Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Ancient MacPro out of date, what can I do?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="louishen" data-source="post: 1450615" data-attributes="member: 40142"><p>Your main problem is the fact that you are using a Mac Pro 1.1 with 8 ram slots but you only have 1 gig of ram installed</p><p></p><p>Unless you have done some semi regular maintenance, that old Tiger OS may have inherited a few bugs so an upgrade may be in order.</p><p></p><p>You spare hard disk space is still good, but you can easily add a second SATA drive to add more storage</p><p></p><p>Good news, that is a 6 year old mac, but those things can still give the latest macs a run for the money, just a few upgrades will keep it in the running.</p><p></p><p>RAM. you need to be very very specific about the ram that goes into those. It HAS to be fully buffered ram, which has a different pin layout that the regular PC2-5300 dimms, see this link, a 4 or 8 gig upgrade will really make a difference</p><p><a href="http://www.macramdirect.com/macpro.html#mp1" target="_blank">http://www.macramdirect.com/macpro.html#mp1</a></p><p></p><p>As for the OS, Apple no longer offer Lion on the Apple store, but I have contacted Apple and if you phone their sales line you can still buy OSX 10.7 Lion for $29, that will bring it up to the latest OSX it can support</p><p></p><p>So the new OS, and some decent RAM will let that Mac Pro fly, you still have a solid performer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="louishen, post: 1450615, member: 40142"] Your main problem is the fact that you are using a Mac Pro 1.1 with 8 ram slots but you only have 1 gig of ram installed Unless you have done some semi regular maintenance, that old Tiger OS may have inherited a few bugs so an upgrade may be in order. You spare hard disk space is still good, but you can easily add a second SATA drive to add more storage Good news, that is a 6 year old mac, but those things can still give the latest macs a run for the money, just a few upgrades will keep it in the running. RAM. you need to be very very specific about the ram that goes into those. It HAS to be fully buffered ram, which has a different pin layout that the regular PC2-5300 dimms, see this link, a 4 or 8 gig upgrade will really make a difference [url]http://www.macramdirect.com/macpro.html#mp1[/url] As for the OS, Apple no longer offer Lion on the Apple store, but I have contacted Apple and if you phone their sales line you can still buy OSX 10.7 Lion for $29, that will bring it up to the latest OSX it can support So the new OS, and some decent RAM will let that Mac Pro fly, you still have a solid performer [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Ancient MacPro out of date, what can I do?
Top