In 2008 I finally bit the bullet and bought my first Mac that I truly considered a comparable and professional replacement to the home built computers I had used in the past. It was time to spend the cash and move into the Mac Pro arena.
However I felt like they both lacked the professional and expandable setup I had been used to with home built PCs. Not long after the Mac Mini purchase I was itching for a more powerful Mac and just before Christmas I sold on the Mini and placed an order for a 20″ Late Core 2 Duo iMac, this and the subsequent refurbished Late 2006 MacBook that got lugged back an forth to work each day are still going strong, (the MacBook lacks a suitable battery but that is another future refurb job) and provided me with a brilliant ecosystem to work from. In 2006 I started my journey into switching from being a PC user to a Mac user and between then and 2008 I had several Macs in short succession.įirst came a Early 2006 Mac Mini, a revolution for me as this was my first new, modern Mac and was not clunky, slow and secondhand, it reinforced my move from PC to Mac and I would not flip back for many years (lack of modern pro desktop did it in the end with hackintoshes bridging the gap till now). Switching from PCĪfter years of tinkering around PCs and having dipped my toe into Mac ownership via a selection of secondhand Pre G3 Power Macs (that ultimately ran plan9 in some strange cluster experiment) and then later a old G4 Power Mac. Rebuilding my 2008 Mac Pro, it’s almost 10 years old and has languished for the last year hidden behind boxes, under powered and forgotten, it was time it had an upgrade and I fixed some of the destructive maintenance that had been done to it over the years.īut first a quick history of how and why I ended up purchasing this Mac back in 2008 (If you wish to skip to the rebuild, click here).
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