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Mac Pro 5,1...what for?
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eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
I use my 4,1 (upgraded to 5,1) as my primary Mac. Graphic design, web browsing, word processing, email, music streaming, video watching, Youtube, games, messaging, pretty much anything I need a computer to do. And I'm using Mojave.
Oh, did I mention I have seven screens attached? See the link in my signature.
B S Magnet
macrumors 603
This reminds me of that Shel Silverstein parable of the kid who watched so much TV he became a TV himself.
One day, I suspect you might wake up as a multi-panelled LCD display shouting on screen: “NO SIGNAL. PLUG IN COFFEE.”
Your family… won’t have questions. 😀
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
My wife and son will know what to do, he's in IT and she got me into coffee. 😀This reminds me of that Shel Silverstein parable of the kid who watched so much TV he became a TV himself.
One day, I suspect you might wake up as a multi-panelled LCD display shouting on screen: “NO SIGNAL. PLUG IN COFFEE.”
Your family… won’t have questions. 😀
But really, I should actually be a Commodore 64 by now. I spent days during summer vacation in junior high/high school in front of that computer. 😉
B S Magnet
macrumors 603
“OK Mom, let me try power-cycling him as you send him signal to his coffee port…”
wicknix
macrumors 68030
I have the same machine except with 64gb ram, 4 SSD’s, and a crappier video card. Good question. Mine has 10.6 / 10.7 / 10.11 / 10.13 / 10.15 and Linux installed on it. I fire it up about once a month to build new releases of SeaLion. Other than that it sits powered off 99% of the time. I much prefer using my iMac as it takes up less space and energy for daily tasks. Would i get rid of it? No. It’s a beast of a machine that can handle anything thrown at it and supports tons of operating systems. It’s just not practical for my daily needs.
Cheers
TheShortTimer
macrumors 68040
This reminds me of that Shel Silverstein parable of the kid who watched so much TV he became a TV himself.
Which in turn reminds me of the warnings from my mum that my eyes would turn square from an overconsumption of TV.
I suppose if 16:9 TVs had been available back then, the warning would've been of rectangular eyes. 😀
chaosbunny
macrumors 68020
Put in some cheap spinning hard drives and use it for local backups of all your devices/data.
Install Windows via Bootcamp and use it as a gaming machine.
That's what I use mine for these days.
MultiFinder17
macrumors 68030
I'm in the same boat - I retired my 5,1 as my main Mac last year and have been struggling to find a niche for it to fill since. Its resale value doesn't really justify selling it, and given that it's still pretty beefy it seems a shame not to put it to use somewhere, but I'm also enjoying not running my Apple Space Heater any longer.
TheShortTimer
macrumors 68040
This is a particularly great idea. You can take it to the hilt by installing USB 3.0 and eSATA cards and fill the drive bays with 7200RPM spinners. This is what I've done with my Mac Pro to help me manage my ever-increasing archive of TV recordings. The results have been incredible and it's a 1,1 machine - let alone a 5,1. 🙂