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The initial boot of the the Mac was exceptionally slow and to my surprise it was still running MacOS, I had been sure I had left it with Linux installed. Rebuilding my 2008 Mac Proįirst thing to note, I took no pictures whilst cleaning and upgrading the Mac which in hindsight was stupid, all of the pictures are post resurrection, apologies for this. How to rebuild a mac pro pro#I am now rocking a MacBook Pro “Core i7″ 2.9 15” Touch/Late 2016 a beast of a laptop that more than fulfils my requirements and has scope for expansion via the Thunderbolt 3 ports (graphics cards, SSD drives and the like).Īfter this lengthy digression I best talk about the rebuild. How to rebuild a mac pro install#I continued to use PCs but did make the shift (by a luck of hardware) to running a dual boot Hackingtosh (using tricks to install MacOS on a PC rather than a Mac) allowing me to enjoy the benefits of a Mac ecosystem without having to purchase a new Pro (they thankfully did release a new range, but have once again abandoned it, in all but name).Ībout a year ago I move back fully to a Mac, this time with my needs being significantly different I no longer require a desktop workstation and have found that the new Pro range of MacBooks are excellent. It ended its life not even running MacOS but running Ubuntu as a XBMC media server / client and then got stored behind boxes in my basement after a house move. ![]() How to rebuild a mac pro software#I begrudgingly moved back to the PC, the Mac Pro plodded on, repurposed as a server and occasional Mac specific software platform. ![]() This coupled with a pig headed decision on Apples part to abandon the Pro range for many years (leaving the Pro Mac user in the doldrums) I never ended up in a situation where I felt it was worth my money to buy a new replacement. How to rebuild a mac pro upgrade#I scraped together enough to buy a single processor Early 2008 Mac Pro I could not quite afford to get the dual processor version (something I would regret and considered fixing with the rebuild) but did find the extra cash to add a third party ram upgrade to install a whopping 6 gigabytes.įor many years it was an excellent workstation but after several upgrades that kept it ticking over (new graphics card, SSD upgrade) it had reached a point where I felt that I could no longer use it as my day to day machine. In 2008 I finally bit the bullet and bought my first Mac that I truly considered a comparable and professional replacement to the home built computers I had used in the past. It was time to spend the cash and move into the Mac Pro arena. However I felt like they both lacked the professional and expandable setup I had been used to with home built PCs. Not long after the Mac Mini purchase I was itching for a more powerful Mac and just before Christmas I sold on the Mini and placed an order for a 20″ Late Core 2 Duo iMac, this and the subsequent refurbished Late 2006 MacBook that got lugged back an forth to work each day are still going strong, (the MacBook lacks a suitable battery but that is another future refurb job) and provided me with a brilliant ecosystem to work from. In 2006 I started my journey into switching from being a PC user to a Mac user and between then and 2008 I had several Macs in short succession.įirst came a Early 2006 Mac Mini, a revolution for me as this was my first new, modern Mac and was not clunky, slow and secondhand, it reinforced my move from PC to Mac and I would not flip back for many years (lack of modern pro desktop did it in the end with hackintoshes bridging the gap till now). Switching from PCĪfter years of tinkering around PCs and having dipped my toe into Mac ownership via a selection of secondhand Pre G3 Power Macs (that ultimately ran plan9 in some strange cluster experiment) and then later a old G4 Power Mac. Rebuilding my 2008 Mac Pro, it’s almost 10 years old and has languished for the last year hidden behind boxes, under powered and forgotten, it was time it had an upgrade and I fixed some of the destructive maintenance that had been done to it over the years.īut first a quick history of how and why I ended up purchasing this Mac back in 2008 (If you wish to skip to the rebuild, click here). ![]()
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