2019 Mac Pro is Now Available at Apple.com

[tabarus]

Why not leave them both behind and switch to Linux?

because teh software i need is only available for macOS or Windows, othercase I won't be even writing here

 

[trs96]

The Apple Pro Display XDR is Now Available on Amazon.com
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If you will be buying one of these make sure to click through the links below to help support this community via the affiliate links. The price and sales tax you pay will be exactly the same as when you buy one from Apple directly. Wait time is about 4-6 weeks.

Display Monitor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082LZTDX5/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Pro Display Stand https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082LQSZB8/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

VESA Mount
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082M1YTYC/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

 

[trs96]

Why Apple sees the 2019 base model Mac Pro as reasonably priced
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Have a look at what the 40 MHz Macintosh II fx used to cost about 30 years ago. Over $17,500 in 2019 USDs. If you maxed out the ram you would have an astounding 128 MB to work with. Less than 1/4 of 1 GB of ram. I wonder how long it will take until 1.5 TB of ram seems to be too little to do anything with ?

So the base $6,000 MP released last December is certainly giving you more for your money than Apple's highest end desktop did in the past. As you probably have guessed, it didn't sell well and started Apple's steep decline through most of the 1990s.

Click on the above graphic to enlarge it.

 

[kylec]

NVMe SSD from OWC

I just tried the 2 TB 4M2 card in my X99 system. Blackmagic disk speed test results are: just under 4100 MB/s write, and 5100 MB/s read!

That's with the default volume configuration in SoftRAID: HFS+, striped @ 128KB.

Does anyone know what type of RAID setup MacPro7,1 uses for the dual SSD configurations? I've been using APFS RAID with Mojave, and its in Catalina too, so I assume it's probably that and not some special driver, right?

 

[oli.mathieu]

Hello
I was wondering about the MacPro's Dual 10G ethernet controller. What chip is it ? Any dual 10G PCIe card compatible ?
Thanks

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Why Apple sees the 2019 base model Mac Pro as reasonably priced
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Have a look at what the 40 MHz Macintosh II fx used to cost about 30 years ago. Over $17,500 in 2019 USDs. If you maxed out the ram you would have an astounding 128 MB to work with. Less than 1/4 of 1 GB of ram. I wonder how long it will take until 1.5 TB of ram seems to be too little to do anything with ?

So the base $6,000 MP released last December is certainly giving you more for your money than Apple's highest end desktop did in the past. As you probably have guessed, it didn't sell well and started Apple's steep decline through most of the 1990s.

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Click on the above graphic to enlarge it.

You might have already watched this, but for Linus I thought this was a quite calm and reasoned set of viewponts ... (and no, he's not really returning it. That is probably just a 'hook' etc).

I'm not expert on the Pro's but this seems a fair summary.

 

[S1lla]

If any has a suggestion for a an X299 motherboard that is hackintosh "friendly" (Been looking at WS Sage 10G), and be capable of having a Titan Ridge support for the TB3, please let me know

Merry Christmas

Best X299 Motherboard out there Asus X299 WS Sage 10/G

With a little bit EEPROM flashing the 10/G Ethernet works flawless with the official Smalltree driver.

 

[kylec]

@EDGERIDER, there's not too much info out there about C621 hackintoshes, but in general you can follow the same approach as X299. Does the BIOS have a CFG Lock option? If not, then start by researching the UEFIPatch BIOS mod. Unlocked MSR allows C3 states for the CPU and possibly better stability. (An added complication is that there have been a number of reports recently of newer BIOS versions where the CFG Lock option is not actually doing anything.)

I've seen reports that there might be issues with XHCI on this chipset, but it's unclear.

Have you looked at the KGP guides for X299? If you consider Mojave instead of Catalina, then that should have all the info you need. On the other hand, if you go with Catalina, it's probably best to use OpenCore instead. I've read a number of posts on here from X299 users who gave up on Clover due to a combination of newer BIOSes giving trouble, as well as changes with more recent Catalina updates that Clover has not been tracking as well as OC has.

In short, the situation for high-end hackintoshes is very complicated right now!

edited to add: I came back to check for responses and the post was gone. Probably because it was a dup of this one: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...al-socket-lga-3647.235505/page-2#post-2125958

adding a note here so that people can understand what's up.

 

[EDGERIDER]

many, many thanks!
it looks like i am a noob again...
I stop doing hackintosh when clover arrived... I have heard about open core on mac rumor where cMP owner use it to have boot menu and activate gpu acceleration.... I dont want to spend too much time on this because I’ m probably going to sell the machine as a windows machine, buts I wanted to test to let know the community if it was possible because I have the hardware available... purely on the give-back spirit!

 

[S1lla]

many, many thanks!
it looks like i am a noob again...
I stop doing hackintosh when clover arrived... I have heard about open core on mac rumor where cMP owner use it to have boot menu and activate gpu acceleration.... I dont want to spend too much time on this because I’ m probably going to sell the machine as a windows machine, buts I wanted to test to let know the community if it was possible because I have the hardware available... purely on the give-back spirit!

Of course it's possible. I run 3x c621 machines. All as hackintosh.

Asus ROG Dominus Extreme
EVGA SR-3 Dark
Gigabyte C621 Aorus Xtreme