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Real Mac Pro would be an aluminum "cheese grater" large quiet box that sits under the desk that I never see or hear unless I want to upgrade something. The tra

Real Mac Pro would be an aluminum "cheese grater" large quiet box that sits under the desk that I never see or hear unless I want to upgrade something. The trashcan is at most Mac Mini Pro. Having thousand cables and external boxes sitting on your desk to expand it is not practical nor elegant, and gets out of date pretty fast. And quite frankly it's ugly as well.

terinjokes 10y ago
I have a G5 from the last generation of the cheese graters under my desk right now. The case has seen better days, so I might have to source a better preserved one soon, but I can say it runs Linux just fine.
- throwawayish 10y ago
  The power-to-POWER ratio of these G5s was a joke. The mechanical design is quite sound (forgetting about the HDD cage for a second), though, and they look fetching, even today. (imho much better than the trash cans)
  - rhinoceraptor 10y ago
    There are some really nice PC/Hackintosh builds with hacked up G5 cases. You can even get custom-built motherboard trays that are meant to go in those cases: http://www.mountainmods.com/mountain-mods-modular-removable-motherboard-tray-p-56.html http://www.mountainmods.com/mountain-mods-modular-removable-...
- beachstartup 10y ago
  i still use my 2009 8x xeon mac pro as my primary workstation. upgraded ram, gpu, ssd, video, 4k monitor, and a couple of other things. i'm trying to get 10 years out of it, which looks do-able, maybe. it refuses to install the latest OS X's though, so it may finish its life as a linux box. will 2019 finally be the year of linux on the desktop???
  - super_mario 10y ago
    I managed to install the latest OS on mine. Basically you have 4 options: 1. Hack Sierra installer to bypass restrictions. 2. Use target disk mode on Mac Pro and another Mac that supports firewire 800 to install Sierra. 3. Clone internal disk to external. Do upgrade to Sierra on it, then clone back to internal. 4. Remove internal disk, plug into external USB case, install Sierra on it. Plug it back to Mac Pro. In all 4 cases you must hack the /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist to make it bootable on Mac Pro. You need to do it for recovery partition as well, if you ever want to boot to recovery partition.

terinjokes 10y ago

I have a G5 from the last generation of the cheese graters under my desk right now. The case has seen better days, so I might have to source a better preserved one soon, but I can say it runs Linux just fine.

throwawayish 10y ago
The power-to-POWER ratio of these G5s was a joke. The mechanical design is quite sound (forgetting about the HDD cage for a second), though, and they look fetching, even today. (imho much better than the trash cans)
- rhinoceraptor 10y ago
  There are some really nice PC/Hackintosh builds with hacked up G5 cases. You can even get custom-built motherboard trays that are meant to go in those cases: http://www.mountainmods.com/mountain-mods-modular-removable-motherboard-tray-p-56.html http://www.mountainmods.com/mountain-mods-modular-removable-...
beachstartup 10y ago
i still use my 2009 8x xeon mac pro as my primary workstation. upgraded ram, gpu, ssd, video, 4k monitor, and a couple of other things. i'm trying to get 10 years out of it, which looks do-able, maybe. it refuses to install the latest OS X's though, so it may finish its life as a linux box. will 2019 finally be the year of linux on the desktop???
- super_mario 10y ago
  I managed to install the latest OS on mine. Basically you have 4 options: 1. Hack Sierra installer to bypass restrictions. 2. Use target disk mode on Mac Pro and another Mac that supports firewire 800 to install Sierra. 3. Clone internal disk to external. Do upgrade to Sierra on it, then clone back to internal. 4. Remove internal disk, plug into external USB case, install Sierra on it. Plug it back to Mac Pro. In all 4 cases you must hack the /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist to make it bootable on Mac Pro. You need to do it for recovery partition as well, if you ever want to boot to recovery partition.