It still can’t remember the arrangement of my displays, but beyond that, it’s Windows, i.e., bearable because I need to use it, he said cattily. Can it support the latest versions of Windows? This has really surpassed my hopes and expectations and I love it. The HTC Vive and Steam titles work flawlessly. That being the impetus for this whole exercise, it’d suck if it ended up not working. I wrote about it here and also wrote up a how-to here. Yes, this met or surpassed my goals in most respects. What’s outdated compared to newer hardware?. What still works well after all this time?.Could it support the latest versions of macOS?.Could it support the latest versions of Windows?.Would it actually be a viable VR platform?.There were a lot of things I didn’t know and wanted to find out: Apple builds great hardware and they have stunning longevity. I was pretty interested in trying it on the 2009 model. I started looking on eBay for 5,1 Mac Pros and noticed a lot 2009 Mac Pros (4,1) that had been flashed to 5,1, and had upgraded CPUs and RAM. I saw enough success stories with different parts of what the project would take that I was pretty sure that I’d be able to get this work (fingers crossed). I wanted one machine to do everything, and I wanted to know if I could build it out of a Mac Pro tower instead of putting together a hackintosh. I got interested in VR and decided that a second computer or an eGPU was out of the question - too crowded in here already. My self-contained, beautiful computer was surrounded by a sprawling constellation of hardware, cables, and power supplies: external drives for media, a separate NAS for backups, audio interface for recording, mic stands, headphones, etc. My 5k iMac was the embodiment of sublime elegance and I loved it, but it had some limitations. It is the primary repository for hundreds of gigs of family photos and video.I shoot and edit video, and that content lives there as well.I’m a musician - everything that I write, record, or just noodle on gets stored on it.Our company has a fairly massive amount of data on Dropbox, and I keep most of it locally synced to this machine.I also use my computer for work, pretty much every day of the week.My desktop Mac is the center of my digital life:
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