I can tell you first hand since I use a Mac Pro 2008 model and duel-boot my OS. If you want to take a chance, sure you can try to do it yourself and flash a card as pointed out. However, I do know you can often run into trouble and most places won't provide any sort of refund if it does not work out for you. Worse, if you really mess something up during the flash or there was something you did not know about there goes your money out the window.

Personally, we all know if buying an Apple product we are buying into a closed system design and they charge more for the same parts a PC user can get. Short answer I would suggest is to buy straight from Apple and get either the nVidia 8800GT like I have or I think the 280 model may work as well which is a little better.

I have no major crashing issues with my current setup. Yes, it is still not a good as Vue 8.x 64 bit Windows, but it does work. Once the 64 bit Cocoa version comes out, you should see some serious benefits just like the Windows 64 bit version. When that happens, you may want a current Mac Pro and get everything all at once along with Apple Care.

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.