I’ve felt a lot of pride in the past in buying a premium product that’s been well designed, easily upgradable, and durable enough to last much longer than other computers; my past MacBook Pros and my Mac Pro have been fantastic investments. Its excellent OS was also a point of pride.
I wouldn’t have a whole lot of pride in having to buy an iMac these days out of necessity, however.
I plan on getting a 2010 Mac Pro and just coasting on that for the next several years. I can’t imagine that going obsolete any time soon (with periodic upgrades, of course), unless Apple goes back to proprietary processors.
[squint-glares at Danny Ricio]
I’d been eyeballing replacements for my 2008 MacPro, but I think I’m just going to replace the hard drives with SSDs and add some more RAM; for my Adobe-suite needs it’s still got several years in it. tbh I’ve also pondered a late-model MacPro tower like yourself.
Yeah I have been pondering whether an SSD and 16GB would be better than just getting a refurb i7 latitude.
The memory is easy enough the hard drive is PITA to swap though.
I do a daily bootable backup with SuperDuper, so my plan is just to make my backup my startup disk, swap in the SSD, and clone my backup back onto it. It’ll take awhile but theoretically shouldn’t be too tough.
I keep all my data in a standard place apps/games just as easy to reinstall as needed… and I am overdue for a fresh windows install anyway so it will probably be a totally fresh image.
I guess you don’t use full disk encryption then.
I kinda disagree. I think both the current Linux Mint and Ubuntu flavours are significantly easier and more user-friendly than the current Windows versions. Non-technical users who are used to Ubuntu normally have no desire whatsoever to switch to Windows. OSX I can’t say as I’ve never used it.
With Apple, the RDF always comes from marketing. I’ve noticed this over the years. E.g. the way they rename standard protocols like Bluetooth with “Apple” names. It makes it harder for Apple buyers to decide if a Windows computer will do what they want because there is no simple way of directly comparing.
My guess is that one of the cheaper grades of Ti such as would be used for nickel baskets would have been too brittle (or, expressed more technically, that stuff snaps really easily) whereas pure titanium is suitable for forming. Marketing would naturally emphasise the “pure” which is an Apple kind of word; they wouldn’t want to say it was for manufacturing purposes.
I very, very much doubt it. 6061-T6 is a heat treated aluminium and not therefore suitable for forming into a case; bicycle frames yes. 6061 is used for hot forging and extrusion, neither of which are relevant to computer cases. Untreated 6061 - annealed and so suitable for forming - is very weak at 55MPa (comparable with some plastics). Phone cases are cast or forged and machined and I think nowadays they tend to use 7000 series alloys.
Regardless of the marketing RDF I tend to assume that Apple engineers know what they are doing, and in this case I suspect that they chose a material which turned out to be problematic, but for good engineering reasons. Since then they’ve done this with aluminium oxide, another apparently superior material for screens but which turned out to have serious manufacturing problems.
My experiences with Apple’s full disk encryption prevented full bootable backups; I decided it was more vital for me to have multiple backups than encryption in my case.
I’ve got some partisans in my life who will not hear a bad word.
Living in the past is no problem for them. No bad words means that those times have not passed and never will.
I haven’t looked at very much but I think it’s good way forward. We need to put X away.
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