- TURNING A 2008 MAC PRO INTO A 2018 MAC PRO INSTALL
- TURNING A 2008 MAC PRO INTO A 2018 MAC PRO UPGRADE
- TURNING A 2008 MAC PRO INTO A 2018 MAC PRO PRO
TURNING A 2008 MAC PRO INTO A 2018 MAC PRO PRO
Many thanks - stupidly missed out the Used Mac Pro option.
TURNING A 2008 MAC PRO INTO A 2018 MAC PRO INSTALL
Do a clean install of El Capitan -you may have a lot of junk in your system - alternately delete preferences and/or reinstall apps.īuy a used/refurbished MacPro5,1 rather than update CPU - it can be as fast as the new MacPros if you pimp it out. 18 gb should be enough memory but max it out if you regularly use large files in industrial strength apps.ĥ. Samsung SD-951 with an adapter in a pci-e slot is very very fast - OEM no warranty (1400-1500 mb/sec)Ĥ. buy a faster graphics card (possibly pricey) but ATI you have should be fast enough.ģ. buy an adapter for 25 bucks and run your ssd boot drive in a pci-e slot (550 mb/sec)Ģ. Yet running two different monitors (iMac + other) seems even more wrong. What do you think my best options are? Many opinions on the web seem against running off a MacBook for significant periods, and it does seem a bit wrong, somehow. Mac Pro - cheapest option with SSD and 16Gb RAM is £2,800. 3.2 GHz, Radeon R9 M380, 16Gb, 512 SSD, plus Dell display (£490 but will look different onscreen to Apple 5K display - Dell 5k display is £1,760!) comes to about £2,500.Ĩ. 3.3GHz, Iris Pro, 16GB, 512 SSD + 4K monitor (smaller than existing setup, but HD) comes to £2,140.ħ. 3GHz i7 with "Iris graphics" (unspecified) and 16GB, 512 SSD comes to £1,360.ĥ. Assuming same price as current top of the line (i7 and Iris 6100) and minus £700 selling old one, call it £1000.Ĥ. Again, no idea what actually doing serious design work on such a setup would be like.
TURNING A 2008 MAC PRO INTO A 2018 MAC PRO UPGRADE
Wait for the next Retina MacBook Pros and upgrade to top o the line and run that via docking station.
It looks like the architecture imposes significant bottlenecks that wouldn't make that much of an increase, but without knowing what exactly about the latest Adobe/MS apps is slowing me down, I'm not sure if updating the GPU might make a difference. Call it £300 for docking station and external TB cases for hard drives.Ģ. Not sure what the performance would be like long term, with much wimpier GPU (I presume). I suppose a docking station like the Henge might help, and would also make it easier to add the needed external storage. This would have advantages in terms of not having to sync work data, but would have to make everything run off the 2 TB ports.
So my upgrade options would appear to be (in order of cost):ġ.
I also have a 2014 13" Retina MacBook Pro (2.4Ghs i5, 256Gb SSD, 8GB RAM, Iris 1586) that I use for mobile working. The size and separate screens are perfect for the way I work, and I would want to change that significantly. I use two 24" Apple Cinema displays, and - though a bit dull compared to the modern ones - they work fine enough, too. Otherwise I have had no problems with it at all. I have already revved it up a bit by booting from a 512GB SSD and upping the GPU to an ATI Radeon HD 5770 (whoah!), but now I am starting to get beachballs when using the Adobe and MS apps (InDesign, Photoshop and Nik Plugins, Illustrator, and Word takes an age to open a doc). I'm noticing that my 2008 Mac Pro (2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeons, 18GB RAM, El Capitan) is starting to show its age, especially with the latest Creative Cloud and Microsoft 2016 apps that I am forced to use at gunpoint.