I found a mid 2010 Mac Pro in the recycling at work with a sticker saying “broken” on it. As gramps used to say as we spent hours upon end fixing CRT tv’s, ‘it ain’t broke until I say so’. Stuck my mini’s operating system on it and it’s now MY new work computer. Everyone else is running cheap windows pc’s, the jealousy is palpable lol. I absolutely love it just for the tower, never mind the rest.

@yarik6543

4 жыл бұрын

George Loveridge no one asked

@calebshedd1732

3 жыл бұрын

Legendary

@larrylclappjr

3 жыл бұрын

I work at an electronics recycling place. Paid $40 for a 12core, 16 gb mid 2010 mac pro. If you are looking for one try places like that. I also got a 4 core 2009 with 6 gb for free. One had a Radeon HD 5870, and a 5770.

@sherab108

3 жыл бұрын

Score!!!

@TonyisToking

3 жыл бұрын

@@yarik6543 sad :(

Don’t get me wrong, the ‘09 Mac Pro is the best price to performance ratio Mac you can get....in America. This particular Mac in the uk is upwards to £500 on eBay!

@boxfullofneutral8514

6 жыл бұрын

Jack Mccormick it's the same in the US, 250 my arse

@MrSamadolfo

6 жыл бұрын

😒🍎 5,1 start at $350 in the US, and thats with a crappy useless 4 core cpu and a useless single tray cpu that u have to throw out and then buy an expensive dual cpu tray, if u go cheap its not worth upgrading. So wait and spend your money on a much better 5,1 Dual Core Pro at minimum, otherwise its not a deal, dont buy

@PackardKotch

3 жыл бұрын

That's crazy

If you get the 5,1 patch for the 09' Mac Pro, you can actually have a pair of X5690's installed which will make for a total of 12 Cores and 24 Threads running at 3.46 GHz, the fastest processor upgrade you can ever do to a Pre-2013 Mac Pro! They can also rock up to 128GB's of RAM, 6 Hard Drives (If you take out the optical ones) and a stock 1080 Ti, all which make an absolutely monstrous computer that can still shred through anything you throw at it today.

@vincentgok2944

6 жыл бұрын

how hot can it be with dual X5690? dude, I'm just about to upgrade my 2012 one with your CPU.

@jameo3606

6 жыл бұрын

Vincent Gu It will be fine, they're built to accomodate them, dual X5690's will obviously provide a fair bit more heat than a standard quad core xeon for example but they won't overheat, even under large workloads, large workloads are what the Mac Pro were designed to take on! 😊

@AppleReviews

6 жыл бұрын

be careful for their TDP - as I can remember X5690 = 135W times 2 if dual CPU - Apple design cooling for 95W max = so You will end up with 40 or 80W too much - if You be using it for short time 100% CPU usage - then that's fine - if for long time 100% CPU usage = 100% chance of burn CPU tray/socket. And then if You have powerful GPU - which takes almost MAX PCIe Wattage = 300W = 100% chance of burn power supply

@RANDOMNAME-kj1zv

6 жыл бұрын

Bart So what would you suggest?

@WeebLabs

6 жыл бұрын

Bart is incorrect. The Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 is perfectly capable of keeping a pair of X5690s below 65°C under full load. As for PCI-E wattage limitations, these pertain solely to the current carrying capability of traces on the motherboard (which are adequate for a GTX 1080 Ti) rather than the 980W PSU itself. In the event that you require a GPU with a TDP greater than 250W, various solutions exist which enable you to connect said GPU directly to the PSU's 12V rail.

Those are the best Macs ever made. Work horses.

@lillebrorsanvincent2017

4 жыл бұрын

Davor Pasaric these things are screamers

Great video. I like the new style and congrats on the sponsor!

In Germany you have to pay from 500€ up to 1300€ for the 2009 Mac Pro

@dubnationx86i

6 жыл бұрын

Go to a Belgium not that far or France you're going to save 1000€

@juaneduardovitoria

5 жыл бұрын

same as Spain

@upthinker2336

5 жыл бұрын

In Poland too

5 жыл бұрын

Bruder, muss los.

@Alecexo

5 жыл бұрын

Different currency

My 2008 Mac Pro still going strong

Wow, loving the new quality. This style is great. Keep it up!

The 4,1 / 5,1 Mac Pros are a great value, though you have to factor in extra cost for a decent display and GPU if you don't already have one. I've been able to score them locally for even cheaper than the prices you find on eBay, and have a 2010 5,1 upgraded to 12 cores @ 2.93 GHz + GTX 970 which is quite a beast for tasks that take advantage of multiple cores.

@bogmasher

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I think you are correct, I have a 2009 model with the Radeon RX 580 and the sense of achievement is amazing, I really enjoyed installing it and my friends and neighbors are very, very jealous and always seem to be pointing and gossiping when I leave my house. I’m a very Lucky man to have found these affordable upgrades.

@nadams127

6 жыл бұрын

2009 as well with a 12 core 2.93 I just upgrade 3 months ago and I'm in love lol =) I still need to upgrade my video card though she has a 7850 ATI 2 Gig but I love this machine and won't be upgrading for awhile! I use her for App Development and design and just lover her!

@MrSamadolfo

6 жыл бұрын

🙂 why didnt u get the top of the line Westmere 6 core 12 thread cpu?

I'm watching this on mine... Got 2 of them for $500 bucks. Freaking love em. Might get 2 more!

lmao, why you appearing suddenly on 6:31

@scottcassell3485

6 жыл бұрын

fight club

@bigmrfnB

6 жыл бұрын

his name was Robert Paulson

@gavinendsley

5 жыл бұрын

it was a rendering error i think

I enjoy your videos! I recently got a 2012 MBP 13". Something I noticed about this particular video though - several of the scene changes have a random frame inserted. Is it just me?

@lukemiani

6 жыл бұрын

No you're right, Something got messed up in export. Really bothered me but I only saw it after upload and I don't want to confuse people by deleting it after is already has 400 views. Grr

@dshin198

6 жыл бұрын

Luke Miani ah, got it. Oh well, stuff happens

Excellent video. I just picked up a nearly new condition Mac Pro 2009, Quad core. Came with an Apple wired keyboard and mouse, all three for $100. I do plan on upgrading it in the next few days. I estimate by the time I upgrade the RAM (to 32GBs), GPU, and add a 1TB SSD I'll be in for less then $450. Apple prices for their new products are sky high; more then I'm willing to pay. I'll stick with my 2012 product line, couple of mac minis (maxed out), iMac 27, and MacBook Pro 15" and now the 2009 Mac Pro.

New sub! Great quality vids, I was surprised to see you only had 10k subs!

@lolgod1695

6 жыл бұрын

Ency you are correct Mr.Miami should be much more popular. Maybe you can do videos with other famous youtbers like Linus Tech Tips or Austin Evans or Strange Parts or maybe start doing 3ds videos, I found a KZreadr playing Pokemon Ultra Moon with 5 million views in a month!

I turned my old 2008 in to a server, it has 32 GB of ram. It runs 5 game server instances at once + smb server. I’m really astonished how well these machines were build, after so many years of hard work at the office, I have it running 24/7 and it performs flawlessly.

@ted356

Жыл бұрын

When my 4,1 can no longer run a useful Mac OS, I plan to make it my home server. I expect it run for a least another decade.

I've got one of these fully upgraded, drive, graphics, 48 gb RAM and the Xeons upgraded to 3.46 hex core. It is the best value Mac Pro by far. It has been a good buy at $ 250, as in the UK the 4,1 still makes pretty fair money.

@kellypaws

6 жыл бұрын

Who knows. I only know it's just as fast as my Core i7 Windows box and because OSX is better at multitasking, it runs more smoothly and falls over less often (never even). For the time being, it's a better all round machine than my Windows box. It's graphics (GTX1070 right now) can continue to be upgraded. It might get locked out after High Sierra, if Apple make a big change in underlying OS. But that will probably effect 6,1s every bit as much. They're extremely good machines for the moment and probably for a reasonable period after. As regards fundamental reliability, I have a PowerMac G4 which is still 100% usable, and actually very quick, if you ignore SSL internet issues, which restrict it to non internet tasks. I wouldn't care about the machines being old, as long as they do their job. Same reason I have a maxed out old Volvo turbo, because it does what it's mean't to do REALLY well. Whose bothered if it's not new?

Really intrested in seeing what upgrades can you make on this

Congrats on the sponsor!!

and if you decide to spend an extra $100 making it $350, you can get the dual processor model (if you're lucky)

Nice video. I'm also using a 4.1 Quad-Core and a 5.1 2xQuad-Core. They are the best macs in my opinion. You can also install High Sierra on 4.1 Mac Pro without a firmware "upgrade", search for "macOS High Sierra Patcher Tool for Unsupported Macs". I'm using it since it's Sierra version and currently using it with High Sierra on the 4.1.

can't wait to see the upgrade video's

Great vid dude!

Nice, aesthetic shots. I like that a lot.

I have a 2009 Mac Pro and I use it for live streaming with wirecast I am impressed how well it can handle 3 cameras, two monitors while pushing out HD content both locally on the hard drive and out on to the Internet without glitches or cut outs. I love having the ability to upgrade it. My school was retiring them before I graduated so it was perfect timing. I think the overall age of it is over 6 years old without signs of slowing down by the time I got it. I do agree best built computer by Apple.

I have one, 2010 upgraded to 12 cores and 64 gigs of ram AAAAAANNNNNND I LOVE IT! Other than the fact it is a personal heater 🤦‍♂️

@AppleReviews

6 жыл бұрын

every single PC - especially dual CPU 12 core - CPU usage 100% will be personal heater :)

@MrSamadolfo

6 жыл бұрын

🙂 at idle its not bad

@yourhandlehere1

5 жыл бұрын

I was just given one a couple of weeks ago. Not sure what year but the body looks the same. Gigantic, heavy. It's got a TB drive, 128 Gb ram, I think a 1 Gb video card and something like 8 dual cores. 24" Cinema display. I hooked it up and checked for updates, got nothing. OSX. I don't have a single program that runs on mac though. They seem to think it was around $4000 when built. Wonder if I could trade it for a set of tires? I had to put it directly over an ac vent, even the display gets hot as hell.

@MrSamadolfo

5 жыл бұрын

@@yourhandlehere1 🤓 look up the numbers on the back to have an idea what model it might be, i imagine it could be a 2,1 or 3,1 or 4,1 or 5,1 boot it up and look for the specs windows, its somewhere in settings? see exactly what cpus it has? see what video card i imagine its a 5770 1gb ddr5 card? see what osx version u got running? go to Hrutkay Mods utube channel, he has an old set of videos about Mac Pro upgrades and mods? u shud be able to test the video card by going to itch,io website and start downloading all the heavier games and try em out many of the games are triple os window mac linux, u can also install windows on a separate hard drive and just use it for windows thats what i do, i have an older 2,1 i use as a spare gaming pc in a spare bedroom, its slower than a modern pc, kinda like my Core2Quad Desktop but thats ok the case styling is really sweet and timeless 💻🎮🕹😍🍎🚩

@yourhandlehere1

5 жыл бұрын

No numbers on outside and it seems my memory was a little (ok...way) off . It says 4,1 OSX 10.6.8 or 10.8.6 or something. 2 quad core xeon 2.66 ghz for 8 cores, 24 gig ram, a 1 gig Ati radeon 5something. Two slots for dvd drives but one seems to be empty one is the "super" drive. (somebody talked to me on the way back dammit, the mac is in a different part of the house) Hell, you should see the Frankenstein'd Quad2Duo running XP I'm typing this on. Most of my stuff is fairly old but runs fine on XP. I did happen to find a copy of Windows 7 in the box of stuff that came with the mac. Can you partition the mac drive or does it need to be another physical hard drive to load windows on? It may have an easier time running Lightwave. It seems years ago when the first Imac came out that my buddy partitioned the drive to run windows. I don't think the Imac had space for another drive.

Honestly, thank you so much for this video. I have had this MacBook Air for a bit and wanted to buy something else. I bought it for school but it’s a 2012 one so I needed something better. Thank you so much. I will get the 2010 one of this!!!!

@lukemiani

6 жыл бұрын

You'll save a few hundred if you buy a 2009 and upgrade it.

@User-4517

6 жыл бұрын

keep in mind that if you get the dual cpu 2009 machine you'll need to "delid" any new processors you buy... s

That transition from exterior to interior was sweet

Ah, back when apple knew how to build good computers.

@naraydaniels7832

2 жыл бұрын

R.I.P, I felt bad when I told someone that my computer is so old that it was upgradable, they simply said it’s sad that I have associate a good feature with age

Helo Luke! great video! nicely thought. BTW as constructive feedback, the only thing I will suggest is for you to get or make a better front light. Try to get at least a 150 leds lamp and dimmed it with some white paper in front. Your face looks a bit darker compare the background, and on closeups you want the attention to be in the thing up front, being you or the computer. The rest...flawless. Peace

Did you get a new set? It looks super good!

Where do you get your music? I really like it!

I live a ways out of town in the Yukon, Canada. Last Saturday on our way home from town, my son and I stopped at the dump out our way which has the best "free store" around. I always do the stop on Saturday on the way home. You never know what you will find...I have found Macbook Pros, iPods, Apple stuff galore...all working now or even NEW accessories in the boxes. Well, Saturday I got out of the truck and saw it right away, sitting in the broken electronics section on the table. A “vintage” all aluminum Mac Pro, complete and in tact. I hefted the 40 lb. tank of a computer into the truck and brought it home. I got it home and let it warm up a few hours. Then…It turned right on. It is a 2009 Mac Pro "Eight Core" 2.26 (Early 2009) powered by two 2.26 GHz Quad Core Xeon E5520 (Nehalem) processors...12GB RAM, a 640GB HDD, and a 250GB HDD. It is running Snow Leopard, a clean fresh install it seems. It can take EL Capitan, but that is the newest I could go on it as it is. I have all of the cords it needed already (it came with nothing from the free store) It can run up to 128 GB of RAM! It can take 4 full hard drives. And much more. It is blazing fast already. It runs perfectly, and works flawlessly. It is easy to open up and work on, and easy to upgrade. I have wanted one of these for many years. I even cleaned the casing and much of the grime and marks actually came right off. I also took off some stickers. It is an 8 out of 10. Just wow. All for FREE.

@joshlee5169

4 жыл бұрын

DWD it runs well?

This machine on MacPro5,1 firmware can support chips like Xeon X5675 (6C/12T 3.06/3.46GHz) which is still no slouch even in the face of Skylake and Coffee Lake processors. Add in a reference AMD Radeon RX 580 or nVidia GeForce GTX 1060, and you get a fairly modern machine up to the task of being a daily driver. If you can find that elusive dual socket version and throw in a pair of X5675's you would get a beast of a machine. macOS will work with standard XHCI USB 3.0/3.1 adapters so with an PCIe card you are not missing out on that. That card can also give you some PC-style internal USB headers, allowing you to use one of those adapter cards that takes a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module from a recent model MacBook Pro, giving you access to features like 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0, Handoff and Continuity.

Great Video!

Very nice video. You deserve way more views! :-)

Just finished a new build designed for performance and low power consumption and a really cool operating temperatures. I was running a system from 2008 but new components are just so much more efficient.

gosh.. its modularity makes me think getting one even today. hope new Mac Pro will be modular.

I just picked one up off of eBay for all together including shipping and sales taxes for $285. Thanks Luke for inspiring me to buy one of these gems! I making a video of me unboxing it and shouting you out.

Love the video and subbed. A friend and I recently split on a "PALLET" of Macs from the "As seen on TV" HQ in Toronto Ontario. He bought me out for most of it but in the end I paid $200 for an 8 core 2.4ghz 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 with 28gb of ram and a 27" Cinema Display. These are hands down the best value for sure. I love mine. The Pallet had 4 Mac Pros, 4 27" Cinema Displays 3 older 23" Cinema Displays, all the full sized keyboards and 3 27" 2009 iMacs. We paid $1800 for the lot. Couldn't Believe it.

@lukemiani

6 жыл бұрын

Carjack Malone that’s incredible. I gotta try that sometime. I’ll start asking universities

@ChrisBrideauMedia

6 жыл бұрын

Now is a great time to buy. There are slight limitations with these machines that most people will never need or notice (thunderbolt) but USB 3 PCI-e cards are plenty fast for me. Big companies and schools don't care. They just want the latest and greatest. Perfect for guys like us. Simply can't find better computers in this price range.

My goodness, you got quite a great deal. God bless you for posting this -- I type this comment from my Early 2009 Mac Pro, 6-cores at 3.33 mHz and 32 GB of RAM, so it's a pretty beefy machine. Can't remember how much I paid for it, but certainly more than that. And now with SSDs in the drive slots, well, let's just say it's a s fast as any computer I could ever need. The only two downsides are (1) that it is orphaned at Mac OS version 10.11.6, and (2) it is not forward-compatible with Thunderbolt.

@WillCate

6 жыл бұрын

I would like to upgrade my video card (same as yours), so I'd be interested when you do that. I've maxed mine out at one 2HD monitor and one extra HD monitor.

@joshuapinter

5 жыл бұрын

Yours isn't orphaned yet. If it's a 4,1 model (which 2009 should be) then you just need to updated the firmware to 5,1 and then you'll be able to install High Sierra as well as the latest Mojave coming out. Super easy. Give it a shot.

i still have my 2010 cMP, 8yrs old and still runs great

Would love to get one! Energy efficiency would be a sore point though.

I snatched a 2010 5,1 Mac Pro at an ITS sale where I work for $150. It was a steal, and upgrading it is so easy.

Hey man, do you sell any of these computers you work on at all?

Three months ago I finally retired my 2005 Mac Pro (first aluminum box). It was a great machine and extremely reliable.

@skip741x3

5 жыл бұрын

i got 2 of those sitting in my closet... beautiful to look at but slow as molasses....i use mac pro 2006 1,1 8 cores that still perform fantastic

This is exactly what I did - 2009 upgraded to 5,1 X5690, 24GB (3x 1333Mhz triple channel), 1TB SSD on SATA3 card, 2x2TB mirror, GTX 1080, USB3, Cinema Display 27" DP. Thing is a beast, run it in win 10 bootcamp with oculus rift and it runs perfect!

You can also run High Sierra on a 2008 mac pro FYI. I'm running it dualbooted with Windows Server 2012 R2 on mine.

Luke Miani , Serious question Sir. First what I'm working with. I have a Mac Pro 5,1 2x3.46 12 Core, which was running High Sierra but had to jump to Mojave with the purchase of a RX580 graphics card. The 5,1 is loaded w/124GB DDR3, OWC provided Sonnet Raid Card w/ 2X2TB SATA Crucial SSD's making a 4TB Boot Drive, plus 4x10TB HDD's in trays (2 HDD's are storage and 2 are Clones), Gigabyte GC- Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3, USB-c, Display and Mini Port Card Currently it has a RX580 Sapphire which runs- 2x4K 27' displays and my newest Work from home tool a... WACOM 32" Cintiq Pro The adding of the WACOM PRO has just started some serious LAG when I draw to the surface of the unit. SO, getting to the question... If I go the route of a Radeon VII (which you stated and we see is now supported on Mojave) But I have just jumped to Catalina (Damn it!), Using DosDudes patch (Thanks for making it possible DosDude1.com). Hoping that driver upgrades would decrease lag on the RX580. However it didn't! It appears better Graphics performance is needed to run all three monitors with Touch/Draw capabilities. So I'm considering your Radeon VII upgrade. Here is the question - Will the Radeon VII run better on the Catalina OS, is it better supported now without driver limitations that it experienced with Mojave?

Nice one huski luva

SCDKeys are the DBrand of key selling sites, I'm seeing them sponsoring loads of channels.

These machines will never die. Bullets bounce off them. Still using my 2006 Mac Pro1,1 on 10.6.8 as a second machine; works as well now as it did when I bought it new. 4 drives, several USB cards. All I really want from Apple is another one of these with 2018-level guts, though I doubt we'll get anything close to that.

Well, it's 5 years later but I just bought one off Ebay for 83 bucks including shipping (the Mac was 49 bucks from a high rated seller). It only has 8 gig of RAM and a one terabyte SATA drive but for about another $75.00 I got a METAL compatible GTX 680 graphics card and 32 gig of RAM. I've upgraded the firmware and, while it doesn't run great (I already had another one) the thing will run Ventura.

With the right hardware and software upgrades can you trick the system so that you’ll be able to upgrade to Mojave?

Is there anything that can be done up-grade wise with a Mac Pro 1,1? I love this thing as it does fine with my audio editing software, but I'm limited to OS 10.6.8 and, of course, newer software. Updates.

I'm still rocking an 09 Mac Pro for all my video editing. 2.8 GHz quad core CPU, 24 GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD boot drive. Also 4 1TB WD reds.

I"ve mulled it over before. But the lack of thunderbolt 2/3 makes it a no-go for me.

2009 with 3.45 with high Sierra great computer! Plan on 12 core soon

how do i install SSDs on this? i jusr recently got one based on ur recommendation and im pretty new to building and stuff thres no slot for the ssd

I bought a 2009 Mac Pro this year with 32 GB of RAM with 2X 2.93 GHz, which is 8 cores total for 425 dollars. It runs 2 Plex servers, VMs, and it's connected to my 4k tv. I upgraded the graphics card. I just use Remote Desktop to control it for streaming or play something on the TV. Perfectly happy with it and it doesn't run as hot as 1,1 Mac Pros. The 1,1 Mac Pros are space heaters. I bought 2012 Macbook Pro with manufacture date 8.12.13 for the nearly the same price. It's i5, 8 GB of RAM and 240 SSD.

Where did you buy this Mac Pro from. I'm really interested in purchasing one but I don't want to get ripped off. How do you know what to look for in the seller.

I just bought non working Mac Pro 2009, but just for the case. As insides, I used an old cpuless server (HP DL160 G6) that was also cheap and had 72GB of ram! I just had to bought processors (2x six core xeons X5680) and some parts like PSU and CPU coolers, used RX550... Overall I payed under 500 euro for a PC that is insanely powerful. Well, relatively to anything I ever had :) As until this point, I did all my work on laptop with i5 5200U...

Great video

I picked up a 2008 last year for $200, so slightly cheaper, but with dual 4 core 2.8GHz Xeons, threw some extra ram in it and new drives and use it as my daily desktop. More than capable for anything I need it for. I believe the 2009s you get the Xeons with hyperthreading, but when I looked there was quite a price jump. If you got one for $250 that's a good deal!

Someone’s back home for the summer!

Do you have a link to that Firmware patch that allows you to update it??

Ok Luke, it’s mid-2022. How about an update? Is this Mac Pro still any good?

Great video! Quick question, were you using US eBay? I was looking at eBay Australia and the prices seem to be in excess of $600...

@tatelandis8379

6 жыл бұрын

Henry Alekna yes same in Canada I bought my 2010 Mac Pro for 700 used

@kandc07

6 жыл бұрын

There's a significant price jump from 2008 to 2009 as the 2009s pick up the Xeons with hyperthreading. 2010s jump even more, they definitely go for around 500 to 600. I picked up a 2008 for $200 and it's fine with El Cap as my daily desktop, and I dual boot it with Windows 10 too.

@tatelandis8379

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Hooke yeah I had a 2008 for 5 years but I really needed an upgrade because it was hanging and lacking in latest OS. It’s still a great worth

What's with the random frames of footage sprinkled throughout the video?

need a link to that awesome music

Hi luke can you tell me or show me a list wich upgrades i need to make a mac pro 9 like this to a power full mac pro with siera for mine audio music studio,,

I still have this 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 => 5,1 with 32GB RAM, and RX560 + ATI Radeon 2600XT 256MB (for bootscreen) I mostly run LOGIC PRO X and its super stable. 😇

watching this 6/2019 ... today* I just bought a "mac pro 2009" from Ebay for $338 incl. shipping. has a quad core/32gigs of ram/ 1 tb hdd/running Mojave .. I'm super excited for it to arrive, in 6-8 days!! planning on doing some upgrades later like ssd, gpu etc. really I can't wait. (now, I think I'm complete* 4 now) ... I now own: 2017 Imac, 2017 macbook pro, 2018 macbook, 2012 macbook air, 2011 macbook pro, 2x: 2014 mac mini's, 2014 ipad air & now, this mac pro 2009 !!! wow, i know right. LOL. I've gone bananas over apple computers, but in my defense I have used windows pc's since 4ever, dell's, hp's, laptops & desktops and I have found apple computers to be more reliable then my pc's I have. don't get me wrong pc's R ok, but mac's R just a better experience for me thus far! very pleased, also gr8 video Luke, a yr later. 👍👍

Does someone know what is the song used at the beginning of the video? I really like it

Just bought myself a 2008 Mac Pro 3.1 - 2 x quad core Xeons, 8GB RAM - £207. Put an SSD in it and it's just great. Running two screens on it. If I'd realised I could get this sort of performance I'd not have had two Mac Minis before it. These old Pros are the best kept secret in the Mac world.

I remember having 24gb of ram back then it was considered to be insane :) since i was only working with 1080p and 720p videos

@walker4541

3 жыл бұрын

24gb is good one issue tho it’s a Mac Pro not a laptop

I love mine. Such a beast.

No hate, but it clearly is having a rough time with FCPX if I go with the amount of frame jumps around the transitions... Still I agree with you this is a pretty good machine for the price.

bro u need some lighting, great vid tho ;)

Even my 'old' Early 2008 /3.1 / 8-core rocks. Simple as that.

I bought one of these and have been attempting the firmware upgrade. But i continue to get the error massage. Then i went to download the efi upgrade and there's not option for me to even download the efi upgrade. So, has apple changed the firmware since this video was made?

what is the firmware patch that allows you to change the model identifier to 5,1?

I actually have one, i got it locally for around 79$ with a iMac G5 20 inch and a PowerMac G3. i would say the MacPro itself was just brilliant but the wifi card inside was broken so yeah.

There was an upgrade of the 2010 Mac Pro cheese grater in 2012. For me, that is the best Mac Pro, you can upgrade that to the newest nvidia GPU's. I really really like that design, it's not even an "old" design, it could easily existing today! I hope that whatever they ar doing, they will do something similar again. A lot of people think they won't but i don't believe that, they clearly said it would be customer upgradeable, so we'll see. But it's still a long wait till (probably) end 2019.

Is your mac pro loud I just bought a 09 version and the fans spin constantly is this normal?

i just run windows 7 on my mac pro ver 1.1 with the dual xenon 5150s and a 1gb dx11 graphics card and if i mod the firmware to 2.1 i can run dual quads and top out at 64gb of ram they all upgrade so long as your tech savy

Fyi they sell mac os compatable video cards designed for the mac pro u just look for the Mac logo

so i got a 2009 mac pro and the person i bought it from upgraded it and it now has 32 gb of ram and a rx 580 and it has 4 TB of storage and a 6 core xeon . what do you think i could sell it for. he also gave me a gen 1 apple keyboard and gen 1 track pad

I have a similar shirt as you! Only my squares are a little bit larger.

I still have the '10 MacBook Pro but the AirPort isn't working. Couldn't find any spare part

I bought a used Mac Pro and the screen says “no signal” what should I do? How can I fix this with what replacement graphics card?

06:30 - 31 well hello there! The price difference for macs between the USA and Europe is hilariously painful.

What's the latest "cheese grater" mac pro out there now?

For that haircut joke...you deserve my sub...lol

yes please to upgrades to your 2009 mac pro

What phone do you use ?

YOUR Right on Dude - I have purchased mine when it was on sale some years ago. I hope you know that you can purchase up to 128G Rm in 16GB Chips purchased by the Pair from OWC or one of its Dealers or Amazon suppliers. Make sure it is OWC Chips. I purchased mine from Amazon OWC dealer so i could claim my 5% Amazon.com Prime Card Rebate and get free shipping. Lets all keep sharing tips. I purchased this when i compared a Mac Mini and with upgrades was more than the Mac Pro. With 128Gm of Ram upgradeability, I do not see this being old for a longtime.

Where did you buy the Mac Pro

still runiing mine, its watercooled with 2 xeons

@Funktrainer

6 жыл бұрын

Rodrick HD No, it is not. There are no watercooled Mac Pros.

@monster6488

6 жыл бұрын

Funktrainer you know you can make a custom water cooling for it?

@TheOnion87

6 жыл бұрын

The only one I know of that is water cooled is a g5 or one of the g’s. And I am not completely sure about that.

@ric9573

6 жыл бұрын

and you use it to play minecraft i guess?

Background music at 5:58? pls, I really like it.

@lukemiani

6 жыл бұрын

DJ Quads- Circus

any way to upgrade 2007 Mac Pro to something that will run Mac OS High Sierra?