7/20/2023 0 Comments 8 core mac pro ebaySince mountain lion came out, I've encountered multiple people claim they were selling a mac pro 3,1 - 5,1 when in reality they were selling pro 1,1 using boot loader. My favorite is that people just blatantly lie about what model a pro is. I regularly find people advertising mac pros on craigslist who turn around and send me photos of hackintoshes or describe a hackintosh. If it is too good to be true.īasically, ebay and craigslist are full of modified mac minis and mac pros that are hack jobs. Just wanted to share this with my fellow MR's members. I guess no one ever blew the whistle on their fraud-like practices. They had solid feedback, but there's always risk on eBay.I know that I could have built this machine for a few hundred less. ![]() In the end they refunded $100.so we paid $2300 for this machine. ![]() Well a lower mileage 2012 BMW has a much higher value than a similar spec'd higher mileage 2009 BMW right? They claimed it was the identical machine. The eBay description did not mention anything about receiving an upgraded / flashed machine. The eBay seller: ipowerresale, not once acknowledged the difference between the stock 2012 3.33 hex and a 4,1 hack job. They offered a refund, but by now (11 days later) we had sold our other machine and sending this back was going to be a huge problem. The machine was whisper quite and runs rock solid. After a few days I received the missing parts and continued to test. I continued setting up the machine and added an SSD boot drive. The machine was missing 2 drive sleds and was missing the Airport card, which was a dead giveaway that this was a hack job. We immediately opened up an eBay case to try to sort this out. What I received was a 2009 4,1 flashed to mid 2010 5,1 w/ upgrade to 6-Core Intel Xeon with the other specs listed above. I opted to play it "safe" and purchase a Mac Pro Six Core 3.33 (Mid-2012/Westmere) w/ 16GB ram, 1TB HD, ATI Radeon 5870 for $2400, which I thought was fair compared to new equally spec'd machine. I am fully aware of the 4,1 -> 5,1 firmware flash and 6-core drop in upgrade. ![]() I recently dumped my Mac Pro 1,1 for what was described as a gently used Grade A, 2012 3.33 6 Core Westmere machine.
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