Buying A $70 Mac Pro From Facebook Marketplace...

Today we're going to use and restore a $70 Apple Mac Pro that I bought off of Facebook Marketplace. It has 16GB of ram, an SSD and a graphics card of questionable origin. What could possibly go wrong?

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Nathan Sivewright
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[chewthysteak]

Honestly, getting a full set for $70 is a real steal! Nice find!

[robotomo]

My dad found the case for one of these a couple years back, completely empty though unfortunately. Overall a very solid case with a great design and I would say it's better than 98% of cases today.
The monitor on the other had (which was also found, however separate from the Mac Pro) is astonishing. I'm using it as my only monitor for my PC and I couldn't be happier. Great design, solid build quality, great "life-life" image quality and handy touch-sensitive brightness buttons on the side.
The only Apple product I've personally owned (apart from the monitor) is my trusty iPad mini 2 and my mums old iPhone 4.
I'm really getting into these old apple products recently, steve jobs did wonders!

[jessicawilson]

That was probably actually rubber reversion and not melted adhesive - something that’s extremely common with vintage tech.

[outwoodyapecker]

i would have never guessed this thing came out 16 years ago, it looks so ahead of it's time

[alienrefugee]

I tinkered with this machine so much back in the day. With the dual quad core's and flashed to a cMP 2, 1, it had a lot of horsepower. It finally met it's demise, when I somehow accidentally bent some of the cpu socket pins and I moved on to the cMP 3, 1. It was a great machine to learn on about hardware upgrading and boot efi's.

[splangley]

I can't recall what it gets you but you can easily flash a 1, 1 MacPro to a 2, 1. Also these can have the CPUs swapped out for something faster and the RAM can be maxed all the way to 32 GB fairly cheaply. I keep one of these as a "garage" computer at my electronics workbench and it is still shockingly good.

[ChrisEpp]

Great video and awesome work! I have the same Mac Pro with the Radeon HD 5770 GPU and El Capitan patch as well as 32GB Ram and the X2 Quad Core Xeon’s, beast of a machine but a bit outdated.

[alexalexandros]

As a 4, 1 -> 5, 1 user, I sure do like to see cMPs getting their life back. Not a bad find considering it came with the ACD and decent GPU to accompany it. If you stumble across a 3, 1 cMP, i recommend OpenCore Legacy Patcher, OCLP. If you get a 4, 1 then i recommend flashing to 5, 1 and then going with Martin Lo’s OpenCore package.

[eg]

Great video. Glad to see that you didn't skip over the OS troubleshooting. I find it more interesting that way.

[linokuma]

When you pull the stack of rams, I'm shocked. Those rams look more menacing than the graphic card

[perdomot]

Love the look on the old icons and styles of Mac OS X. Just looks so much better than the modern ones.

[CesareVesdani]

Can you rescue more Windows computers? Please do so if you can. I want you to salvage as many Windows computers as you possibly can.

[georgesenda]

Psivewri favorite late night snack is Dust Helper.😛

[RafiqueNiihara]

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[YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

These old Mac Pros are such incredible value. I'm using my '08 right now for my main Ableton rig and it's never once stuttered or made me considering upgrading.

[redleader]

Sweet find! I found something similar: A Power Mac G4 dual 500 MHz for $5. Works perfectly, just missing the optical/zip caddy/faceplate, the hard drive, and one of the 3 hard drive sleds. It also didn't include anything else, but it's in otherwise amazing shape. The PSU didn't have a single bulging cap, either, and the G4 power supplies are known to fail. Talk about luck.

It's rather ironic that what was once Apple's top-tier professional computer offering for $3499 could be found for a total of $9 including the bus I took to pick it up. These are going for as high as nearly 10% of their original price on eBay. It's amazing what you can find on Facebook Marketplace.

[beauslim]

This was such a great machine. Bought mine as a refurb from the Apple store in 2007 and used it as my daily driver for a full decade. Mine is retired now (it uses way too much power) but I still fire it up and play with it occasionally. You can use an NVMe SSD in it (700MB/s) but only for storage, not booting. A GT710 will work with the appropriate web driver if you want a fanless video option.

[cryzzn]

I can't believe that someone sold this Mac with a studio monitor for just $70 !! (less than 50 Euros)
The machine is VERY upgradable for little money, despite being an older model.
Even with Linux instead of Mac OS it can be a respectable daily driver.

[andresbravo]

Facebook Marketplace has all kinds of stuff I could really find.

[Appri]

My school's electronics recycling dock regularly throws out a lot of hardware, I salvaged enough to build a hackintosh running Monterey and a 27 inch Apple Cinema Display hooked up to it, which is a 1440p panel with awesome speakers (actually better than the new bose soundbox I was using), webcam, microphone, all the bells and whistles. Still pretty bright, but had to use Lunar to configure the brightness otherwise it'd break. In general though, that hackintosh is an amazing machine running an i7 7700, 2x 8gb ddr4 2133, rx 470 sapphire nitro+, a gigabyte ultra durable whatever board, and a mediocre psu. Couldn't be happier, since nearly all of it was for free.