So my PC died on me the other day...

[Alex]

...I had the Dell Dimension 8400 for at least 5 years. Still need to retrieve my latest work files from the hard drive (will work on that soon).

Anyway, for the first time ever I'm getting my very own Mac Pro. I'm stoked! Below are the specs. As for the monitor, I'm waiting for the new Apple 27" display to come out next month.

Does anyone know if I can connect my old 21" Dell LED display to my Mac Pro without any problems???

Apple Mac Pro:

Two 2.40GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Westmere"
8GB DDR3 ECC SDRAM (4X2GB)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Two 18x SuperDrives
Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad.

 

[Banjo]

You can connect a Mac to any monitor you wish to.

 

[JClarke]

You can connect a Mac to any monitor you wish to.

yes, Alex can as long he gets a special cord to convert the VGA cord to the mac. My father has his macPro hooked to a 22" monitor at work.

 

[Banjo]

yes, Alex can as long he gets a special cord to convert the VGA cord to the mac. My father has his macPro hooked to a 22" monitor at work.

24" monitor here.

 

[JClarke]

24" monitor here.

Nice, mine's 24" too - for work. Gotta love the splitView, lawl.

 

[Jiro]

I've been thinking of getting 13" MacBook Pro or Mac Mini :dunno

2.4Ghz and 2.66Ghz... is it that big deal of difference?

 

[Reba]

...I had the Dell Dimension 8400 for at least 5 years.

My condolences.

Anyway, for the first time ever I'm getting my very own Mac Pro. I'm stoked!

My congratulations!

 

[The Highlander]

yes, Alex can as long he gets a special cord to convert the VGA cord to the mac. My father has his macPro hooked to a 22" monitor at work.

New LED and new Mac don't use VGA anymore.

 

[The Highlander]

I've been thinking of getting 13" MacBook Pro or Mac Mini :dunno

2.4Ghz and 2.66Ghz... is it that big deal of difference?

Not much different but dual cores and quad cores are big difference.

 

[JClarke]

New LED and new Mac don't use VGA anymore.

There is a cord that can connect the external monitor to the other monitor.

 

[Jiro]

Not much different but dual cores and quad cores are big difference.

I suppose 2.4Ghz is plenty enough then

 

[JClarke]

I suppose 2.4Ghz is plenty enough then

Agreed

 

[sequoias]

About time that Alex got Mac.

I have a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini (late 2009) and love it!

Jiro, yes 2.4 GHz is plenty of speed for general use on the road.

 

[lovezebras]

mac=love

 

[The Highlander]

There is a cord that can connect the external monitor to the other monitor.

Mac Pro have dual DVI so no VGA.

I suppose 2.4Ghz is plenty enough then

Yes, 2.4 Ghz is pretty enough for you.

My Macbook is pretty fast for almost everything at 2.2Ghz. I wish I have money for 4GB then perfect for OSX and VMware Win 7 at same time.

 

[Foxrac]

I suppose 2.4Ghz is plenty enough then

Yup, especially if you are just causal gamer or not gamer.

 

[The Highlander]

Yup, especially if you are just causal gamer or not gamer.

I know he is not interesting for gamer then he is good to go.

 

[Jiro]

I know he is not interesting for gamer then he is good to go.

beside - what game is there for mac? I rather play it on PC.

 

[Jiro]

mac=love

what do you have?

 

[lovezebras]

I just have an aluminum macbook 13 inch I love it! I couldn't really justify gettin the Pro as I didn't really need it...Grace has 2 Macbook Pros. one for DJing and one for at home but they are the 17 inch macbooks