Apple Mac Pro talk

Hello everybody and welcome at a new post,

Today I'm going to rant a bit more about the Mac Pro, the reasons for me buying such a big desktop, and my Apple history because I thought that would be fun to include as well, so you guys can see which Mac's I owned in the past.

In a previous post I mentioned ditching the Mac Pro 1.1 idea, and getting a 2008 Mac Pro. Guess what, I'm ditching the 2008 Mac Pro just because I don't have a real job yet. When I turn 16 I can get a good paying job and save up money for a newer and better Mac Pro. I'm going to another school in about 2 years, and in that period I need a lot of horsepower, and in two years I definitely have the money to buy another Mac Pro. For now a 1.1 will do the job. I need more horsepower then my MacBook can deliver, don't get me wrong its a wonderful machine and it keeps up fairly well with the machines of these days but its just not strong enough to do the tasks I ask it. I've got some new classes now and for one I need to use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro and thats why I need another computer. I always wanted a Mac Pro, but my MacBook was doing everything I asked from it, but now I need to do a lot of thing with it, and of course my MacBook just doesn't have enough power. The MacBook is still a wonderful machine, and I will be keeping it for when I travel but after 2 years I just felt it was time for something more powerful. I'm just hoping to get 3 years out of the Mac Pro so I can save up enough money to order a brand new one from Apple, but we'll see. Once I get the Mac there will be a lot of upgrading done so that should be interesting.

A Mac Pro 1.1 is fairly outdated by todays standards, and some of you may be questioning yourselves, why would he spend his money on a computer thats outdated. Well to start with, I don't have a lot of money because I'm to young to work a proper job, and I'm just not feeling spending an extra 300 euro's on a computer when I can get a new desk, an Apple wired keyboard, a Magic Mouse and a secondhand Cinema Display for the same price. The 1.1 will do all that I ask it to do, and the support is not terrible I guess. Yeah its outdated and it can only run 10.7 Lion but I'm using Lion for almost 2 years now and it never crashed on me. If I ever want to upgrade to 10.10 Yosemite or 10.11 El Capitan thats possible and its fairly easy. I just need to buy some more RAM for the machine, depending on how much is installed when I purchase it, and I need to upgrade the graphics card, then I have to change some files and boom. Its ready to run Yosemite, and at that time maybe even El Capitan. So as said before, the support is not terrible it can technically run the newest operating system with some tweaking here and there.

So as I am getting new Mac soon, I thought it would be fun to include my Mac history, so lets get to it. I started with a Mac Mini G4 which I still own because its a very special machine to me It was my first Mac, and that machine changed my life basically, because that computer made me got interested in computer and all sorts of different tech. After the G4, I've upgraded to a PowerMac G5. It was a 2005 PowerMac G5, and I don't remember the specs, I just know that it was the top of the line model. Back then this computer was way to expensive for me but luckily my dad bought a new computer so I got his PowerMac, and it felt like that thing could fly. It was so fast at the time, and especially for a child of my age, I really loved that thing to pieces, but one day it got an error. So I threw it away, and I feel so dumb for doing that because about two months later I found the solution for this error. No, it wasn't the operating system, or a broken hard drive. It was the Airport Extreme which I've never used in my life on that machine. I just had to unplug it from the motherboard and it would run perfectly again. So yeah, always do your research before throwing any broken computers out. But lets move on to the Mac I'm using now. A 2008 MacBook 4.1, the top of the line model with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo and 4 GB's of DDR 2 memory. I love this Mac to pieces and it has done everything I wanted it to do for the last 2 years now, and once again, I'm not upgrading because my MacBook is broken or to slow, because it can handle all day to day tasks, and its really fast if you stick a SSD in it, I just need some more power.

So thats is for this post, it is a long one, but as I'm not posting a lot these days, I thought lets write a long post this time. Thanks for reading and until the next one!