Dual 2 plus:
2x250GB disks
9800 Pro
23" Cinema HD display
Wolf 3D
Final Cut Express
Total £ 4,534.24 (UK pounds incl 17.5% VAT)
I'll add more RAM from crucial.com/uk
Ordered: 5 Aug
ETA: on or before 10 Oct :(
I'm going from a Ti Book 500 to the dual 2 GHz beast. It's more bang than I need right now, but while I've got the bucks...
Remember that when the dual 3.0's come out, the dual 3.5 - 4.0 will be "just around the corner". The top of the line model will never stay on top for more that 6 months.
To stripe drives together they should be the same size. Preferably the same make/model. If I were you I'd put the 160GB on the internal bus (use as boot disk) and stripe the 2 120GB disks on the sonnet card.
Remember that when you stripe you get better performance at the expense of a...
I doubt that there will be much, if any, public warning when macs start shipping with a new CPU. I would kill the sales of the existing units in the distribution channels.
However, apple will have to notify developers that their products may need a recompile or whatever to run on any new CPU's...
Hopefully someone with some clout in the unix world (like Sun) will come out with a cheap storage (RAID) product that utilises Fw800 rather that (I think) more expensive fibre and SCSI.
I guess this is why Apple have delayed their own RAID for the Xserve...
I like the 17", but won't look at buying one until after the next Macworld. Let them iron out any bugs (remember the battery problem with the original TiBook?).
Who knows? Maybe by then they'll have dual 64bit CPU's. It is wide enough!