BasicAppleGuy1d ago
Second Lives for Discontinued Mac Pros
Show threadMike Torr23h ago
@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.
Show threadMichael 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.

Mar 28 at 10:25pmWeb
Show threadMike Torr10h ago
@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... :(