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Quick guide to installing OpenCore on a Classic Mac Pro (cMP)

July 13, 2021 Jay Comments 27 comments

Reading Time: 9 minutesOpenCore is, for lack of a better word, amazing. If you don’t know what OpenCore is, read about some of its benefits here. I have no experience (yet) with other versions of OpenCore, such as the Legacy patcher, but I fully intend to explore that as well at some point. This post is the quick and easy guide that should have anyone up and running with OpenCore on the cMac Pros in minutes. This guide may have steps in it…

Turning a 2009 4,1 Mac Pro into a 2010/2012 5,1 Mac Pro – 2021 Edition

March 24, 2021 Jay Comments 96 comments

Reading Time: 7 minutesNOTE: The below mentioned procedures may no longer work. I intend to look into it and update this article at some point but this can take many months. Proceed if you want, it might work, it might fail. Check the comments for possible workarounds and solutions found by others. Hanging out in the various Facebook groups and other communities, I rarely run into anyone anymore that has a 2009 4,1 Mac Pro that still runs the stock firmware. But there…

The differences between the 4,1 and 5,1 Mac Pro

August 8, 2020 Jay Comments 15 comments

Reading Time: 6 minutesMy apologies, sometimes I take certain information for granted. When I see people on Facebook and other forums ask “what’s the difference between 4,1 and 5,1 Mac Pro?” or “Can I use a 4,1 CPU tray in a 5,1 Mac Pro” I think to myself ‘this is common knowledge, isn’t it?’. No, it’s not. Even in 2020 (and years to come), there will be plenty of people that first get started on upgrading an older Mac Pro or maybe even…

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