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I'm surprised the Portable is counted as "rare", it's much cheaper and easier to get than most of those (even with recently rising prices). That and I own far t

I'm surprised the Portable is counted as "rare", it's much cheaper and easier to get than most of those (even with recently rising prices). That and I own far too many Macintosh Portables...

Paul-Craft 3y ago
I think they were dipping a little deep in the pool for "rare" machines toward the end. I'm literally writing this comment on a trashcan Mac that I paid $400 for less than a year ago. One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. It's a solid machine (I got mine with 8 cores and 64GB ram, and it comes standard with dual GPUs). These machines even have a pretty decent following still. See, for instance, https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-mac-pro-2013-trashcan-guide.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma...
- poulsbohemian 3y ago
  >One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. This is a great point and kinda stings given my situation... I've got a 5 year old iMac that is still a beast by its specs, but is ancient by Mac standards. No OS updates anymore, so functionally obsolete for anyone who wants to use it as a Mac. Wondering if I should install linux and give it a second life.
  - Paul-Craft 3y ago
    In case it wasn't entirely obvious, that's what I'm doing with my trashcan Mac. The choices at this point are basically to install Ventura via an unsupported hack[0] or Linux. I chose Linux, because when the inevitable problems arise, I'd rather have the volume of resources for troubleshooting Linux s to able to me rather than just forums dedicated to said unsupported hack. --- [0]: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DROP.html https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DR...

I'm surprised the Portable is counted as "rare", it's much cheaper and easier to get than most of those (even with recently rising prices). That and I own far too many Macintosh Portables...

Paul-Craft 3y ago

I think they were dipping a little deep in the pool for "rare" machines toward the end. I'm literally writing this comment on a trashcan Mac that I paid $400 for less than a year ago. One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. It's a solid machine (I got mine with 8 cores and 64GB ram, and it comes standard with dual GPUs). These machines even have a pretty decent following still. See, for instance, https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-mac-pro-2013-trashcan-guide.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma...

poulsbohemian 3y ago
>One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. This is a great point and kinda stings given my situation... I've got a 5 year old iMac that is still a beast by its specs, but is ancient by Mac standards. No OS updates anymore, so functionally obsolete for anyone who wants to use it as a Mac. Wondering if I should install linux and give it a second life.
- Paul-Craft 3y ago
  In case it wasn't entirely obvious, that's what I'm doing with my trashcan Mac. The choices at this point are basically to install Ventura via an unsupported hack[0] or Linux. I chose Linux, because when the inevitable problems arise, I'd rather have the volume of resources for troubleshooting Linux s to able to me rather than just forums dedicated to said unsupported hack. --- [0]: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DROP.html https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DR...