Lots of life left in Mac Pro 1,1

Horses for courses as they say. When this Mac Pro came up for buy-it-now I bought it. Why a 17 year-old Mac? This model is a workhorse for certain applications. RAM is upgradable to 32 gb. Four hard drives can be mounted on sleds, hot swappable. This allows me to run older operating systems with plenty of storage for video and audio files. It runs at a respectable bus speed (faster than any laptop or I-Mac of that era. Ample USB and firewire ports. Its cheese grater design is not sexy-looking, but better than the bizarre flower pot or wastebasket design of other Macs. More versatile than a Mac Mini, it accepts a variety of video cards. Since it lives under my desk, I care not for looks or for latest, only for performance on my applications, which include older versions of Quark, Adobe, Final Cut Pro and various audio applications. The Mac Pro 1,1 will run Lion and may be coaxed or tweaked into running Yosemite. It will run a legacy version of Firefox also. But that's all I need from an $80 computer. Every OS upgrade from Mac makes more older software obsolete, requiring more investment or paying rental for Cloud access. BTW: I am still running some applications on OS 9.2 and OS 10.4.11 on G4 and G5 Macs. Ask not what purchasing newer Mac will do for Apple's bottom line. Ask instead what a cost-effective older Mac will do for you!!!Read full review

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