Time to sell 2009 Mac Pro?

[netkas]

it's exactly time to sell 2009 mac pro now. while it still has values.

Another two years, when last cmp will become unsupproted, these machine will have no value

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

it's exactly time to sell 2009 mac pro now. while it still has values.

Another two years, when last cmp will become unsupproted, these machine will have no value

If a new Mac (any model) running Sierra can connect with Thunderbolt 3 to an external box that has a GPU and storage then the cMP is truly over. The days of arguments about silly details will be finished.

 

[TonyK]

The old MP is something that requires hobbyist interest to keep going. It's also such an old machine that you should be prepared for it to break down and being too expensive to make the repairs worth the price. Lack of support for the hardware does of course mean that repair parts might not be available officially or that they are more expensive. Still there is very little Apple can offer to the MP users with or without support.
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My wife's 2009 MP had a dead power supply between Christmas 2015 and New Year's 2016. The price for replacement was about $400. There was no computer we could buy her that would handle her work for $400. It was a no brainer to take the unit 100 miles south and have them replace the power supply.

Does she need all that power? No. She is a writer and the most stress her system sees is from all the open tabs in Firefox, having iTunes running and multiple sessions of Word. But she does not like all-in-one computers (aka iMac) or crippled computers (aka MacMini) so the MacPro was her only choice when we purchased it.

The reason the lack of official support past 10.11 is a factor for me is because, like I said, I had hoped to use this computer for 2-3 years or even more. ...

My 2008 MP has been on the obsolete list a bit longer but that doesn't stop me. Heck it still runs the 2600 video because the 5770 (Apple Flashed unit) had too much static/show/interference to make it worthwhile.

The system is maxed out at 32GB of memory, runs a 500GB SD (besides the 1TB and 3TB internal drive) and does what I need/want just fine.

Whether you should keep or sale comes down to just a few things. Does the computer do what you want at a speed you are satisfied with? Can you still find parts for it? This includes using eBay or MacSales. Will the last supported OS work for you? For me we've settled down to 10.10 (Yosemite) for the desktops and the MacMini and laptops are on 10.11 (El Capitan). Sadly we had already had 1 laptop with it before finding out Disk Utility was trash in 10.11. So I took the other smaller systems to 10.11 and the desktops at 10.10.

Now if you have requirements for specific software and if that software requires a base OS, then that will be a driver in deciding how to proceed. If that is not the case, then sit back and enjoy your 2009 MP.

 

[nigelbb]

My 2008 MP has been on the obsolete list a bit longer but that doesn't stop me. Heck it still runs the 2600 video because the 5770 (Apple Flashed unit) had too much static/show/interference to make it worthwhile.

The system is maxed out at 32GB of memory, runs a 500GB SD (besides the 1TB and 3TB internal drive) and does what I need/want just fine.

I bought my Mac Pro 3,1 brand new from Apple in 2008 & it is now maxed out to 56GB RAM (it will take 64GB but then the PCI-e SSD speed drops to half - there is a thread about this on the forum). It has a GTX680 2GB that I flashed myself to provide a boot screen. It has 2 x 1TB Samsung Evo 850 in RAID-0 on a Capricorn Velocity Duo PCI-e card. It naturally has a four port USB 3.0 card. I am driving a 40" 4K monitor @60Hz via DP. It still does all I need including editing 4K video in the latest version of Premiere Pro & FCP X. It already has the 3.2GHz CPUs so the only upgrade left to squeeze the last ounce of performance would be more powerful graphics card plus an Amfeltec Squid with SM951s which may also allow an upgrade to 64GB RAM.

 

[adam9c1]

I have a 2009 cMP. 3x2.66
48GB
10.11.3
This is my main machine. I do TONS of web surfing on it.
I use Chrome with several windows, each including20 (static) tabs usually.
My boot drive is 256GB SSD connected to a PCI-E and it has about 200GB free space.
I have several 3.5 sata drives.

I do run a few VMs (3 max ever) running Windows via VMware Fusion and they are tailored properly.

I do use Chrome as my browser.
Is Chrome the culprit?
Since moving from Yosemite to El Capitan (via clean install and manual update / import of data) I have seen the web browser slower and OS a little slower.

I have a good amount of stored data in SATA on this unit, I don't want to get rid of.
My video adapter is nvidia GT 640 (double slot, does not need extra power connection(), no display at boot.

My particular needs are a little different.
While I don't NEED to run the latest OS on THIS machine, I do need to run latest and greatest on a few boxes to do my IT TECH training on them.