Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 2007 MacPro 1,1

2012-10-07 Thread Tim Law
Hello, I have come across a July 2007 MacPro 1,1 machine that is running Lion. Although daunted by the physical size of the machine compared to my Mac Mini, I am attracted to the idea of mounting extra drives internally. However, it does not run Mountain Lion. I am running Mountain Lion on my

Re: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 2007 MacPro 1,1

2012-10-07 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Tim, If I was you (which obviously I'm not); I would wait as it is rumoured and I feel 'correctly rumoured' :-) ... that a new model MacPro will be released in 2013. New 27-inch iMacs should be released in late 2012. Cheers, Ronni who is still upset with Apple dropping the 17 MacBook Pro

Re: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 2007 MacPro 1,1

2012-10-07 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks Ronni, any insight into what the new 27 iMac will feature? Are there still screen issues as I had read about earlier? Regards Pete On 07/10/2012, at 4:43 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Tim, If I was you (which obviously I'm not); I would wait as it is rumoured and I feel

Re: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 2007 MacPro 1,1

2012-10-07 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Pete, Well, they will have a 27-inch screen :-) Note: The this is all circumspect information below: The leaked benchmark for a new iMac described a model called iMac13,2, which runs on a 3.4 GHz Core i7-3770 quad-core processor with 4GB of 1600 MHz RAM, and operates on OS X 10.8 Mountain

Re: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 2007 MacPro 1,1

2012-10-07 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks Ronni, well I've been just about to buy one through the previous 2 or 3 iterations. I suppose if I keep waiting, there will always be a better one just 'around the corner'. :) It will be mid next year when my logical next opportunity presents itself irrespective of if there's a new

Re: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 2007 MacPro 1,1

2012-10-07 Thread Tim Law
Thanks Ronni The Mac Pro doesn't owe me anything but is new to me. If I were to buy a new computer it would be another mac Mini with one or two SSD drives. The Pro really is excess to requirements but a nice machine still, notwithstanding its OS limitations. Years ago I managed to stretch