The first round in March 2015, was to swap out the 4 core processor for a 6 core. Over time and with the help of my friend Richard “Rich” Rogers formerly of UK Mac specialists Create Pro, we performed two different upgrades. When I first bought my 2009 Mac Pro, from the UK Apple Refurb store it was a 2.8GHz 4 core machine and at the time it ran rings around just about any other machine (PC or Mac) on the market. I was making the move to what, at the time, I referred to as ‘The Dark Side.’ I was swapping my 2009 Mac Pro for a brand new HP Z840 Workstation running Windows 10. As we have stated on numerous occasions which OS you use is down to you, neither story is an attempt to convert you.īack in March 2017 I shut down my fully pimped 12 core “Cheese Grater” Mac Pro for potentially the last time. We wanted to give all sides of the picture, Russ gave his reasons for sticking with Mac and I want to tell you why, after a long time as a Mac user, I switched to using Windows. Last week we gave the results of our Pro Tools Computer user survey, for some the results were quite a shock and for others not so.
