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by: cravencondor August 27, 2009 12:43 PM PDT

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Snow Leopard Update requirements?

by cravencondor - 8/27/09 12:43 PM

Having looked at several sites including Apple I am still confused
clicking on "about this MAC" on my MAC PRO 1.1 running 10.5.8 I get the following

2X 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon

Nowhere do I find this item on either the OK or Not-OK list for full compatibility - I see references to "Core Duo" and similar but none to "Dual-Core"
It seems that Snow Leopard will run but not take full advantage of capabilities

also it seems that I have the old PCI bus ( it just says PCI no PCI 1 or PCI 2)and old graphics processor (NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT:)
Does anyone know where to get the graphics upgrade kit?
B&H which has been suggested elsewhere has none
shame on Apple for discontinuing this item


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by BeatleMegaFan - 8/27/09 4:32 PM

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All Mac Pros are fully supported under SL. SL requires a Mac with an Intel processor, and in your case, you have two. You seem to have one of the original Pros, so you missed out on the quad-core chips.

"I see references to 'Core Duo' and similar but none to 'Dual-Core'
It seems that Snow Leopard will run but not take full advantage of capabilities."

You are sorely misinformed here. An Intel Core Duo processor, or a Core 2 Duo, is named such because it has, wait for it, two separate processor cores inside the CPU! All Intel Macs are based off of the original Core Duos or the later Core 2 Duos/Xeons. As I just said, Snow Leopard requires an Intel Mac; the new system is optimized for Intel Macs and Intel Macs alone, thus they will take FULL advantage of your machine's hardware. The new optimizations remove the old PowerPC code and upgrade the rest of the system's framework. I'd recommend visiting Apple's website.

If you go on Apple's online store, you'll also find that they off a couple of new graphics cards for the Mac Pros. While expensive, they offer a lot more performance than your 7300 GT. Not so sure about your PCI slot, but the PCI tab in System Profiler is showing me a speed link, so I would search the web with the info you find there.

-BMF


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(NT) you're not just fine, you are super fine.

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 8/27/09 5:19 PM

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