I eventually settled on the M1 Mac Mini because I really liked the idea of having a completely silent computer. The used car money wasn’t going to happen, so Thunderbird cables it was. Newer ones would only be expandable if I either were to invest into a lot of Thunderbird 2/3 cables or spend nice used car money. One of the reasons I really liked this old Mac Pro was that it was expandable. Combine that with distinct signs of the machine getting geriatric and I decided that I was time for a replacement. Plus some of the software that I’m using really would like to use macOS 10.15, which this Mac Pro doesn’t support unless I effectively turn it into a Hackintosh. Nevertheless, it was showing more and more signs of getting long in tooth. It’s been upgraded a lot during its life - now has the latest 6 core Xeon these machines support including the upgrade to 2010 firmware, USB 3.0 ports, PCIe SATA cards to get SATA-3 and a PCIe NVMe card, plus a Mac-flashed AMD RX580. I bought it used quite a while ago - around 2013 if I remember correctly - and it’s been serving as my main photo/video/general programming workhorse, although the latter tasks have been taken over mostly by a Linux machine housed in the infamous NZXT H1 case. I’ve been using a 2009 cheesegrater Mac Pro for quite a while now.
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