I am using the machine for ableton live, programming and pen testing. I will be running virtual machines, mainly fedora, ubuntu, backtrack and xp. With the mac pro il have to limit myself to two screens. with the pc I can have 3 separate displays plus a tv display and a duplicate running aswell.
I will also have to upgrade the memory in the mac pro so will be about 2200 heres the link to it
http://store.apple.com/uk/configure/...uct=MC560B%2FA
or do i build this
Fractal Design Define XL Black
MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) Socket 2011 Motherboard
Intel Core I7-3930K 3.20GHz Socket 2011 12MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (8x4GB) DDR3 1600 Non-ECC Unbuffered
Powercool 1050W PSU 80+ Quad 12V V2.3 High Efficiency
Asus GTX 560 Ti Battlefield 3 Edition 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI PCI-E
OCZ 120GB Agility 3 SSD - SATA-III - Read 525MB/s Write 500MB/s 85,000
WD 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s Caviar Green Hard Drive - 64MB Cache
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
that comes in at 1700. So £500 quid cheaper
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