That’s an idea, Ian. When my current iMac gives up the ghost, assuming that it
will, I’ll consider a Mac Pro that’s on sale now for more than £2,000. There
are bound to be many upgrade options available then.
Chris
> On 8 May 15, at 18:52, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris, I think only in the "mac" world (and maybe only Switzerland) would
> anyone buy 4 or 5 year old computer, but the older mac pros are incredibly
> built and so expandable. I paid the price of a new mac mini to get something
> with much better performance and although I will spend that much again on new
> CPUs, graphic card and a PCIe SSD card it should keep me going for quite a
> while and be not far behind a new top line machine in performance but costing
> me a lot less to build
>
> As to card flashing, this basically involves installing different "firmware"
> on a card designed to be installed in a PC but one that will work in a MAC
> however to get full functionality it needs hacked firmware - I am not sure
> why the verb flash is used but I guess because its over in a flash.
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