![]() ![]() I really thought it was a key feature for pro users.) ![]() (I wasn’t trying to “cherry-pick” a glitch in Dell’s video-card offerings, I promise. ![]() #DELL PRECISION 490 VIDEO CARD UPGRADE MAC#Knowing a good number of designers-the kind of people likely to buy a Mac Pro-who use such a setup, my reaction was, “But that’s a major feature!” And so I configured the Dell with the least expensive card that could do it. This was one of those judgment calls: When configuring the machines, I was surprised to find that none of Dell’s less expensive video cards would support both dual- and single-link simultaneously in other words, they can’t drive a 30-inch display along with a second display at the same time. The Quadro FX 3450 I stuck in the Dell provides significantly better performance than the GeForce 7300GT found in the stock Mac Pro, and the Quadro’s $525 price increased the Dell’s price unfairly (although not nearly by $1000+, as some claimed). The video card you used in the Dell was much better-and much more expensive-than the one in the Mac Pro. After that, I’ll do a few more Dell/Mac Pro comparisions, including a bit of “upgrade matching.” Common complaints With that said, let’s run through some of the most common feedback I received, along with my responses. (That still required a few minor tweaks to the Mac Pro-for example, the amount of RAM-to make a fairer comparison, but we left as much alone as we could.) And I was careful to explain the ways in which each system was superior to the other, given my configuration choices. But to paraphrase my boss, the point of the article was not to configure one, then the other, then back to the first one, then back to the other, until we’ve got something that’s “comparable.” Rather, it was to take Apple’s “standard configuration” Mac Pro and configure a Dell system to match it as closely as possible. Could I have configured the systems more closely? Sure. To do so, I had to make some configuration decisions-otherwise I’d have to write about five millionĪrticles, each with different sets of configurations, and I’m afraid my hard drive just isn’t big enough for that. ![]()
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