Mac Pro... not sure if want.

[TheMacGuy]

Lion was one of those OSes I consider a between OS, due to the fact that it included some new feature that looked half baked when Mountain Lion came out, and included bug fixes from SL. ML is a fully fledged OS, great iCloud features, new Safari features, gestures, a bunch of stuff. Definitely a great OS. Sad part is the original Mac Pro can't run it, which is a bummer because I wanted one for video editing. It requires a supported video card and EFI64 emulation.

 

[olePigeon]

So that the machines could only run Windows, and open source systems that put in the extra effort for OF on ia32? Apple would still have figured out how to make the original Mac Pro obsolete after however many software versions, and would probably still have implemented it wrong anyway.

Open Firmware can emulate BIOS in much the same way as EFI. The OLPC, for example, uses Open Firmware with a BIOS emulator to run Windows. Linux and UNIX already work thanks to Sun (Oracle.)

At least as it stands, you can choose between Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, Linux, BSD, bare-metal hypervisors, etc.

I don't know much about hypervisors, but everything else on your list would run just fine with Open Firmware. I'm not talking about going gack to PowerPC, I think the switch to Intel was smart. But not sticking with Open Firmware is very annoying.

 

[directive0]

I couldn't stand the old video card anymore. Ripped it out and just for shiz and gigs I put in my gt-240 from my old dell. Black screen at startup, but I could hear it churning away. Finally it loaded up to the login screen and now everything seems great. I get about the same performance but it is WAY quieter. I'm super happy.

I wish that it gave me more info on boot though. Not being able to see the startup sequence means I can't use the drive selection feature on boot. :|

Still, WAY happier without that constant whining and wheezing when I scroll a web page.

 

[redrouteone]

Can you flash the card?