Mac Pro AWESOME INSTALLATION VIDEO-PCI, RAM and HD

http://guycochran.com/ In just 5 minutes Guy Cochran from DVeStore.com installs a PCI SATA card, 4GB's of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive into a Mac Pro.

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[styx0rz]

@giantrobot503

Too bad you can run OSX on many custom builds. Or just chose one of the millions of Linux distros that meet your needs.

[styx0rz]

@styx0rz

Apple "Just works" because they severely limit the hardware mixes you can run on their machines. If you have fewer combinations of hardware to test and support, it's easier to make sure they work well.

You are buying this "reliability" (read: heavily tested hardware+software configuration) from Apple for a premium - if you want to do something beyond the designed intent of the machine, build a custom machine running another OS and don't waste your money.

[styx0rz]

@weinerschnitzelboy Are you kidding? anything that plugs in through a pci port? That's more than 95% of the hardware in question. Of course RAM and CPUs are going to be supported - apple does not need to write drivers for them!

If it's 3rd party hardware (a controller card, a sound card, a video card, a capture card, etc) you need to be sure apple has written drivers (and they probably have not). Electrically, the card will work, but OSX won't know what to do with it.

[styx0rz]

@weinerschnitzelboy Are you kidding? anything that plugs in through a pci port? That's more than 95% of the hardware in question. Of course RAM and CPUs are going to be supported - apple does not need to write drivers for them!

If it's 3rd party hardware (a controller card, a sound card, a video card, a capture card, etc) you need to be sure apple has written drivers (and they probably have not). Electrically, the card will work, but OSX won't know what to do with it.

[GangstaFlenn]

color correction is made like an old porno movie :)

[livingshangrila]

Easy as pie.

[Orf]

@aesthe2k did you find one?

[Tyler7975]

if you have an old mac pro, can you send it in for upgrades to apple ? or is it an under the desk thing.

[aesthe2k]

Could you Give me some external port 3 Gb/S PCI SATA card name for mac pro but which is not expensive but with good speed? my bugget is around 30$ to 60$... thanks

[aesthe2k]

what is the the name of PCI SATA card that you installed??

[weinerschnitzelboy]

@rizz3 No not really. Almost everything you have is compatible for mac. The only thing I can think of hardware wise that you have to buy specifically for mac is a graphics card or anything else that plugs in through a pci port. Other than tat, everything hardware should be compatible to a mac.

[IflyinGa]

So much easier in my computer to do this.

[ShaneHm2]

Its actually PCI-e interface.

[steavedaver]

it would suck if you got any swolen capastiors in a mac pro

[dell11700]

@visornet24 it has a freakin small motherboard that has only the processors...

[visornet24]

i'd like to know so much, what mainboard is inside. that must be a giant powerfull board, with giant dimensions.

[jjjv73]

@edguitartorres You can put in any size , doesnt have to be the same

[chrismans]

totally agree

[edguitartorres]

Thank You! G-d Bless!

[dan1eln1el5en]

it's just regular harddrives, RAM you buy from crucial and PCI card is also just regular PC parts, I don't have anything directly from Apple except from the computer itself, RAM, from Crucial and Kingston, Harddrives from whoever, Graphics upgrade from ATI.

[dan1eln1el5en]

nope, i got 4 different drives by various manufactures.

[edguitartorres]

Question: I have a 640 GB Internal hard drive in my Mac Pro 8 core. If i want to put an additional hard drive in does it also have to be a 640 GB to match or can I put in a different capacity, ie: a 1TB?

[barrybob32]

sure its easy to upgrade but all the parts are made by apple, no wait theyre sold by apple, the same way that all macs are made of sony batteries, disk drives and hard drives. the screen is made by sharp, hell all apple does is design the computer's shell. for a while the mac used quantum drives. kinda funny that apple products arent actually designed by the same people who make the software. and mac is good for ...

1.porn

2.uhh

3.uhmmm

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[GeneticRealityFilms]

...each kind of computer has its perks There is no "Better" computer Macs, do one thing, Windows and linux do another

[xboxnissan]

haha so unfunny. -__-