Got My Mac Pro

So after much searching on Craigslist and E-Bay I found a Mac Pro that I decided to get.  I found a local business that rebuilds Mac Pro systems and they are less than a half hour from my house and have been doing this for some time.  The price on the one I selected was a little higher than some other comparable systems but I am ok with that after I spent some time talking to the owner of the business and hearing more about his rebuilding process.  He is meticulous about cleaning and preparing the components to give them the longest life possible.  I decided on a Mac Pro 4,1 that has been flashed to a 5,1.  It is a 3.46 Ghz 6 Core Xeon with a 250 Gig SD as a boot drive and 16 Gig of Memory.  I have a couple of upgrades planned for it but my initial impression is that it is not any step back in performance than my current 2.8 Ghz Quad Core i7.

Possible Mac Pro

I have a lead on a good deal on a Mac Pro and am hoping to pick it up this weekend.  I have decided to sell my MacBook Pro now since it still has a good resale value and will pretty much cover the purchase of the Mac Pro.  I have been a little hesitant to move to a Mac Pro since the older non 2013 Models are getting pretty old but they are built as workstations and have been spending a lot of time reading about them in some forums and there are a lot of users out there still depending on them.  The appeal of having a system that I can actually do some work on outweighs the concern of them being old.

Changing Computers

I have been a little dissatisfied with Apple's hardware current hardware direction and offering for some time.  I used to have a 2011 MacBook Pro and with that Laptop I could open up the chassis and upgrade or replace the memory, the hard drive, and the optical drive.  I liked having that flexibility.  Now Apple is on a quest to make everything smaller and lighter and they make their laptops so that things like memory and hard drive space are not user replaceable.  Really don't like that.  I like Mac OS but I really am getting irritated with Apple's hardware direction.  I have also decided that my computer needs have changed over the last couple of years and I really don't need a laptop anymore.  I am thinking about getting a older Mac Pro or building a Hackintosh.  The Hackintosh would be the more current hardware but the Mac Pro systems are built like tanks and I have always wanted one.  Have been looking a lot lately for a good deal on a Mac Pro but have not found one yet.  I am leaning towards the Mac Pro even though it's an older platform.