Mac Pro On Its Way
Posted September 8th, 2006 @ 07:39pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The estimated ship date is October 6, 2006 and the estimated delivery date is October 16, 2006. I wonder if it'll actually take that long. I guess I can put off ordering my 4 GB RAM kit from RAMJet for awhile.
MAC PRO,CTO
3.00 GHz Quad Xeon
1GB 667 DDR2 FB DIMM ECC-2x512
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
2x16x SuperDrive DL
Airprt Extrm & BT 2.0+EDR
Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mse
Soon I'll have a dual 2.0 GHz G5 to sell.
Donate Life
Posted 09 Sep 2006 at 7:51am #
Damn that is quite a beast! And I thought I was cool, ordered a 20" iMac w/ 2GB yesterday. 😀
Posted 09 Sep 2006 at 1:01pm #
erik,
It might be interesting if you keep track of the fluctuation of the price of RAM between now and then, for a post when you get the gear, to let us know how much you saved by waiting six weeks or so for the RAM.
It seems I've already seen a couple of price drops on RAM for newer macs.; I imagine sometimes, the price gooses itself back up.
Posted 09 Sep 2006 at 6:58pm #
The ship date is so far out still due to the airport card. - The Mac Pros are using the new Airport Express Card and they're not shipping yet.
Posted 10 Sep 2006 at 7:35pm #
You should check out crucial for the RAM. They have great products and service. I just looked today using your link and the RAM from RAMJET was 1195 in a 4x1 config.
At crucial.com you can get 2x2 for 1100, a much better deal.
I'm not affiliated with crucial in any way except as a customer.
Here is the link:
crucial RAM Page for Mac Pro
Posted 10 Sep 2006 at 8:18pm #
For various reasons, not the least of which is a small discount I get from a deal I made with RAMJet many moons ago in addition to exceptional service, I prefer to order from RAMJet. 🙂 And RAM prices fluctuate. 10 days ago they were $899.
Posted 03 Mar 2026 at 10:03am #
It’s wild to think that consumer SSDs have been around since 1991, as the article mentions. I definitely didn't see one in the wild until much later! I clearly remember the massive jump in responsiveness when we finally moved from SATA to those PCIe SSDs around 2013.
I actually went through a big storage overhaul recently for a small home-office project. I was setting up a dedicated telephony server using an older small-form-factor PC. I added a 2-port network card https://serverorbit.com/network-devices/telephony/2-port to handle the dedicated voice traffic and swapped the old mechanical drive for a basic SSD. The difference in boot times for the PBX software was night and day. In the past, if the power flickered, it felt like an eternity for the phones to register again, but now it’s up and running in seconds. It just goes to show that even "standard" networking and telephony tasks benefit so much from that lower latency and faster throughput.
Since the article mentions 77% of gamers are on SSDs now, do you think we'll eventually see mechanical drives disappear entirely for home servers, or will HDDs always have a place for bulk storage?