LOL - me too! I bet we will see a price increase on eBay because of this - glad I got mine now!

And me. @@Fred_Raimer What I found inside was horendous.

We've all made simple little mistakes like that. Luckily this wasn't a permanent mistake. You know.. like wiping the wrong drive and loosing everything. Not that I.. ok ok.. yeah.. I've done that before!

@@Chimpur 😂

That would have been cool!

I have seen a bit of improvement - video coming soon. It's not so much about the performance benefit rather than having peace of mind that the machine isn't going to cook itself and die! 😁

Yes it does 😁

Anything is possible. When I dis the thermal paste on this machine (video to come), it was pretty dry. Considering it was manufactured in 2019, I’d say that confirms that it should be done every few years. It definitely made a difference. My previous trashcan was D300, but it did kernel panic occasionally. I redid the thermal paste, and clean installed the OS, and I didn’t have problems after.

I'm going to put Ventura on it, and I'll probably stay one release behind so that I'm never waiting for OCLP to catch up with the latest version... but that's the sensible part of me talking, and I don't always listen to sense!

I run Sonoma on mine and it runs fine but I do not always update immediately.

I have to stay on Monterey due my eGPU software has been update yet

I believe that model has the Intel i5-8259U, which is a pretty decent CPU. Compared to any of the 2013 Mac Pro CPUs, it offers considerably better single-threaded performance, and it will beat the 6-core for most multi-threaded workflows. Of course, you can't judge everything based on benchmarks. The RAM and GPU in the MacBook Pro will be limiting factors. The GPU in the Mac Pro will offer about 3x the performance (D300 / D500), or 4x in the case of D700... and that's each one individually. If the software you are using can take advantage of dual GPUs, the difference will be greater. Photoshop does not support dual GPU configurations AFAIK, but other similar apps, like Affinity Photo, do. I'm not familiar with Rhino, but it looks like the default renderer might be CPU, though there are GPU options. It's difficult to recommend an obsolete machine like the 2013 Mac Pro as a main workstation. An Apple Silicon Mac with at least 16GB will likely be a better choice, and will have more longevity with software support. But, compared to your MacBook Pro, you should expect that things like web browsing might feel a bit slower (particularly on modern busy websites). I would expect things like Photoshop and Illustrator to be rather smoother, providing you go for at least an 8-core with 32GB RAM. Rhino may be better thanks to the RAM, and if you're using a GPU renderer it should be noticeably better.

@@ConstantGeekery thank you for the insight!

For studio pieces like this, I have a Sennheiser MKE600 mounted just above the frame, which connects directly to a Blackmagic Design Video Assist 7" 12G. I use the Video Assist to record the video using the RAW 5.9K output of a Panasonic S5 camera. It's a good combination, and the MKE600 is an excellent microphone. I've had good results with it connecting to audio recorders and directly to the camera input too. Whilst it needs phantom power, it can take an AA battery, which makes it very versatile. Some of my recent videos (the unscripted types), are shot on DJI Osmo Pocket 3 and I use the DJI Mic or DJI Mic 2 for those. Some commenters have noticed that the audio is not as good as this setup.

@@ConstantGeekery have you ever used the SM 7DB microphone?

@@Bradleybrookwood no. I’ve heard good things, but it wouldn’t work for my setup as it would have to be in shot.

Rescuezilla is basically a GUI for Clonezilla.

I'm researching this with a plan to try it out in a future video. As I understand it, Kryptonite uses OpenCore boot loader to inject patches itself, so it's a case of making sure the driver support is present. When you patch with OCLP it makes sure you have appropriate graphics drivers, since Apple doesn't provide them for non-supported systems in the OS release. The developer of Kryptonite has made all the source code available for integration into OCLP - it makes sense to have one patcher doing everything. I can't see from the Github page what the current status of this is. I have noted that there seems to be an AVX2 CPU requirement in the Sonoma drivers for RX6000 series GPUs, so those don't work properly yet. I have a couple of 5700 cards to test, and I'm hopeful that those could be made to work.

Mine too! What are you specs, and if you don't mind, what did you pay?

@@Fred_Raimer 8 core / 64gb of ram/ D700 for 300 without the har drive. But I bought a 1tb SSD for 70 on Amazon. I also dual boot with windows 11 on an external SSD. It runs great. I used a tiny11 version.

@@Fred_Raimer I also repasted the GPUs as well.

Was it Phil Schiller's "can't innovate anymore, my ass"? 😁

@@ConstantGeekery exactly the quote, and I’ll trust you that it was Schiller.

If you use 128GB it clocks down to 1066.

@@ConstantGeekeryThanks for your incredibly fast reply! You saved me a lot of bother as I had ordered 128MB at a great price, but not worth it if speed drops. This is a great series and I am thrilled to use such a beauty as my "daily driver." I look forward to your next installments!! Thanks for all your efforts and generous sharing. Take care, Fred

I agree, but I'd take the 2667V2 8-core or the 10-core over the 12-core. Unless you specifically need 24 threads, the other CPUs offer better real-world performance.

Indeed, as I have said many times, you are better going for Apple Silicon. Of course, this series is about having fun with an old machine, not trying to compare it to new. You shouldn't base a performance assessment of two different architectures from two different eras on Geekbench 6 scores - it doesn't paint a true picture of the performance differential, which is not as wide as these figures suggest.

@@ConstantGeekery Then come up with a better benchmark and tell me how big the performance difference is in a real world test? Geekbench’s only purpose is to get an idea of how fast a computer is compared with another. More than twice as fast seems significant to me. Whereas +10% with better RAM is negligible.

@@jansix4287 I'm not comparing old Mac Pros to Apple Silicon. That is not the point of this video or the series. Providing comparisons with Apple Silicon is utterly pointless - this is about enjoying an iconic, older Mac as a bit of fun, and exploring its usefulness. The RAM test is therefore completely relevant to the subject matter. You need to understand that x86 and Arm are different architectures, and a general purpose benchmark like GB6 does not adequately display the performance gaps between the various strengths and weaknesses of those architectures. It's great for comparing two identical architectures, but otherwise it is a general comparison. The CPU score alone does not factor in GPU performance, or hardware optimisations like video decoders/encoders, which may have a big impact on specific workflows. It's just a set of general tests, intended to represent a "typical" workflow... but not necessarily YOUR workflow. The vast majority of tasks are not bottlenecked by maximum CPU performance. And those GB6 tests include ML workloads which didn't exist when the E5-v2 Xeons were released, so any benchmark factoring them in to an overall average, is going to skew that overall average. In real-world computing, therefore, the gap is not as wide as it might seem. I will in future videos demonstrate how the Mac Pro compares to more modern hardware, but not because I'm recommending it over modern choices - I've never done that - but because it's interesting to see how older machines can still be useful.