Only thing we've not been able to get to work on that motherboard is the Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C .... but it's a very new MB so that could change in the future.
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Only thing we've not been able to get to work on that motherboard is the Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C .... but it's a very new MB so that could change in the future.
I hope they put some consideration in making it competitive with gaming PC’s.
I would suggest a design path...
Featuring modularity and broad compatibility with amd nvidia and intel graphics.
I would start with a fanless design, with a tall chimney for convection. Then addressing extreme thermal demands with a very large fan with high static pressure, such as the NB e-loop. I would let the whole thing be be big, I would inclube a 5.25” drive bay neatly hidden, I would have the final design be faceless, but with the option of rotating it to have the drive bay front facing, or rotated to be occluded. A 5.25 is arguably past obsolescence even in the windows world. But it provides insurance for unforseen technologies, it attracts third party upgrades, and gives the user some customizable options with status displays, fan controllers, card readers, legacy io, and future io. Not everyone wants a firewire 400 port for accessing old files, but a healthy tribe of third party 5.25” drive bay offerings brings a certain cool factor and nourishment for the mod-itch. 5.25” may be too old hat, and perhaps something proprietary would bring about a renaissance of “daughterboard” style modification educating kids on ways to build/ code their own hardware gozmos with a sort of Apple designed raspberry pi dock.
[doublepost=1546072051][/doublepost]I propose a new product be launched with the Mac Pro, called the Apple-pie, a hobbiest/educational device that can aslo dock with or outright augment the external Mac Pro case in cool customizable ways. Giving third party engineers a plaything to code and toggle for other MacPro users to then buy from the app store to augment their own Applie pie and plug into their Macpro as an outboard system display like an activity-monitor or fan controller that can customize an otherwise static design, while retaining all the inherent elegance of a monolithic design. It’s a great successor product to the airport express, because sometimes you’re a teenager learning to code, with no budget for a homepod and you need that airplay 2, or a wireless connection for an ethernet game console you can’t afford to modernize, and you use it as temperature monitor in your dog house chicken coop and beehive, or a wind monitor, or to monitor the power meter with an infrared port. Soo much juicy hobby options to really boost “everyone can code” to the next level. Maybe it’s ios? Maybe it’s something else all together.
I would suggest a design path...
Featuring modularity and broad compatibility with amd nvidia and intel graphics.
I would start with a fanless design, with a tall chimney for convection. Then addressing extreme thermal demands with a very large fan with high static pressure, such as the NB e-loop. I would let the whole thing be be big, I would inclube a 5.25” drive bay neatly hidden, I would have the final design be faceless, but with the option of rotating it to have the drive bay front facing, or rotated to be occluded. A 5.25 is arguably past obsolescence even in the windows world. But it provides insurance for unforseen technologies, it attracts third party upgrades, and gives the user some customizable options with status displays, fan controllers, card readers, legacy io, and future io. Not everyone wants a firewire 400 port for accessing old files, but a healthy tribe of third party 5.25” drive bay offerings brings a certain cool factor and nourishment for the mod-itch. 5.25” may be too old hat, and perhaps something proprietary would bring about a renaissance of “daughterboard” style modification educating kids on ways to build/ code their own hardware gozmos with a sort of Apple designed raspberry pi dock.
[doublepost=1546072051][/doublepost]I propose a new product be launched with the Mac Pro, called the Apple-pie, a hobbiest/educational device that can aslo dock with or outright augment the external Mac Pro case in cool customizable ways. Giving third party engineers a plaything to code and toggle for other MacPro users to then buy from the app store to augment their own Applie pie and plug into their Macpro as an outboard system display like an activity-monitor or fan controller that can customize an otherwise static design, while retaining all the inherent elegance of a monolithic design. It’s a great successor product to the airport express, because sometimes you’re a teenager learning to code, with no budget for a homepod and you need that airplay 2, or a wireless connection for an ethernet game console you can’t afford to modernize, and you use it as temperature monitor in your dog house chicken coop and beehive, or a wind monitor, or to monitor the power meter with an infrared port. Soo much juicy hobby options to really boost “everyone can code” to the next level. Maybe it’s ios? Maybe it’s something else all together.
I’m personally happy with my trash can but did get it heavily discounted.
People who are talking about using windows don’t seem bothered by the fact the interface is so ugly and littered with so much terrible design decisions. I work in a design school and staff and students mac use is around 99% partly for this reason. We do have a pc render farm for animation students so I am aware of the advantages too. Could use it every day though
People who are talking about using windows don’t seem bothered by the fact the interface is so ugly and littered with so much terrible design decisions. I work in a design school and staff and students mac use is around 99% partly for this reason. We do have a pc render farm for animation students so I am aware of the advantages too. Could use it every day though
I have a hunch that the new Mac Pro will be released mid to late 2019 along with a new OS. The downside will be that it will not use standard PCI-e cards and will not use a DVD superdrive. Why would it?: the 2013 didn't. It will be modular; however, unlike the 2013. Apple will develop their own expansion cards. The new Mac Pro will be expensive. I bought a 2013 and gave up my 2012. Bad mistake. I'm hoping that the 2012 will not be "vintagized", but I pretty sure it will. I just bought another 2012. I'm going to use it until fizzles.
So apparently we now have the Thunderbolt 3/USB-C working on the Hackintosh. Just thought I'd give an update. I'm currently writing this on my i9 Hackintosh workstation.
I bought the 2013 Mac Pro myself. Pre-ordered it around Jan 2014, and it didn't even arrive until early March 2014. I went for the 8-core, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD too.
Still my main workstation to this day. I absolutely run everything on it, still doesn't really feel slow yet. I'm also running 2-VMs off it. One is my production Windows 10 system where I run all my Windows app off as well as run putty, winscp, text pad, and do some web dev work in Perl.
My only issue was when I was in High Sierra... boy, that O/S hated the Mac Pro. Kept crashing with GPU related issues. Mojave solved everything. No more crashing. I almost thought it was hardware and bought a MacBook Pro as a backup in case the Mac Pro is close to end of its life.
It's an investment that I'm still giving back to me. I don't think I really need to replace it for a few more years; unlike my gaming system (BYO PC) that I upgrade every 2-3 years.
Prior to that I purchased a Grilled 2009 Mac Pro with 8-core as well. I upgraded it to 32GB RAM and 480GB SSD from Macsales and Sapphire Radeon GPU. It was the pro I graduated from Hackintosh. Hacktintosh got me hooked on MacOS, but it's unreliability for upgrades made me bit the bullet and just buy a MacPro. But man carrying it around was a pain. The second Intel Mac Pro I got was the "trashcan" style... and man much faster, and so much easier to move. It got me hooked on mini iTX gaming rigs. I still have my BlackBird 002 case (full tower gaming case), that weighs over 50lbs! Loved it back in the day, but don't think I can go back to ATX after experiencing iTX and Mac Pro's.
Still my main workstation to this day. I absolutely run everything on it, still doesn't really feel slow yet. I'm also running 2-VMs off it. One is my production Windows 10 system where I run all my Windows app off as well as run putty, winscp, text pad, and do some web dev work in Perl.
My only issue was when I was in High Sierra... boy, that O/S hated the Mac Pro. Kept crashing with GPU related issues. Mojave solved everything. No more crashing. I almost thought it was hardware and bought a MacBook Pro as a backup in case the Mac Pro is close to end of its life.
It's an investment that I'm still giving back to me. I don't think I really need to replace it for a few more years; unlike my gaming system (BYO PC) that I upgrade every 2-3 years.
Prior to that I purchased a Grilled 2009 Mac Pro with 8-core as well. I upgraded it to 32GB RAM and 480GB SSD from Macsales and Sapphire Radeon GPU. It was the pro I graduated from Hackintosh. Hacktintosh got me hooked on MacOS, but it's unreliability for upgrades made me bit the bullet and just buy a MacPro. But man carrying it around was a pain. The second Intel Mac Pro I got was the "trashcan" style... and man much faster, and so much easier to move. It got me hooked on mini iTX gaming rigs. I still have my BlackBird 002 case (full tower gaming case), that weighs over 50lbs! Loved it back in the day, but don't think I can go back to ATX after experiencing iTX and Mac Pro's.
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