've been completely delighted with the performance and low-noise of this system. Without a doubt, Apple has a real engineering masterpiece in the Mac Pro.

The Daddy Mac™

• Apple Mac Pro
• Dual 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon 5150 Dual-Core Woodcrest Processors
• 4 GB (8 x 512 MB) Apple FB-DIMM Memory
• ATI X1900 XT PCI Express Video Card , 512MB GDDR3 RAM
• Apple 23" Cinema HD Display
• Apple Pro Keyboard
• Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB
• Epson Stylus Photo R2400 Printer
• Wacom Intuos3 6x9" Digitizer Tablet

I run a variety of operating systems on the Mac, but the main is OS-X 10.4.8. Under that, I run Parallels Desktop virtualization software and have virtual machines with Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 Server, and Fedora Core 5 Linux. That's the main reason for 4 GB of RAM in the system - it runs good with 2GB but more RAM is needed for simultaneous virtual machines. It's a shame RAM for the Mac Pro is still so expensive, otherwise I'd have 8 GB in there.

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