Re: Buying old Mac Pros

2011-03-05 Thread Richard Ramsowr
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Buying old Mac Pros

2011-03-03 Thread typopetedog
I bought one of these old Mac Pros end of year. My reason was that I wanted to run Leopard 10.5. If the RAM, GBs, Processor Speed, work for you, and the savings are significant, do it. Mine was only $1995 with 1.5 years of AppleCare left. There is nothing like having 4 hard drives on line, 2 DVD

Re: Buying old Mac Pros

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:29 AM, typopetedog wrote: I bought one of these old Mac Pros end of year. My reason was that I wanted to run Leopard 10.5. Moving to 10.6 on ANY Intel-based mac is a big no-brainer; you get significant performance increases. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona

Re: Buying old Mac Pros

2011-03-03 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I would have to get a killer deal to make it worth buying an Intel mac. I've got a Hackintosh laptop I use, and a Hackintosh desktop I'm using constantly. They both work great, the laptop only costing me $90, and the desktop was free. I've got two 1TB hard drives in the desktop, set up on a backup