[jwhat]

HI ghost180sx & Shiunbird,

so yes my new Mac Pro 2019 is now main "desk botton" ;-) and runs very quiety under desk.

I went for last of Intel boxes as I run lots and lots of VM as part of SW development, so need a lot of grunt, storage and RAM.

I had considered using UTM (basically QEMU) but by all reports running Intel VMs via QEMU emulation on Apple Silicon runs like a dog.

To help pay for the 2019 my much loved 2012 has gone to eBay.

It had been upgraded over the years to dual 3.46, PIxlas power mod with Nvidia Titan X CPU and 10GbE. So I got 12 years use out of it.

I stopped using the 2012 box as desktop some time ago when Apple/Nvidia had falling out and the macOS upgrades stopped, so it got relegated to use as server.

I am hoping that Apple will give a few more release of macOS before dropping Intel support completely, as I use Photoshop a lot and Mac has always been great Photoshop platform.

BTW, ghost did you get your Onyx2 back to Canada from Oz ?

Cheers from Oz,


what/John