I'd wanted a 2013 trashcan Mac Pro for years, and finally got one from a very friendly graphic designer in December 2022 for a great price ($400 plus postage). This Mac Pro had the base 3.7 GHz quad-core CPU, D300 GPUs and 16 GB of RAM, but I upgraded the RAM to 64 GB and installed a 2 TB NVMe SSD through a simple adapter. Just a couple of days ago, I replaced the CPU with a 3 GHz 10-core E5-2690 v2, which was never offered by Apple and is substantially better-value than the official configurations. You could get a 3 GHz trashcan Mac Pro from Apple, but with only 8 cores. I've upgraded the CPUs in both of my Mac Pros - a couple of weeks ago, I upgraded my 2010 5,1 Mac Pro with two 3.06 GHz six-core CPUs - and I'm incredibly pleased with how my trashcan CPU upgrade turned out.

Hi, bought a used Mac Pro on eBay and it is a basic model but they seller was amazing. Well packaged it was clean as a whistle I mean outside inside I opened it not a speck of dust.The seller was on point.

I got the same configuration as you in Singapore. The 6-core, with 32 GBs of RAM and with the dual D700s and 512 GB SSD. Cost me about SGD $1900. It was late build in 2018 based on serial number I checked. Pricey still but excellent condition. But you got a real steal. Mine serves as a home theatre computer with external Asus Blu-ray drive attached and with Blu Ray Pro software. Wont beat a Mac Mini but it's got a classy design and something that all PCs and computers should strive. But NVDIA has to come up with massive GPUs in 2023-24 and their RTX 4090 alone costs SGD $2980! A refurbished M3 16-inch MBP goes for only SGD $3079! For once, Apple product is cheaper!

Wish they were as cheap here in the UK. Want one for my collection.

I ended up not getting a refurbished one on Amazon I found a fully maxed out model for only $400 on eBay!

This Mac is the CHEAPEST way to get in to the macOS eco system on an actual MAC hands down. They can be upgraded (watch KZfaq videos if you do this) and with OCLP contrary to what some people are saying CAN run Sonoma 14.5 like butter.

It’s not really worth getting. A maxed out trash can can’t even beat the entry level M1 Mac mini, both in CPU and GPU performance in real usage. You can also boot the M1 Mac mini from an external thunderbolt enclosure+drive, so memory swap wouldn’t brick your Mac.

i've had good luck on Ebay Buying a Used MacBook Pro several years ago and an LG Monitor more recently

hey , it is better to get Mac mini 2018 i7 6 cores 16 GB RAM ddr4 or Mac pro 2013 64 GB RAM DDR Xeon 4 cores . I will use for excel , ( I am economic student). I feel love for Mac pro but i am wondering if this is not too old machine. thanks for answer

I bought one last year, It's not worth it for thw follwng reasons: 1. macOS Monetrey is the last OS (Can be upgraded using Oepncore but you lose stability and performance due to cpu/gpu instrustion are old) 2. Thunderbolt 2 in Windows (BootCamp) is very bad and not hot swappable so if any Thunderbolt peripherals are connected must do a cold boot: which connects the devcie before turning on the mac pro to detect the device-SSD-Thunderbolt Dick etc...) and teh big problem is the computer will not go to sleep 3. Limited upgradability.