i love Mac computers and I’m constantly buying them. I was wondering if buying a Mac Pro (tower) in late 2018 will be okay to have and tinker with for a couple years? If so, bring that it’s 2018, which one should I am to get to work on and upgrade on my etc.?
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No, perhaps the next after Mojave and all the iTunes/Safari/Security Updates released for the next two years after the last supported macOS for MP5,1 was released.
So, at this point, even if Mojave will be the last officially supported, we will have iTunes/Safari/Security Updates until at least the second semester of 2020 - 2021 if we get one more release.
Can you elaborate what you mean by "tinker with"? No one can say how much longer the 5,1 Mac Pro will be supported by Apple. What we do know is that if they stop releasing further macOS updates for it the current version, Mojave, will be supported for a couple of years to come. That should be sufficient to tied you over for the couple of years you mentioned you'd like to get out of it.
I just want a home computer that can handle work loads like final cut etc, and a computer that I can not be chained down to processor, ram, hard drives and graphics card. Something I can build up to a descent workhorse computer.
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With graphics cards, you are limited to AMD cards if you want to run Mojave, as there are currently no drivers for Nvidia cards yet. If you go back to High Sierra, however, there are drivers for Nvidia stuff that work well.
If none of those shortcomings bothers you, then the cMP makes a cheap workstation that can still perform amazingly well for a 10 year old computer.
You are kind of chained down to the CPU and RAM in a cMP, as in you can't go any newer than Westmere Xeon processors or use faster than 1333mhz RAM. With hard drives, the sky is pretty much the limit, and you can even boot from NVMe using PCIe adapters now.
With graphics cards, you are limited to AMD cards if you want to run Mojave, as there are currently no drivers for Nvidia cards yet. If you go back to High Sierra, however, there are drivers for Nvidia stuff that work well.
If none of those shortcomings bothers you, then the cMP makes a cheap workstation that can still perform amazingly well for a 10 year old computer.
Better go for a 5.1 when it comes to a dual cpu machine. Much less afford with cpu upgrades.
As imo the only correct method to built in cpus is to delid them.
Buying delidded eat the price difference 4.1/5.1 - delid by yourself is risky and I practiced a few times with old xeons - plus heated the solder with a hot air station.
I just refused doing the upgrade of a dual 4.1 of a client - due the relative high risk to brick it.
As imo the only correct method to built in cpus is to delid them.
Buying delidded eat the price difference 4.1/5.1 - delid by yourself is risky and I practiced a few times with old xeons - plus heated the solder with a hot air station.
I just refused doing the upgrade of a dual 4.1 of a client - due the relative high risk to brick it.