I recently retired a Mac Pro 1,1 that was run with the EFI hack for 2-3 years quite successfully. It would run rings around newer Macs. With upgraded processors, plenty of RAM and an ATI 1GB 5700 it was a smokin' machine that I had maybe $600 in all total.
I moved up to a Mac Prom3,1 late last year. I sold the 1,1 for $300 on CL, paid $350 for the 3,1 with the stock dual processors, Apple RAID card with four 400GB 15k drives and added a 480GB SSD for a boot drive ($125) and 32GB of RAM for ($75). I kept the ATI card from the 1,1. For $250 I got another smokin' hot machine that runs current OS' and doesn't need the EFI hack. The Intel Mac Pros (cheese graters) are one of the best values out there for Macs, I think. Dan Sent from my iPad > On May 16, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > All the Mac Pro's will run 64-bit El Crapitan, but the first > two need you to play games with the boot.efi files. And you > need a non-stock video card. My brother's 1,1 had run Crap > in a test, and the 2,1 I'm typing from now is running it. > I believe all Mac Pros will take at least 16GB of ECC RAM, > so Crap is plenty happy there. (The 1,1 had 16GB in it, > this 2,1 has 24GB. 4GB's probably enough to run it well.) > > He paid $150 for his, w/23" Cinema monitor, keyboard, mouse, > and we had about another $100 in it in RAM and disks. We were > a video card away from being done upgrading it when fire took it. > Probably $50 with some careful shopping, and it'd been good > for at least five more years of service. > > The Unigine demos are impressive on them. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
