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 the life of a 7200 with a different PCI card, and am contemplating whether to try the same with this Pro. I won't go ahead if the upgrade is not commonly successful. Ta Tim Sent from my iPhone 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 '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> -- 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>
