Robert McNees
Besides making a bench, what do you do with two Mac Pro towers that you don't really use any more?
These were monsters 12 years ago, equipped with pretty good multi-core processors and 48 GB of RAM. But there are very few things these machines can do that my M1 MBP can't handle much faster.
What's a task where they might still be *useful*? What could I could do with them?
(Note: I canβt donate them because of University rules.)
Robert McNees
@danhon These Mac Pros don't even get out of bed for what my M1 machine uses under load.
Let the Right Hon In
@mcnees unfortunately, it depends on how you feel about power usage :(
Schamschula
@mcnees Chuckles! I bought 20 of the 2009 variety using an NSF MRI grant, 16 for a compute cluster, the rest as workstations. Only one is still running (as a #FreeBSD test server).
martin_fff
@mcnees Air Filters / Space Heaters...
Brian Wolven
@mcnees Use them to host mcneestodon.social π
Debbie Goldsmith π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ
lukasz sciborowski
@mcnees I upgraded my 2006 MacPro with SSD drives and more RAM and turned it into Windows gaming PC. Does the job, however, I'm still planning proper upgrade of the graphics card.
Also comes in handy when I need to rip a rare music CD not available in streaming services.
Last but not least, my son loves to disassemble and put them back together. You canβt buy that :)
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