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1. #How to use mactracker to determine worth install
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3. #How to use mactracker to determine worth pro

#How to use mactracker to determine worth pro

However, the question is rather if this Mac Pro will perform equally or better than a recent iMac which could save me some money.

#How to use mactracker to determine worth upgrade

In my case it'll be an upgrade from a 1.67GHz PowerBook G4 from 2005 so no doubt things will fly in comparison. I'm considering the exact same machine (2009 model 2.66GHz quad-core) as the OP and also wonder about what I can expect. That is another advantage of the Mac Pro by the way, in addition to adding lots of RAM, you can optimize disk usage to give all pipelines maximum access instead of having them all compete for the one drive in the iMac.

I've taken care to add RAM and to keep the library and the Camera Raw cache on two of the other drive bays in the Mac Pro, and it's fine. I am using an even older Mac Pro as my main workstation with Lightroom and it's not fast, but it's fine. 8GB-16GB seems to be the going rate for photo editing these days.

#How to use mactracker to determine worth install

Since you can't install more than 6GB RAM in the iMac, a different Mac with a higher RAM limit probably would help you. Another indicator would be the Page Ins/Page Outs ratio in the System Memory tab of Activity Monitor if the Page Outs are closer to Page Ins than to zero then you don't have enough RAM. Yeah, that makes sense if your free RAM goes down that far. Sometimes it goes down to 10-30 MB and in that moment Mac is frozen. I was observing memory usage with FreeRAM application and usually there is 500MB - 1.5GB free RAM while using Aperture. I didn't think it would make big difference if I add 2 more GB of RAM :/ but I will try to upgrade RAM first. My Mac is version 8.1 and it can take up to 6GB of RAM. Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions. I suspect that with 16 GB of RAM, and maybe a second internal HD or SSD, you would notice a huge difference. That model supports 16 GB of RAM (single-CPU machine), and you can have up to four HDs or SSDs with full-speed SATA connections before you have to go to slower external connection methods like Firewire or USB. * Whether you make use of the extra internal expandability of the Mac Pro. * How many of your applications take advantage of quad cores. They list an (oversimplified) benchmark score of 8144 for it, versus one of 3728 for the older iMac.Īs to how much performance improvement you would see, I think that depends on two things: The only Mac Pro I can find in MacTracker that was available with a single 2.66 MHz quad-core CPU is the Mac Pro (Early 2009).

I would like to do some video editing too in future. I have opportunity to buy used Mac pro Xeon quad-core 2.66 GHz, 8GB RAM for fair price so I was wondering how much faster is that computer from the one I own now? Would I notice a big difference or is it not worth spending money on that one? MacTracker says that this model has two memory slots, and that while the official RAM limit is 4.0 GB, you can actually install 6.0 GB. This is probably an "iMac (24-inch Early 2008)" (iMac8,1). I have iMac24" Core2Duo 2.8GHz with 4GB RAM, Mountain Lion and latest Aperture which I use for editing Canon 5d mk2 RAW files and it is sooo slow!