New Mac Pro

[perrycho]

Well I received my New Mac Pro today and I ended up with the Apple raid card, 4 tb seagate hard drives and 16 gig of Crucial ram. This is my first apple machine and it is quite a learning curve for me.

I got it connected to my home windows network and exchange server and just loaded CS3 and aperture tonight. Even got mail connected to my work exchange. I am now copying about 225 gig of picture files that I have taken in the last 4 months on to my mac pro but that will take about 4-5 hours. Until then I wont have time to play with it but so far I quite l like my new baby.

After using windows for over 25 yrs it will be quite a change for me. So any tips from you guys would be much appreciated.

Perry

[Jerry Skrocki]

Congratulations on your new purchase! I converted to Mac about two years ago. The learning curve is minimal and you will be amazed at how intuitive (and forgiving) it is. One of the first things you will noticed about the Adobe applications (aside from being able to utilize more memory) is that the familiar gray background seems to be missing. The tools and palettes seem to float over your desktop background. This is their normal state on a Mac and you can toggle through the options to turn the gray background back on if you wish.

I just bought a new 15" MacBook Pro 2.5GHz myself and I'm finding the trackpad a little awkward to use having used a mouse or stylus for years.

[KaraSchaeffer]

Originally Posted by perrycho

Well I received my New Mac Pro today and I ended up with the Apple raid card, 4 tb seagate hard drives and 16 gig of Crucial ram. This is my first apple machine and it is quite a learning curve for me.

I got it connected to my home windows network and exchange server and just loaded CS3 and aperture tonight. Even got mail connected to my work exchange. I am now copying about 225 gig of picture files that I have taken in the last 4 months on to my mac pro but that will take about 4-5 hours. Until then I wont have time to play with it but so far I quite l like my new baby.

After using windows for over 25 yrs it will be quite a change for me. So any tips from you guys would be much appreciated.

Perry

Buy an AppleTV and transfer your DVDs onto that humungous harddrive (she says with an older 5gb crucial ram, 3.5 tb hard-disk.....)

Time machine sucks though.... it keeps crashing on us.

[Jerry Skrocki]

Originally Posted by KaraSchaeffer

Time machine sucks though.... it keeps crashing on us.

I had problems with Time Machine when I had it configured for a 500gig external hard drive connected via firewire 400. It seemed to bottleneck my system eventually resulting in an unrecoverable error. Since then I have installed a 1 tb Seagate Barracuda in one of the four internal drive bays.
Time Machine now functions flawlessly and totally in the background. I have no more spinning beach balls and no errors.

Jerry

[Martin_Doudoroff]

I'm having an excellent experience with Time Machine using a dedicated internal drive in my MacPro.

One small tip: use the view options (Command+j) in the Finder to crank the desktop icons to their largest possible size and make sure "show icon preview" is checked. The previews OS X renders for your pictures, text files and such can be quite handy.

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