r/macpro

They tend to go fairly cheap because apple
Dropped intel

Found a 12core 48Gb ram 2tb SSD with vega pro II for like 1000€, could i stick a 7900xt in and run windows?

Gaming PC rigs aren’t really cheap nowadays.

Also i like macs and had an og chessegrater and kind of think they’re cool, seems like a good excuse, but probably a bad idea?

I've got a 2016 MacBook Pro with some issues. I'm not looking for a standard repair shop. I need somewhere that does non-warranty mods, since this thing is way past AppleCare. I want to bump up the RAM and maybe touch a few other components that aren't standard Apple builds. Anyone know a shop or an independent tech in the area who does this kind of work? Looking for services in Philadelphia or trusted mail-in services.

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I'm looking for advice from people who've made a similar upgrade.

Current Mac:

- 2019 13" MacBook Pro

- Intel i5

- 8GB RAM

It's still functional, but it's definitely slower than when it was new.

Current performance:

- Cold boot: ~28 seconds

- Chrome opens: ~10 seconds

- Heidi AI app: ~4 seconds

- Practice Better website: ~4 seconds

- ChatGPT takes longer to load than it used to.

- Switching tabs and opening apps has a noticeable delay.

The important thing is that it hasn't affected patient care yet. Zoom is stable, no crashes or freezes. It's more like lots of little delays throughout the day.

My workload:

- in private practice

- 70–80% Zoom telehealth

- 20–30% in-person visits

- Use a EMR/patient portal site

- AI transcription during appointments

- ChatGPT/Claude throughout the day

- Lots of browser tabs, PDFs, email, and Office apps

The laptop stays in my office almost all the time, but I can't use an external monitor because I use the laptop during in-person appointments and often turn it toward patients.

I usually keep Macs for about 6–7 years.

If you were in my position:

1. Would you keep using this Mac for another year, or replace it now?

2. If you would replace it, which would you choose and why?

   - 15" MacBook Air M5 (24GB RAM)

   - 14" MacBook Pro M5 (24GB RAM)

   - 16" MacBook Pro M5 Pro (24GB RAM)

I'm less interested in benchmarks and more interested in real-world experience from people who use their Macs for work all day.

My current pc doesnt work well anymore w what i wanna do lwk and i really really really love the mac pro 2019/7.1 case unfortunately in europe the supply is super Tiny and even less for just the case, unfortunately there arent any very similar cases that use the exact same airflow path, not sure how well the cpu is for gaming but i cant imagine it be amazing, im fine with removing the internals and modding in bleeding edge hardware, im thinking of replicating the case myself but the shell is such a pain to replicate as ill need a nose tip drill for the unique front panel pattern, am i stupid or should i buy a mac pro 7.1/2019 or just the case even tho there arent rlly any listings

Hi. Former Mac Studio M2 Max owner here (32GB)

In the 3 years I’ve been using the studio, creating some fairly heavy Logic Pro sessions, etc, working in a quiet room, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the fans fire up. The machine is a beast.

Back when the M-Series came out I was investigating what to buy, and I recall various threads in which people were praising the M1/M2 MBP’s for the same thing. In fact, the MBP’s were often cited as “whisper-silent”, and people were specifically saying the fans never spin up even under heavy load.

So obviously we’re a few more generations in to the silicon series. I just swapped over to an M5 MBP and upped the RAM to 48GB. I’ve only had it a week, but
twice now, I’ve caught the fans spinning up like it was struggling.

One of those occasions seems to be due to a menu-bar app called Freespace, which really doesn’t seem to like Tahoe (I know the feeling), but another time was when opening Logic Project.

So now I’m curious. Is this simply something to be expected occasionally, despite the M5 chips being so much more powerful than the M2’s and my RAM going from 32-48 GB? Could it be something to do with the removal of Rosetta? Or should I be running some tests to check the hardware is working as expected?

I mean, it’s not the end of the world by any means, but it has surprised me, so I thought I’d check to see if it’s an expected thing.

Just finished setting up my macpro 2019 as an LLM server. This a 12 cores, 96Gb ddr4, 2Tb, and more importantly Radeon Vega II 32gb vram.

On the software side, I'm running a headless Nixos server with llama.cpp.

So far, I'm impressed: qwen3.6-27B-UD-Q5_K_S runs at a rock steady 26-27 tk/s which I consider very usable after sluming below 10tk/s for the same dense model at Q3 on MacBook M4 32Gb ram. That's the only model I've tested so far. At 19Gb, it leaves plenty of room for kv cache.

I expect the area of tinkering will be to find the best combination of dense model size Vs kvcache room, and then of course testing some MoEs.

My plan is to run it as a backend for pi.dev, and to serve the rest of the household with a chat interface running on my proxmox server.

If you are lucky enough to have one of these beats lying around, you could do worse than turning them into an LLM server.

Already screwed with the price changes might as well get some compensation for it.

Hi all! Looking into getting a 2019 Mac Pro and will be needing a GPU for it. Anyone have any MPX modules for sale? Looking for a lower end one ideally. Thanks! Feel free to comment or DM me with offers.

I just bought a new version of Norton 360 and tried to put it on my 2019 MacBook Pro. It would not let me download the program onto my computer. I called Norton for help and for some reason we could not get my computer to let the man from Norton remotely access my computer either. I’m wondering what type of thing is on my MacBook Pro that is blocking. Could it be the firewall? If I take the firewall down, will Norton 360 be able to be downloaded and can I get remote access for Norton to access my computer? I ended up hanging up with Norton after about 45 minutes with nothing done.

I have two Mac computers. A 2015 iMac 5k running Monterey. I installed adobe premiere elements 15 on it prior to upgrading to Monterey. It works great, adobe premiere elements runs on this iMac 5k on Monterey.

2nd computer (recently got) 2013 Mac Pro. Upgraded the software to macOS Monterey. Then tried installing adobe premiere elements 15 (via disc), same disc I used for the iMac 5k years ago and got the message:

"Install" needs to be updated.
The developer of this app needs to update it to work with this version of macOS. Contact the developer for more information.

Is there any way to get around this and install adobe premiere elements 15 on my 2013 Mac Pro running Monterey with the original disc? Or do I need to downgrade the software of the 2013 Mac Pro (somehow, I don’t know how) adobe premiere elements 15, then upgrade the macOS version BACK to Monterey? Any help would be appreciated in figuring this out. Thank you :)

3D print support case \0/

Hello everyone,

I am sure there was many discussions about that matter. I think I tested all
Mac os from Monterey to sequoia and decided to stay with Monterey. Sequoia is literally cooking the cpu, even after thermal paste replacement and cleaning. I understand no security updates on Monterey anymore, so I decided to stay with Monterey, along with still
Updatable Firefox, Avira internet security, VPN
What you think? Is cpu cooking worth keeping sequoia due to security updates? Or keeping cool and keep the spec I mentioned before with Monterey?