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redheeler

macrumors G3
Oct 17, 2014
8,419
8,838
Colorado, USA
Fresh install of a 256 GB 850 EVO SSD and MacOS Sierra. Always surprises me how well the latest and greatest runs on a 6-year-old Mac. Think I have some spare RAM I can throw into here as well.
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NOTNlCE

macrumors 65816
Oct 11, 2013
1,087
476
Baltimore, MD
Picked this guy up today on Craigslist for $350. Came with 16GB of RAM, I had what's in it now lying around. I guess that's one of the benefits to retiring so many servers for a living. Graphics card update incoming, as soon as I can flash my 6870....
 

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Apple_Glen_UK

macrumors 65816
Oct 26, 2015
1,106
14,271
West Sussex, England
I'm relatively new to Macs and despite trawling through this website a lot over the past year or so, I have only just stumbled across this section so thought I'd quickly add my story!

I purchased my first Mac (a retina MacBook Pro, 2015) a couple of years ago after years of Windows computers. I had been using an 11-year old desktop Dell PC which had become unbearably slow - 5-10 minutes just to start up, whereas my MBP is ready and good-to-go in about 8-10 seconds!

I absolutely love it although, to be honest, it's probably massively over-spec'd for what I need but I decided I wanted something of real quality that would last me a good few years. I mainly use it for storing my music and photos, browsing the net and writing that I do for a magazine. I opted for 512GB SSD and still have tonnes of space so - all being well - it should last me years.

I haven't upgraded from Yosemite which is what it came installed with purely because it runs just fine, is lightning quick so I'm of the thinking 'if it ain't broke...'

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macbwizard

macrumors 6502
May 23, 2005
282
54
Mac Pro 2,1 running 10.11 (very well) through some tweaking. Officially only supported to 10.7.
 

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darksilentsiren

macrumors member
Jul 2, 2017
52
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Ordered the caddy for ssd already. Going to get the samsung 500GB SSD. maybe in a few months i wanna get new ram memory of 16gb not sure really?
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For what it's worth:
how did yo get sierra on yoru laptop?
 

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macgeek18

macrumors 68000
Sep 8, 2009
1,847
729
Northern California
ive got the same mac mini love it its my first mac computer when i came back to apple in late 09 ive not used a apple computer since 92 when i got my mini right now its running el captain and streaming my music from late 2015 27in 5k imac for a music machine
I sold it after buying my MacBook Air. Wish I would have kept it though.
 

Antares23

macrumors regular
Aug 15, 2014
244
354
Chartres, France
Yeah I know, it's ugly, right ? But it works great, I mean it doesn't take that much space (no bigger than a Xbox 360 for the SFF model I have), and it have good expandability (Quad-core 3GHz Xeon CPU mod, 16GB of RAM, PCIe GPU, full size 3.5inch HDD), and you can find one for 40$ (it only costed me 40€, I already had the RAM, HDD and GPU), and you can make it work with OS X pretty easily so I don't think I made a bad choice ^^
 
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Antares23

macrumors regular
Aug 15, 2014
244
354
Chartres, France
I agree that the before-790 series is cheap plastic, and pretty ugly, but I had to choose between USFF 790 for 80€ (so no PCI-e gpu, and I really needed HDMI, because my TV doesn't have VGA, DVI or DP input) or SFF 780 for 40€ (on the french craiglist around me), I didn't had that much choice, and it's hidden behind my 40inch TV so you don't see the ugly duckling ;)
And even-tho they're build like crap, they last pretty long, I have a 320 from 2005/2006, still going strong, but I don't have much use for it (except for old Windows XP games, and even tho for that there's Virtualbox)
Even tho I'm thinking about upgrading to a 990 (So I would FINALLY switch to iX CPU), or to buy a cheap 15$ 3GHz Quad Core Xeon and 2GB of RAM to upgrade to 8GB ;)
 
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