My Mac Pro arrived today. It’s pretty awesome. The first time I opened the cpu panel (after installing CHUD), I thought it was broken. I had all my normal stuff running (safari, ichat, mail, many terminals, itunes, console, a few others), and I was kinda sitting back in my chair so I didn’t see anything at first…
Rudimentary “beat the hell out of QuickTime Player” testing shows that this machine will play a good number of average video files without breaking a sweat. Next I tried 2, then 4 1080i HD quicktime movie trailers, which played simultaneously without dropping any frames.
It was able to sustain it for a good while, QuickTime Player reporting about 300 – 350% cpu usage, but eventually it wedged and had to be force quiteded(ed). (as an aside, note that I did the same tests when I got my g5 tower, and after I had two or three movies open, it *rebooted itself*; thus began my struggle with that machine to keep it thermally cool; alas). It also performed an xcode 2.4 ‘easy’ installation in 3 minutes 11 seconds. Oh, and it runs quake4 very very well :)
Selected stats:
Machine Name: Mac Pro
Machine Model: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
ATI Radeon X1900 XT:
Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1900
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Intel High Definition Audio:
Available Devices:
Line Out:
Connection: 1/8 inch Jack
Headphone:
Connection: 1/8 inch Jack
Line In:
Connection: 1/8 inch Jack
Speaker:
Connection: Internal
S/P-DIF Out:
Connection: Optical
S/P-DIF In:
Connection: Optical
{2} andre@xxxx [~] % df -h -t hfs
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 465G 20G 445G 4% /
/dev/disk1s3 233G 132G 101G 57% /Volumes/Bay
/dev/disk2s3 234G 225G 9.0G 96% /Volumes/idio
idio and Bay are the two disks from the g5. Slide ’em out of the g5, take off the little rail nub screws that keep the drives in place in the g5 slots, put ’em into two of the three available mac pro drive sleds, done. I’ll be doing a propper reformat of the disk they shipped me, and migration of data, but not until I can get on a UPS. We’ve had three power outages in 5 days.
sudo dscl . create /Users/andre NFSHomeDirectory /Volumes/idio/Users/andre ; sudo reboot
works just fine for now :)
