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Refurbished Mac Pros???
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I wouldn't give up on a used MP from a private party.
I bought a hex core last July as insurance against the features and cost of the nMP. And I bought AppleCare so the machine would be under warranty for three years. I may sell it sooner or later - much of that has to do with the cost of nMP TB peripherals in the next few months.
I am certain there are lots of folks like me who have a 4,1 or 5,1 MP and will be selling and moving to the new machine. Most of us take excellent care of our MPs. I know I do.
I bought a hex core last July as insurance against the features and cost of the nMP. And I bought AppleCare so the machine would be under warranty for three years. I may sell it sooner or later - much of that has to do with the cost of nMP TB peripherals in the next few months.
I am certain there are lots of folks like me who have a 4,1 or 5,1 MP and will be selling and moving to the new machine. Most of us take excellent care of our MPs. I know I do.
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I found a mid 2012 used dual 6 core, with 24BG of memory, hardly used. Very excited ... gonna install my programs and libraries - probably about 2 days of work. But I know that the end is in sight and I shall have a working Mac Pro again! Thanks one and all for the heads up on Apple and the other information. BTW, refurb.me is a very cool site- It immediately messaged me with exactly what was available ... worked like they claimed it would.
That's very cool, I have just got that exact model new from Scrumpymacs.
It's pretty impressive coming from an ageing 3,1
64bit Geekbench score was about 2980 single and 15,890 multi IIRC
With SSD on an apricorn card it "flies"
I will be very happy for at least three years.
M.
I would prefer not to say - but I think it was a reasonable deal. Especially considering how much the refurbs from Apple are going for today. I got it off eBay by the way. Similar machines out there now all going for around the same price that I won mine for. Great thing was that the seller was local and dropped it off - it didn't have to be bumped around by a delivery service. I'm just excited to be moving into the modern Mac Pro world.
Obsolete in terms of getting new software. But in a business environment or a purpose built application the computer only becomes obsolete when it can no longer do the job it was designed for. That can happen LONG after the software updates stop rolling out.
Even though my Mac is "obsolete" as far as Apple is concerned it does what I need it to do very well and as long as it can do that then I'm good. About the only thing that would make my Mac unusable at this point would be iTunes not working on it and even then it would have to get to a point where some other device doesn't work with the version of iTunes I have.
I'm just saying, for an 8 year old computer I am pretty impressed
it literally obliterates it in single core task....the only mac pros worth having are the dual processors 4.1-5.1 ones at high clock speeds..but buying them rite now at apples prices is dumb. there is loads of them on ebay you could maybe get a 5.1 quad for a grand
I don't recommend the usedmacs.com website. When I was in the market for my oMP I checked them out and their prices were SO MUCH LOWER that I was suspicious and looked for customer reviews to see if the company was scamming people. Turns out, there was review after review of people getting bad hardware or bad/non-existent customer service, either couldn't return their computer or did but never got a refund. Grade B hardware or worse - that was the impression I got, and all of a sudden it made sense why they were charging such low prices. Just FYI for anyone interested.
Have never ordered from PowerMax but they seem to be legit, if not a little high priced in comparison to others like macofalltrades.com.
I bought a Mac from macofalltrades.com many years ago and it served me well for a long time. (It still runs but I no longer use it.) So they are a good company to buy from.
I finally purchased my oMP from OWC (macsales.com). Bought a 4,1 and flashed it to 5,1 and upgraded the processor to a w3680. All for about $1500 (including shipping). Still have a RAM and GPU upgrade to do, but am VERY pleased with it.
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Oh of course! Apple refurbs automatically have the so-called "Apple tax" (meaning the higher prices that Apple charges) built into the cost. That's what's so great about other used/refurb sites like OWC, macofalltrades.com, powermax.com, etc., and in your case, ebay. Sounds like you got a great deal and the local drop-off was a bonus. Congrats!
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I picked up a 3,33gHz Hex core 2012 two weeks ago.
Was not a refurb but a "brand new in box" version.
Have been setting it up over the last week or so with a USB3.0 Inateck card
an Apricorn velocity solo card for SSD & all the installs/Drives etc.
It flies - I'm really pleased with it, nothing to do with graphics for me, it's a
music writing / production tool.
@ 64bit with Logic X it's working beautifully and a few missing 64bit plugins
are handled by the Sound radix 32 lives - wrapper.
I couldn't be more happy, it's powerful and fills all my needs with PCI cards
etc.
I have no external drives connected, only weekly backups via USB3.0 to a
Icybox Raid drive.
M.
Was not a refurb but a "brand new in box" version.
Have been setting it up over the last week or so with a USB3.0 Inateck card
an Apricorn velocity solo card for SSD & all the installs/Drives etc.
It flies - I'm really pleased with it, nothing to do with graphics for me, it's a
music writing / production tool.
@ 64bit with Logic X it's working beautifully and a few missing 64bit plugins
are handled by the Sound radix 32 lives - wrapper.
I couldn't be more happy, it's powerful and fills all my needs with PCI cards
etc.
I have no external drives connected, only weekly backups via USB3.0 to a
Icybox Raid drive.
M.