This guide to upgrading classic ‘cheesegrater’ Mac Pros is a rare example of a document which earns its ‘definitive’ title. An astonishing and immensely valuable piece of work.
Related: I’m dusting off my old Mac Pro. Again. It was built in 2008 – twelve years ago – but it’s enough of a tank that I fear it will once again be pressed into service. In theory I can hack it to run the current Mac OS, though it’s not quite clear if it’s going to need yet another graphics card to manage that. If all else fails I can reboot it into (whisper it) Windows 10, where it seems to behave like a normal, supported system.
Not being able to upgrade the RAM and drive in my not-quite-as-old MacBook Pro means it’s not cutting the workloads I’m trying to hack on right now. Amusingly enough, what’s tipped it over the edge is … Microsoft Teams. Sigh.