How to buy a Mac (and my setup!)
Posted on January 25th, 2009
Oh .. you think you already know? :) Read on….
It may seem quick and easy to just pick your next Apple Mac up directly from their website but many people don’t know you can get a much better deal by buying through a reseller such as Amazon. Not only are their prices better but currently Amazon are offering rebates which can save you a few hundred $$.
I thought I’d list out my hardware and directl purchase links for those who are interested. Let me start with the laptop, a must have at least for your first Mac purchase. There is a slightly cheaper version of this but I’d pay for the extra memory and speed – This link is the MacBook Pro 15″, 4 GB of Memory.
After that I decided that since I run a lot of virtual machines a laptop is never really going to be enough so I then went for a Mac Pro, the 8x Core XEON beauty and then added 10 GB of memory. Some of this was not purchased from Apple since their cost for memory and drives isn’t acceptable. I did still buy premium stuff and certified to work on those machines.
- Mac Pro, 8x Xeon
- 8 Gig Memory Kit (plus the 2 with the machine) give you 10 total
- 2x 500 GB SATA II, 3 GB, 72K11 storage drives
- 24″ Dell Monitor, a much better deal than a cinema display from Apple.
That workstation is definately the way to go. I can run 3-4 powerful virtual machines with several gigs of assigned memory with no performance lose what-so-ever! Not the cheapest setup in the world but definately a great working system.
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