{"id":20914,"date":"2016-07-26T06:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20914"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:23:20","slug":"ok-now-were-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/07\/26\/ok-now-were-done\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Now We’re Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"16GB-RAM\"<\/a>With the addition of 16GB of RAM (four matched chips of 4GB RAM) my used\/new-to-me Mac Pro is ready to go!<\/p>\n

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\"4-HD-bays\"<\/a>As I recently wrote,<\/a> my G5 Mac Pro which the world and Apple’s marketing department has shunned as being obsolete finally did give up the ghost<\/em>, I replaced it with a newer but still used Mac Pro. This will serve as our production machine in that it will happily run our old, boxed desktop applications as well as the latest and greatest. Now with the addition of 16GB of RAM it will all run very happily.<\/p>\n

Production machine, start producing!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the addition of 16GB of RAM (four matched chips of 4GB RAM) my used\/new-to-me Mac Pro is ready to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[317,518],"tags":[295,3922,324,3923,296,1001],"class_list":["post-20914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-joes-garage","tag-apple","tag-bargain","tag-computer","tag-graphic-design","tag-mac","tag-used"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11689,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/02\/05\/more-thoughts-on-the-hackintosh\/","url_meta":{"origin":20914,"position":0},"title":"More thoughts on the Hackintosh","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I have successfully built a Hackintosh or, as the folks at Tonymacx86 call it, a CustoMac Mini, and the more I think of it, the more it makes sense. 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