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Ancient MacPro out of date, what can I do?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1450613" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Oh wow..1GB of memory, you need to upgrade that pronto. That will immediately give this guy a TON of pep..</p><p></p><p><a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory#667-memory" target="_blank">OWC</a> has memory for this Mac and upgrade to as much as you can afford. It can handle a maximum of 32GB and doing that upgrade will run you close to $1000. I would go AT LEAST 4GB, but higher if you can afford it.</p><p></p><p>You don't say how big your hard drive is, and 65GB isn't really enough. You might want to add some additional space (you have enough bays for that), so add a couple of 1-2TB drives..</p><p></p><p>Lastly, you can upgrade up to Lion on this Mac Pro and I would suggest that you save all of your data and do a clean install of Lion.</p><p></p><p>So #1 memory, #2 additional hard drive space, and #3 clean install of Lion and you should have a very capable machine again. The Xeon chips are very potent and you have good bones to start with..</p><p></p><p>Full details of your Mac Pro if you are interested: <a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-2.0-specs.html" target="_blank">http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-2.0-specs.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1450613, member: 110816"] Oh wow..1GB of memory, you need to upgrade that pronto. That will immediately give this guy a TON of pep.. [URL="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory#667-memory"]OWC[/URL] has memory for this Mac and upgrade to as much as you can afford. It can handle a maximum of 32GB and doing that upgrade will run you close to $1000. I would go AT LEAST 4GB, but higher if you can afford it. You don't say how big your hard drive is, and 65GB isn't really enough. You might want to add some additional space (you have enough bays for that), so add a couple of 1-2TB drives.. Lastly, you can upgrade up to Lion on this Mac Pro and I would suggest that you save all of your data and do a clean install of Lion. So #1 memory, #2 additional hard drive space, and #3 clean install of Lion and you should have a very capable machine again. The Xeon chips are very potent and you have good bones to start with.. Full details of your Mac Pro if you are interested: [url]http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-2.0-specs.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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