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My HP is officially kicked to the curb & my house is now Mac-a-licious!!!

 

This MacPro moves like a knife through hot butter & it is coming in handy because I usually have at least 5 programs running at once (Photoshop, Parallels, DreamWeaver, Illustrator & Adobe Bridge), not to mention Mail, iTunes & Fire Fox. Yes, I’m a serious muti-tasker & having 2 19” monitors mos def helps!

 

The only thing that suffered during my total transition to the Mac platform was my Canon flatbed scanner (Canoscan NI2140U), which is 7 years old. It does not work with the new Mac OS, which I found out during a 25 minute call to Canon customer service. So off to Best Buy, I “had” to run for a replacement (Canoscan LiDE 600F). The funny thing is that, my old scanner outlived 4 PC’s & at least 3 printers.

 

OK, OK, I know you are bored so this will be the last toy photo that I post in a while. They are just so easy & fun to shoot & best of all, they don't talk back!

 

Strobist Info: 1 SB 600 @ 1/32 @ 60º bouncing off ceiling to the left of subject & 1 SB 600 @ 1/16 @ 60º bouncing off ceiling to the right rear of subject.

Magpie Inkcap (Coprinopsis picacea) at Wepham Wood, Angmering, West Sussex England

I was curious, so even before I hooked up my new Mac Pro, I opened it up to see what things looked like. It'll never be this clean again.

New to me, Mac Pro 5,1

Fairly well spec'ed considering its age, mid 2012.

 

I've had the case at the rear of the first picture for a while. I still intend to convert it to an ATX PC build when I have the time.

 

2 x 3.46Ghz 6 Core Xeon 5690

32GB Ram

120GB SSD

1TB NVME via a PCIe card

2 x 6TB 7200 drive

1 x 4TB 7200 drive

XFX RX570 XXX 8GB

USB 3/C PCIe card

 

Running macOS 11 Big Sur via OpenCore

 

I just need to update the Bluetooth and Wifi cards to enable handoff/airplay/continuity now

Marbled White Butterfly (Melanargia galathea) on the Folkestone Downs, North Downs of Kent England

Earpick Fungus (Auriscalpium vulgare) as seen during the 26th October 2014 Fungus Foray at Winkhurst Wood, Bough Beech Nature Reserve, Kent Wildlife Trust near Sevenoaks, Kent England

Slender Tree Frog (Litoria adelaidensis) in our garden, Huntingdale WA Australia

 

more of our little frog in the garden, seen only at night and seems to be playing to the camera

Adelaide, South Australia

poodlewalks: here and here

For the overly curious...

 

Basic Machine:

3.00 GHz Quad Xeon

4GB 667 DDR2 FB DIMM ECC-4x1GB

ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB

500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive

500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive

500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive

500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive

2x16x SuperDrive DL

Airport Extreme & BlueTooth 2.0+EDR

 

Displays:

2 Apple 23" Cinema Displays

Australian Hobby (Falco longipennis) at Sutherlands Park, Huntingdale WA Australia

 

Our Australian holiday, day 5

Jersey "Loose-Flowered" Orchid (Anacamptis laxiflora) at Wakehurst Place, Kew, near Ardingly, West Sussex England

 

Introduced species

Vera working on the web app design for Placethings

 

Placethings is a locative media and social mapping platform developed by students and faculty in MobileLab at UT Dallas. Sign up for the beta here: www.placethings.com

Military Orchid (Orchis militaris) at Homefield Wood, Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT, near Marlow, Buckinghamshire England

MacPro2,1 next to MacPro5,1.

 

The Mac Pro on the left is a 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. The Mac Pro on the right is a 2 x 2.4 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon with a 512GB Apple SSD, making it the most powerful in our studios when the picture was taken. Core and Accel cards for Pro Tools HD have been switched into the new one. They're a tight fit.

 

The logic board finished in matt black on the new one is rather swish, though I have no idea what 'BIG FRANK' and 'LITTLE FRANK' do; but they're labelled.

Rounded Earthstar (Geastrum saccatum) photographed while walking the South Downs National Park from Steyning Bowl to Cissbury Ring, near Findon, West Sussex England

My desk. Hello Mac Pro "Nehalem". The Appenzeller slate-top table was made by Sacha's cousin as his final project in cabinetry/joinery school.

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly (Aglais urticae) along the South Downs, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England

Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) at RSPB Medmerry, near Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex England

Purple Jellydisc (Ascocoryne sarcoides) at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, Kent Wildlife Trust, in Sevenoaks, Kent England

Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena) at Sugarloaf Rock, Naturaliste WA Australia

 

exploring the Cape Naturaliste and Margaret River regions on the 9th day of our Aussie Holiday

Todd finding out what its like to use a real computer.

Dune Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis dunensis) at Alyn Waters Country Park, Wrexham, Wales

Greater Tongue Orchid (Serapias lingua) at Wakehurst Place, Kew, near Ardingly, West Sussex England

 

Introduced species

Upright Coral (Ramaria stricta), at Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve NNR, near Lavant, West Sussex England

This month's desk (I am quite sure we'll see a new desk in a week or a few, as WWDC is coming up and other fun trips...)

 

Wallpaper is my own: Space Fold. Figures... well, check out the notes for the figures :)

Gatekeeper Butterfly (Pyronia tithonus) along the South Downs Way, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England

Red Cracking Bolete (Boletus chrysenteron) at RSPB Farnham Heath near Millbridge Farnham, Surrey England

I spent a whole day at Apple Store for 100 questions to make decision to buy this product. I had a lunch break ih the process. Now I am unpacking the box.

the system is now running on a SSD drive:

OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5 SATA III MLC

 

and the RAID 10 consists of four

Seagate Barracuda XT - 3TB 7200rpm 64MB 3.5 SATA III

 

also the graphic card got pimped to a

Apple Radeon HD5770, 1GB GDDR5

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