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 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/10/2012, at 4:17 PM, Tim Law <t...@peoplehelp.com.au> wrote: > 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 Mac > Mini - Late 2009 model and so various software has been updated and I cannot > simply import all my data onto the MacPro running Lion, hence am interested > to see if I can get the MacPro running on Mountain Lion. > > There is a blog at http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47 that seems to be well > regarded as a solution, and involves purchasing a Radeon HD 5770 kit from the > Apple Store $249, plus fiddling with installing a different boot system on an > extra internal drive. > > My query is has anyone had any success with this upgrade? > Alternatively, I can set it up to run Lion and let one of the family use it. > > I realise that by spending money on the Mac Pro, a five year old machine, > that sooner or later it will become redundant once again, unable, like my > iPad 1, to move to the newest OS. > > Tim > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: smime.p7s > Type: application/pkcs7-signature > Size: 5099 bytes > Desc: not available > Url : > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121007/695fede0/attachment.bin > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121007/58a85c05/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
