Don't give Apple your MONEY - Mac Pro Upgrade Adventure

[Emily Young]

The Mac Pro is an EXPENSIVE computer, but you don’t have to pay the Apple Tax to get the power you need – Follow along with us and save some money by upgrading it yourself!

 

 

Buy DDR4 Registered ECC Memory:
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[Founders]

Hello @GabenJr, I hope your day is going great!

 

(Comments to come... Probably)

[Guest]

Orange you glad it's so accessible?! It's just a twist and apple away from upgrading the internals.

 

 

_{Sorry, I'll leave.}

[taku1101]

One Question tho, 

what was that second monitor in that video and why did the colors look so off?

[zassou]

the amount of camera shake is making me sick, next time CAN YOU PLEASE DONT DO THESE REALITY TV NONSENSE next time ?????

[tim0901]

At 9:15 Linus mentioned the attempt to fill 2TB of memory with Chrome tabs they did a while ago. Was there ever a video published on that? I only saw a clip on social media.

[Luscious]

What nobody has bothered to make a BIG DEAL about yet is that Apple is selling these overpriced cheese graters with first gen Skylake Xeons when every reputable workstation/server reseller has been taking orders of the newer stock for months now. Will the thing even work if you drop in a 2nd gen 28 core part???

 

Doesn't surprise me one bit. This is just Apple being Apple - charging you a premium for last gen tech. Even that $10K RAM is the slowest CAS silicon from Micron. They are making a killing on the markup and are literally banking on the iSheep who know no better.

[Kroon]

Why so negative and call torx  "none standard"? 

 

At leas here in north EU you can't hardly buy phillips or flat screws anymore.  It's really annoying that somethings, like computers haven't adopted torx properly yet.

[pApA^LeGBa]

Why would anyone prefer phillips over torx? Not just at computers. Torx are superior to phillips at any occasion. I never owned apple or ever plan to, but using torx is a wise choice.

[TheAudioCreature]

Thank you so much for the video! @GabenJr this is extremely relevant for the whole Audio Pro industry right now! More than half of my colleagues I know are discussing buying the new Mac and upgrading it to their needs as in most studios and media composers setups this is a dream machine and solves a lot of bottlenecks and makes the workflows smoother (as you only need one computer instead of 2 or 3). Looking forward to more stuff on this, also pretty interesting would be SSD-RAID solutions in the Mac Pro. I have one in my current system and the question raises if I can use it in a new Mac Pro (The current card in a Hackintosh System is the HighPoint RocketRAID 362x Series 6 Gb/s SATA RAID HBA Solution).

If you have more than 500GB on RAM and loading it up everyday would take ages even with the fastest SSDs right now, so those things would as well very relevant for a whole industry sector. Cheers!

[NumLock21]

19 hours ago, taku1101 said:

One Question tho, 

what was that second monitor in that video and why did the colors look so off?

Looks like ProArt from Asus.

 

[DrMacintosh]

20 hours ago, taku1101 said:

One Question tho, 

what was that second monitor in that video and why did the colors look so off?

Yeah, that monitor looked horrible

[Guest]

20 hours ago, taku1101 said:

One Question tho, 

what was that second monitor in that video and why did the colors look so off?

Because the stand was really cheap.

People underestimate the color depth and HDR capability that a $999 stand provides.

[Aleksey]

If you replace the original SSD, you should be able to reinstall macOS in recovery mode fro the internet pressing Shift-Option-Command-R at startup.

[adfaklsdjf]

Does anyone know what the music is in the background after the ~12 minute mark?

 

Checked video description.. did my best to search the YT comments but with >5000 comments and no search feature it's tough.  I did find 3 other people in the comments asking.. no answers

[caincha]

It's funny how they go out of their way to bash Apple for it's pricing but end up going off-script and praising pretty much everything hardware-wise and at the end of the day it's very simple: it's expensive because it's well-made.

Do you actually need that kind of polished product for that price? Same with everything Apple probably not but it doesn't mean it's overpriced (being expensive ain't the same as being overpriced - at least I think not English ain't my first language but anyway you get what I mean).

 

Anyway I gave up watching all those Hackintosh videos for it's nonsensical script but how much time, effort, frustration and actual money were spent there? Wouldn't it be easier to just buy the damn Apple thing in the first place and upgrading it yourself as this video suggests…? I've done it with my iMac which is waaay more difficult so…

[twelvizm]

Anyone have a link to the CPU he put in?  Or have the model number handy?  I got a homie at Intel, need to get that CPU ordered.

[BRIANCHARLES]

On 1/29/2020 at 4:59 PM, GabenJr said:

The Mac Pro is an EXPENSIVE computer, but you don’t have to pay the Apple Tax to get the power you need – Follow along with us and save some money by upgrading it yourself!

 

 

Buy DDR4 Registered ECC Memory:
From OWC: https://lmg.gg/Q7Y09
On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/maaJrD
On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/hr4uJZ

 

Buy Mac Pro PCI-E AUX Cables:
From Apple: https://lmg.gg/s3ghS

 

Buy a Promise Pegasus J2i disk enclosure:
From Apple: https://lmg.gg/ignT6

 

Buy a Promise Pegasus R4i RAID disk enclosure
From Apple: https://lmg.gg/jRJ5M
On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/KvZSP1

 

Buy an Nvidia Titan RTX (Boot Camp only!):
From Nvidia: https://lmg.gg/srYYl
On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/hcx1o
On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/uA5ob

 

Buy an AMD Radeon VII:
On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/Buj2uH4
On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/ylUX

 

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

I am looking for a personalized private consultation with Linus to help me step by step upgrade the Apple Mac Pro. how can I make an appointment with him. What would he charge for this. I am willing to pay him within reason.

[Middcore]

16 minutes ago, BRIANCHARLES said:

I am looking for a personalized private consultation with Linus to help me step by step upgrade the Apple Mac Pro. how can I make an appointment with him. What would he charge for this. I am willing to pay him within reason.

 

I'm not sure what makes you think this is a service he offers.

[BRIANCHARLES]

I don't know. but I need to try and find out.