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BasicAppleGuySecond Lives for Discontinued Mac Pros
Aaron Mahler@BasicAppleGuy I have four of these in the basement, at least two of which are reserved for the bench wooden design for years now. Getting closer and closer on my to-do list.
Bruno Scheele@BasicAppleGuy Oh, that last one is excellent 😂👌
David Freeman@BasicAppleGuy a few of those are PowerMacs 😜
DesertFOX@D3codes @BasicAppleGuy At least someone noticed the obvious!
Agile@BasicAppleGuy This is both glorious and awful at the same time 😬
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Jason Cox@BasicAppleGuy that bench would look great at Apple Park!
Franceska MannThe spaceship is fully furnished.
Knud JahnkeI'm using the shell of a MacBook as a tray...
Mike Torr@BasicAppleGuy I STILL USE my 2009 cheesegrater. You know why? Because it can still run Quicktime Player 7, which I need for easy composition of image sequences into videos. And which Apple removed from my tool set without so much as saying 'please'. And which I PAID FOR.
Michael Vilain@macronencer @BasicAppleGuy I changed out the dual processors on my cheesegrater and flashed the ROM so it can run 12 cores and 32GB on MacOS 10.15. It won't recognized eSATA drives > 8TB, but I'm sure I could run TrueNAS on it eventually. The only problem is it's a power hog. I bought multidrive enclosures that can run a miniATX mobo with a AMD Ryzen 5G and the thing uses half the power with 8 drives. And can serve video natively.
It's a sad thing when technology passes reasonable kit by.
@mvilain @BasicAppleGuy Yes, indeed. I put a lot of money into mine at the time (gearing up for film music composition, which never quite happened). I used a 256 GB SSD as a primary drive, and that alone cost me over £500 (they're WAY cheaper now). The idea was to maximise speed in aid of orchestral sample library performance, but things move on so fast... :(
Mœllus@BasicAppleGuy oh noze
plorb 
@BasicAppleGuy honestly a great way to upcycle them, especially given the material
"Miss Movie Masochist"
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OmnivoreFour Images:
One, Apple Mac Pro (Late 2013), as a "trash can".
Two, two Apple Power Mac G5 computer cases as drawers.
Three, several Apple Power Mac G5 computer cases as stools.
Four, two Apple Power Mac G5 computer cases supporting a plank as a desk.
jbz@BasicAppleGuy the rack one looks cool tho.
WTL@BasicAppleGuy STAWP
atopoeia-o@BasicAppleGuy Whenever I see any of those Mac Pros for $10 at the swap meet I always pick'em up.
But am usually disappointed to find that they still work. :-/
But am usually disappointed to find that they still work. :-/
Hubert Figuière@BasicAppleGuy given the shortage of componenent, these machine should still be able to be helpful. Don't they?
Florian 'floe' Echtler@BasicAppleGuy In our old computer lab, we had a Power Mac G5 form an important structural part of the lab sofa 👌
kriφm 
☮ ⏚🔻@BasicAppleGuy The problem is that it’s more about giving a second life to the contents than the container.
They’re still good ideas, though
Christian Quest 🌍
Daniel Gomes@BasicAppleGuy Put Linux on the and send them to the third world. Or use them as a home server or NAS
#fitzaroundtheworld
David Sheneman