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MP 1,1-5,1 HELP! My mac Pro is too old to update! What can i do?!
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Did you use the browser link I gave you? Did you use Dayo's link and use that browser? None of the big name browsers are being supported for Snow Leopard anymore. Smaller browsers, like TenfourFox, should work because they are being updated.
Think of your Mac Pro as being a car from the 1910's. Can it get you from point A to point B? Yes it can. But it requires a lot of work to use and maintain, and most people would have no idea how to use or maintain it.
Yes an old pc would be leaps and bounds better than a Mac machine. I have an old pc running XP that is better than this 40lb paperweight
I bet it is not 18 years old but either way, why not just use that and save your time along with that of everyone else?
Its being utilized for other purposes. I have many machines, some old, some new and all but this Mac are in use. Which is why im here, trying to get advice on this machine ratger being tokd what else i "should" do with another machine.
Sadly, NONE of the common browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome) will "work" on Snow Leopard You'll need special web browsers to access HTTPS websites and to get access to that login page.
Either use those browsers, or don't use those browsers and don't have access to the webpage.
Unless that website has older versions of the software for download (which *might* be a possibility), he's going to be in for an unpleasant surprise when it doesn't install
LOL, its Apple's fault you can't use a 17 year old machine to do what your 7 year old HP is now annoyingly slow at?
Considering it was never your intention to give a Mac a fair trial I don't know what to tell you.
You seriously want to edit video on a 17 year old machine?
Then why do you expect a machine that is 10 years older than that to perform better?
So use it.
Skeptical hippo is.... skeptical. Many people here are trying to help you but I don't think you have realistic expectations.
Have fun loading Windows 11 on a 2006 PC. You might get it installed but it will be painful, using it will be worse.
Old is relative. The 2015 laptop I am typing on now is old but an MP11 is in the ancient spectrum of old.
Anyway, you sought and got advice on what the MacPro is capable of doing. You can accept the advice or rant about it instead but that unit will not run software that requires drivers that are only supported on macOS 10.14 Mojave regardless.
@Mysticdrummer Probably more effort and patience than you are willing to give but give it a read -
blog.greggant.com
The Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006-2012) Upgrade Guide
The largest/most-complete guide to all possible classic Mac Pro upgrades covering OS, Firmware, GPU, CPU, Storage, USB, THunderbolt and Network upgrades.
blog.greggant.com
I missed that part :O .
IF he has the appropriate, period related software (Adobe whatever was around then? Apple Final Cut Studio?) AND he has the appropriate videos (1080P will be the absolute limit) and the appropriate RAM (16 GB?)? Go for it. Import videos from a recent iPhone and edit those?
*Shudder*
Windows 10, and its already done, not painful at all took about 12 minutes...and its useable again ;-)
It had imovie editor on it already, plenty of ram and the movies are shot on a galaxy and gopro. I wouldnt dream of wasting money on an iphone. But its all moot now as ive upgraded the os to windows and can use the machine again.
I'm following this thread/post just to see if that company has drivers/ software for his machine. They have a drop down box for old software, and it does include options for Panther
O), but there are no links for software for Panther.Its now a windows machine, but thanks for the input.I'm following this thread/post just to see if that company has drivers/ software for his machine. They have a drop down box for old software, and it does include options for Panther
So you wiped the Mac Pro 1,1, and in 12 minutes installed a working Window 10 system?
Screenshot please. It's a pain in the neck to install Windows 10 on a Mac Pro 1,1 because you have to use VMWare Fusion.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...allation-no-bootloaders-or-efi-hacks.1905564/
Or care to share your instructions on how you did that?
Nothing requires more patience than talking to apple people in this thread lol. Ive got all the patience in the world.@Mysticdrummer Probably more effort and patience than you are willing to give but give it a read -
The Definitive Classic Mac Pro (2006-2012) Upgrade Guide
The largest/most-complete guide to all possible classic Mac Pro upgrades covering OS, Firmware, GPU, CPU, Storage, USB, THunderbolt and Network upgrades.
Suppose that is a good option. It should also be able to run Linux
We are aligned on that one! Hate the damn things.
I partitioned and downloaded windows 10 iso yesterday and stepped away. Didnt take long to install and set up
What are the step by step instructions that you used to install Windows 10, and why did FlyInMac at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...allation-no-bootloaders-or-efi-hacks.1905564/ had to use such a long complex process to get Windows 10 installed on his machine?
It'll really help out other members for you to share this information with us.
Dont know why it took so long, pretty simple. Downloading the image to a stick took longer than the rest of the process
Open bootcamp, partition the drive, download windows 10 iso onto usb 2.0, run bootcamp, install windows, set it up as usual. Very simple
Then you either do not have a Mac Pro 1,1 OR you're trolling OR you're not finished installing. There's a 32/64 bit issue with the machine that requires a lot of work arounds for Windows 10 to work correctly under bootcamp and for it to boot.
How do I know? I have a Mac Pro 1,1 myself as well.
Will I send you the links? Nope. Because I don't want you to come back with a rebuttal.
To be clear, I wasn't suggesting a replacement PC has to be Dell. There seem to be several brands to choose from on Amazon, including HP and Lenovo.
Not sure what using Linux has to do with hating Dell though. Dell even sells Linux-based machines themselves.
There are Mac computers out there from the Windows XP era that are just as useful as that Windows XP machine is - that is, they can't get critical security updates, don't have a proper way to browse the web anymore, are horribly slow, and have failing or close-to-failing parts. Just like those old Windows XP computers, there are still people who occasionally find a use for them. I mentioned my iMac G3 earlier. That machine first came out in 1998. There's even an entire forum on here for PowerPC Macs, which were discontinued the same year your Mac Pro came out. And while Apple releases new Macs every year these days, almost nobody actually buys a new Mac every single year, and the ones who do get ridiculed on here for doing it (unless they have a system going where they sell their old one as part of the plan).
We Mac users know our machines are expensive, and that we could get a Windows machine with similar specs for less money. We choose not to do that because we feel, for various reasons, that owning a Mac is worth the extra cost to us. It's very much like your aversion to Dell computers. You know you can get a Dell really cheap but turn the offer down because you don't want to use a Dell. Similarly, we know we can get a Windows computer really cheap but we turn the offer down because we don't want to use Windows. It has nothing to do with setting money on fire.
I also really don't think you should throw this thing in the garbage (or "unload multiple magazines into it" as you suggested earlier) if you ultimately can't make use of it for anything yourself. That would be sad and wasteful. I'd suggest instead you find a way (eBay, Craigslist, asking around locally, etc.) to get it in the hands of someone who will enjoy and appreciate it for what it is in a way you clearly can't.
Maybe you can download the setup on another computer and upload it to a file sharing service so you can download it to your Mac Pro that way. Or your could use a flash drive to transfer it. If your Snow Leopard is older than 10.6.5 you will want to make sure the flash drive is formatted in FAT32 or NTFS. Otherwise it can also be formatted in exFAT.
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