An apple to bring the whole family bucket - Mac Pro workstation out of the box

The working relationship has always been Apple Computer, and it took more than ten years to count it (Oh, he exposed the age again). Apple's leadingness, ease of use, and stability in hardware and operating systems are unmatched by the Wintel platform. The previous tower MacPro workstation took four or five years, because the reasons for upgrading the SSD are many, and the interface is old (USB2.0) can not tolerate, had to think New MacPro out for three years, wait for the new MacPro Will be released, but unfortunately can not tolerate that day, and usually the main work is still a flat picture class, rendering requirements are not particularly high;

In the end I still chose Cash Low with MacPro (low enough for my job, from the actual speed of operation, non-large 3D rendering, there is no faster than my 15MBP match with a lot of intuitive experience). Although everyone likes to call New Mac Pro as a trash can, but I prefer to call it a "bucket". This is an inexpensive and sufficient "bucket" that really resembles the KFC's takeaway family bucket. Let me take everyone out of the box. This is the only "outsourced family bucket" from Apple!


This is the outermost Prius transport box. There is a seal at the top. There is a small box label below, indicating the model and other information. It's too lazy to read and write some tricks. Anyway, I'm low, if I make a mistake If you don't give me a high table, I would be very hard to accept it (wake up, foreman called me to move bricks).

The first layer of Russian matryoshka is opened... There is a black box inside... It's better to call it black box.


I once learned about packaging design, so every time I open a box I will inevitably have to play and comment on occupational diseases. What I want to say about this paper tray is that it is not as hard as the pulp trays of the cartridges. It has been carefully studied. , It is double-layered and extremely flexible, it can play a good role in shock absorption; seemingly ordinary Apple packaging, everywhere highlights the intentions and unique design, Apple's packaging is the most professional I have ever seen There is not one of the packaging.

Looking at the inner box that is about to open soon, I feel very cold.

This pickpocket... oh, quite thick and rounded, although it is a desktop workstation, but if there is a need to go out to carry a MacPro, you can leave this box to use when it comes to running around with a carrying case. There is absolutely no problem.


I tore ...

The X-shaped foam card is easy to remove when it is used for fixing the host, saving material (environmental protection), and aesthetics. (When opening various products of other brands, people often face a square Difficult to remove the foam tray? Apple packaging designer's brain hole still seems to be larger)

MacPro mainframe, in order to prevent transport wear, the surface covered with a film.


The bottom is also an X-shaped foam tray, as well as a power cord and warranty book hidden inside.

The warranty book is glued to it. This is more important. It must be taken out.

The power cord is not as silly as a common PC. It is tied like a pig's intestine with a black tie, but it is neatly stacked with a paper tray. This is not the most orderly box you have ever seen. power cable? Like the internal structure design of MacPro, even packaging and power cords are everywhere with a neat and tidy appearance.

Found a small egg in the mezzanine on the lid of the box.

This black book is a concise manual that reads - Full speed ahead! Like this sentence, the content of the manual mainly reminds you not to put the host on the ground (such as China's air environment, this bottom-up forced cooling model on the ground must be a tragedy).

The black "black apple" logo looks very forbidding, but Apple's designers may not understand that "black apples" have a different meaning in China (a natural understanding), and if this black sticker is posted On a white car, from the perspective of Chinese culture, there will be a kind of “saluting” visual effect. This is a cultural difference.


Those "reluctant to tear film" fans can dispel the idea of ​​retaining the film. It is useless to tear the ports unless you dig a hole in the port.

I tore ...

The MacPro housing is stamped, polished, and plated from an aluminum ingot. The specific production process is quite interesting. Interested one can click on the video below.

After removing the shell, you can see the clean internal structure of the triangle. The strange thing in the middle is the SSD disk. The low-end 256G is only slightly less sensitive than the MBP. This strange shape and interface does not support other brands of SSDs, but The 2015 MBP SSD is said to fit on MacPro. Although the width is slightly wider, the speed can reach 2GB/S. If necessary, you can consider switching to a 1G.


There are four memory slots (two on the left and right sides), and only three of the 12G are inserted in the low-level configuration. You can consider adding another 4G. However, the memory expansion must be the original factory. The compatible intermixing cannot lead to a machine failure.


There is only one fan at the top of the unit. The cooling air duct mainly depends on the arc-shaped gap between the main board and the housing. Forced air cooling is performed from bottom to top. At room temperature 24 degrees, the host heat is only 36 degrees and the Cpu temperature is 40 degrees ( Standby)

At the instant of the power-on self-test, the backlight of each interface will light up. After entering the system, only the power lamp at the bottom right will illuminate.

Dual network port, if you really want to take the right of this network port, the following power button is really difficult to press.




The first boot, can not be directly connected to identify the wireless mouse, it is more depressing, to say that this Logitech's Bluetooth keyboard can not even connect, and how their own mouse does not recognize it? Not to mention the OSX EI system!


Well, DELL wired mouse and keyboard to play it, set up after the initial interface to say it.


When you log in, you can choose iColud or you can choose an ordinary password account. Because I don't have the same requirements, and iColud's password is too long and too cumbersome, I chose an ordinary account.

After some agonizing, he finally saw the desktop of the familiar OS X EI.

Successfully connected to the wireless mouse and keyboard after entering the system.


Because Apple's white keyboard is too dirty, and a keyboard can only connect the "anti-human" design of a device, I specifically chose the Logitech K380 which can connect three devices (the key is easy to use but also cheap), such a Workstations, a laptop, a cell phone, only need a keyboard, which greatly saves the desktop space; Apple's mouse is not as dirty as the keyboard, and the flat feel and touch function is my favorite, so On the mouse I chose Apple Magic Mouse2.


A 1.6M wide table requires two computers (sometimes three), every centimeter must be careful, the monitor has been replaced by a hydraulic support, the keyboard can only use one, and the space does not seem so Cramped.

The current hardware configuration is still in the original state, not in a hurry, and then slowly upgrade it, the current view is enough.

Although MacPro provides six lightning interfaces and can link up to 36 lightning devices, due to the price of lightning devices and brand alternatives, most people still use USB3.0 as the mainstay. This is now the usb disk array, 4-port USB HUB, as well as cell phone charging base and other tragic status (wait for me when I have free time should not be so ugly), it is estimated that Joe Father will see it vomiting blood .

So far this time the end of the box, hee hee ... ... was originally installed a BootCamp Win8, but the partition prompts a default capacity of 32G, at the time did not want to choose the next step, only to find only after the results 800M, not saying it was all tears, I re-zoned to install Win8.


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