I have BT 4.0 dongle and a AC wifi 5ghz card
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Have you ever used any Mac running El Capitan on a 5400 RPM HDD? Seriously, go to the Apple store and try it, they have that embarrassment right there on displayDespite having an SSD, the 1,1s are hobbled by a lot of old tech. At least a decade old! I'm sure people will still be able to find uses for it but it will be doing so in far, far less efficiently than new machines.
You guys can believe what you want but you're not going to convince me that it feels faster than a current gen iMac.
I cant EFI boot windows 10 64 bit (well not yet any way, i did manage to EFI boot windows 10 32bit on it )
Take out your HDD, start Windows 10 x64 installation on any PC (I've read that it has to be UEFI but I've done it on old Dell with Legacy BIOS), and after the first reboot turn off your PC, put the drive back into Mac, finish installation and enjoy your 64 bit Windows on Mac Pro 1,1!
I even had to set SATA Controllers in DELL on ATA instead AHCI to start installation, and there wasn't any problems.
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A PCI-e SSD is a great solution for a boot drive. For the 1,1 and 2,1s, it's the only solution that I'm aware of since all the PCI-e SATA 3 adaptors I've seen don't support booting on these models.
Sure, the CPUs for these models can be found at extremely low prices now. However, you have to consider that these CPUs use a lot of power. I believe TDP is around 120W per CPU. Modern systems are far more efficient.
Yes, there are more multi core aware apps now, but there are still tons that aren't.
Investing in a powerful video card also makes little sense to me because it will be contained by the PCI-e 1.0 spec.
VT-D is an awesome technology and can make for lots of fun and experimenting. I wish OS X supported it. I would love to be able to use it to for some testing without having to reboot.
With prices of the 3,1s dropping to about $300-400 levels on eBay, I fail to see the attractiveness in investing time and money to upgrade 1,1s and 2,1s. The 3,1s eliminated many of the bottlenecks of its predecessors.
Who cares? It could be the older OS has less overhead, or something software-related like that.You guys can believe what you want but you're not going to convince me that it feels faster than a current gen iMac.
You guys can believe what you want but you're not going to convince me that it feels faster than a current gen iMac.