You might have remembered that I have been teasing everyone about a BIG unbxong coming soon. Well if you didn’t already know, yes that unboxing will be an Apple 8 Core Mac Pro. Now I know a lot of you might be asking What are you going to do with a Mac Pro? or I make more Youtube videos then you! Why should to get a Mac Pro? Well in this post, I will explain exactly why I purchased a Mac Pro.

First off before we start anything, I will give you guys the specs. Now as far as price goes, you can do the math. I was fortunate to obtain an Education Discount, but as far as the overall cost is concerned, I find the exact price more of a personal matter. If you care that much, do the math.

• Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
• 16GB (8x2GB)
• 640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
• 2x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
• Two 18x SuperDrives
• Apple Magic Mouse
• Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) and User’s Guide
• AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card with 802.11n
• Final Cut Express preinstalled
• AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro (w/or w/o Display) – Auto-enroll
• Microsoft Office 2008 Student Edition
• Free iPod Touch 8GB

So let’s explain some things

Q: Why a Mac Pro?

A: If you didn’t know, my main source of income is through video editing. I am the main “tech guy” at my school and I do all the video there. From Open Houses, to Special Events, so Sport Games, and even next year with our live morning productions, I do everything. I am editing a football game every weekend in the fall. The Mac Pro is defiantly going to allow me to speed of production time a lot more!

The Mac Pro is also going to allow me to expand to my dreams. If I want to add more RAM, I can. If I want to add another hard drive, I can do so easily. It is so, so convient. This computer will also drive me through college.

Besides all of that I have done the following: I have been Student of The Year ay my school 5 times, this year being my 5th. I just graduated the 8th grade. I also have great grades, straight A’s capping off the end off the year.

Q:Any Accessories?

The only physical accessories I am getting would be a Samsung 24″ LED monitor. I tried really hard to find my current monitor (Samsung Syncmaster 216BW) but couldn’t find it anywhere.

As far as software goes, I am getting Final Cut Express, and Microsoft Office 2008.

Q: Why do you buy your RAM from Apple? OWC and Crucial are way cheaper!

A: In retrospect I should not have ordered 16GB of RAM. I know that is overkill. But when you’re spending over $3k on a computer, Apple does yend to cut you some slack with the RAM.16GB was only $450.

Q: Why 2 Graphics Cards?

A: I am going to run dual monitors. This also gives me flexability to add up to 4 displays at once.

Q: Why not go for 2.66GHz?

A: Out of my budget.

Q: Why 2 Superdrives

A: Streamline Disc Burning. Basically I can burn 2 DVD projects at once by creating a disk image.

Q: Why did you get A wireless keybaord and Magic Mouse? Don’t you already have them?

A: Refer to my Macbook Answer.

Q: Why don’t you add more HDDs?

A: I have about 3TB of external space with FireWire drives. I also have a 500GB network drive.

Q:What are you doing with your Macbook?

A: The Macbook (Mid 2oo7 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM) will be immediately be sent off to “boot camp” Basically that machine is going to become my TV prodction machine as soon as the school year comes. Basically the ASB will be starting up a live announcements/news program every morning. As the “Geek in Charge” I’ll be bringing in the Macbook running Wirecast as the main backbone behind the project.

But as far as right now, it will get a clean install of Snow Leopard, and then probably just used, for once, as a laptop.

Q: Why go with a desktop?

A: After about 3 weeks of having my Macbook, I knew a laptop just wasen’t for me. Everything I do is done sitting down, typed out on my desk. My Macbook is connected to multiple drives, FireWire Cameras, and of course dual displays. I realized that made no sense for me to get another laptop, besides, the iPad is all I need as far as a laptop goes.

Q: Why are you wasting your money on Apple Care?

A: I thought the same way you did once. Careless, free, and thought I would NEVER need Apple Care. But I was direly mistaken as soon as my Macbook’s Logic Board failed. I payed the price, and forked over the $300 for the repair. It hurt, it hurt.

Q: Why did you get an iPod Touch?

A: It is free with the current promo. Im probably going to sell it.