To Dennis...
I am curious what version of AVID and OS you are running on your MacPro1,1. That machine has only a 32bit EFI boot ROM, so you cannot run any 64 bit OS/drivers. You can run the 32bit versions of Lion and Windows, but at a much reduced performance.
Also, are you doing much HD or AMA work on that system?
I have heard of hacking the boot rom, but you end up with a machine that thinks its a PC running MacOS, and you get lots of issues with drivers, sleep mode and the like, as in running any Hackintosh.
Also, the RAM on the MacPro 1,1 is only running at 667Mhz, as opposed to the new MacPro trashcan running at 1866Mhz. You might run into latency issues on larger RAM chips running at only 667Mhz. (Anyone remember how we couldn't use larger than 256Mb chips in the old mirror door Macs because the refresh rate on the larger RAM chips took too long, creating faults that kept the machine from playing back media in real time?) That older RAM is getting pretty cheap, so maybe it's worth a try.
Dave Hogan
Burbank, CA
On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 2:49 PM, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@verizon.net> wrote:
On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Greg Huson wrote:
> My macpro is just old enough that it's starting to annoy me - mostly the maximum allowable memory of 8gig (I only have 4, but why upgrade if I can't have at least 16?) and the spinning media.
> So, rather than upgrade this machine, which I mostly use for email, I'm thinking of selling it and replacing it with an 'air,' since when I DO use it for big files / editing / etc., I'm on an external drive anyway.
> Anyone editing on a macbook air? What's that like? Or is there still a real advantage to the macbook pro now?
> Any advice appreciated.
I think:
I have the original MacPro (1,1) from 2006 and it came with 4GB of RAM. I've since installed a total of 8GB. I don't understand when you say its limit is 8GB. It can be upgraded to 32GB and I'm thinking of doing just that. It's still a wonderful machine and I'm using it daily for heavy duty work like Avid editing. Except for occasional application freezes (not with Avid!), it runs well and I have no need to replace it. The app freezes might be minimized when I increase the RAM to 32GB.
Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
NBC Today Show, New York
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