[quote name='michael' date='Oct 6 2008, 07:59 AM' post='227163']
I'm just putting a new system together this week. The pieces should be here in a couple of days.
I ordered a 3Ghz 8 core with 2GB ram and one 1 Terabyte drive. That's the minimum configuration that one can get away with from Apple. I then ordered three more internal 1T drives and another 8GB of ram for under a thousand dollars, saving almost another $2K over Apple's pricing. A RAID card is unnecessary.
Based on advice from Chris Sanderson I will configure one of the drives as my boot drive and non-photo / video data drive, with a second as a mirror, using either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner.
I got 2x3.2 GHz Quad-core
With 8 GB from apple store.
If you get memory, other then apple
the computer heated up quickly.
& will have very bad sound
better of pay the extra for the memory, from apple store.
I got experience with other memory.
BlasR