New Mac
Nathan Beaman
I finally broke down and bought a new mac this past week, even though I can feel new ones (hopefully with bluray) around the corner. It seems so silly to make a purchase like this so close to the wwdc but I couldn’t wait any longer.
Just finished installing Final Cut Studio 2 - blazingly fast - 35 minutes for the whole kit-and-kaboodle
Put the computer together for about $5600 including shipping and all miscelaneous fees, an equivalent setup from straight from apple would have been about $10,147.
3.0ghz 8 Core MacPro
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 512MB
(2) Superdrives
Airport and Bluetooth
(1) 500 GB Drive
(3) 750GB Drives
(2) 24″ Monitors
14GB RAM
Total including shipping = $5681.31
I just finished shooting a feature in NH for the past month, I had everything shipped there and paid no sales tax. An additional savings of $450 based on my states sales tax.
I was so pumped that I saved so much by assembling it myself so I went a little crazy with other bits and pieces.
Blackmagic Design MultibridgePro
Blackmagic Design HD Link Pro
30″ Cinema Display (for 2k Monitoring)
All necessary cabling to make everything connect.
Total with Tax and Overnight Shipping = $4,275.32
Grand Total = 9,956.63
Not bad at all.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 am
$5,700!! That’s a sick setup! I’m spec’ing my new MacPro setup and can’t get anywhere near that price-point. Are you ordering all the “extra” components from electronic reseller?
I’m feeling like a 30″ is a must for me right now, and Blackmagic equipment makes even more appealing (but more $$$). Hope everything goes well together. New reader and I love the blog!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I’ll post all the details soon.
The 30″ is nice, but quite frankly the Apple Display is the bottom of the barrel as far as specs go in 30″ monitors.