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That’s pretty cool. I’ll have to look into the new mac pros soon.

There is one reason for the high end video cards… people such as GranitW (a community member) and other people that do work with high end rendering software will benefit from them due to Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Express, and some other mac software that does rendering uses the video card to do alot of the work and say the geforce 8800 card would save lots of time with a serious render.

Just my 2 bytes

Wait a week. Apple will almost certainly announce a bunch of HD-related stuff next week, so blu-ray support will be a lot clearer then.

Personally, I’d ditch the SAS drives; for $2150 you could buy 4x 10k RPM SATA Raptors ($700 total) and RAID 1+0 them, and then buy an extra 16 GB from OWC for $800-$1550, depending on which of their choices you go with. That’ll almost certainly give you a faster system for less money. If you decide that you really, really want to do SAS, consider buying one of Areca’s cards (bootable on Mac Pros) and using a cheap external enclosure. I’ve seen 4-drive SATA/SAS enclosures that aren’t particularly pricy. That’ll probably end up saving you money, and you can do it at any time, so you don’t have to decide up front. Plus, that’ll let you mix SATA and SAS, so you can throw a big drive or two into the system for Time Machine.

Personally, I don’t know what you’d do with 2×30″ screens, but whatever. Al Gore seems to use 3 of them, so I guess it’s possible. I swapped 2×24″ Dells for 1×30″ HP and I’m pretty happy, although I’d swap for 1×36-40″ if they were available on the market at a high enough resolution.

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