Soldato
Give me a DVD to test, I'll run handbrake with some of the defaults and we'll see how it runs. But from what I've seen its more that you can run multiple instances at the same time which is where the machine really shines
They really are a lovely machine, PAC. I forgot to mention but plugging everything into the back of the machine (even ethernet) makes a reassuring 'clunk'. Inserting a hard drive is laughably easy.
I had to break apart my RAID0 array last night because you can't install Boot Camp if the StartUp disk is raided - that sucked quite lot as the array was lightening.
Installing Windows at the moment and will be installing games thereafter should all go well, but I think I'm going to have to buy a Gaming box at some stage - I did want to split the 320gb drive and have XP and Vista each way, but Boot Camp won't allow that. I could install another drive but I want the last bay to be a backup drive that covers the other 3 drives - so it messes up my plans.
Regardless, the Mac Pro is a lovely machine and it will get my main usage of everything barring gaming - I just wish Apple would make Boot Camp a bit more gaming / high-end friendly. I inevitably didn't know about these limitations until it came to installing Windows last night, my own fault but I assumed it 'would just work'.
I will bench shortly when I get everything to how I like it - RAM arrived this morning so will install that also.
Slogan can you or anyone here tell me if the CPU is upgradable i.e. not soldered to the motherboard anymore?
4 internal SATA 2
So not only do they cost a fortune they require a special low-fat, high fibre diet consisting of mainly complex carbohydrates.
Gaming has gone pretty well so far. I've only really tested out Medal of Honor: Airborne and Call of Duty 4. Both run pretty well on 1440x900 with medium to high settings. Anything above that and the fps gets cut up.