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Mac Pro Teardown 2: Teardown Harder

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This is the part that caught my attention:

> We noticed a few cavities around the edges of the impeller filled with some sort of epoxy (on both sides). We suspect it's for fine-tuned balancing, to keep the fan running smooth and quiet.

Apple is balancing the fans they put in the computers. What other manufacturer would do that? I love Apple's little details.

> Apple is balancing the fans they put in the computers. What other manufacturer would do that? I love Apple's little details.

Noctua, for example? http://www.noctua.at/

I've used a Noctua fan in one of my builds, they are fantastic.

Individually that's not much gold. Anyone able to estimate how much, and what it would cost at today's gold prices?

One bendit of having that there is that people really want gold, and so those machines are going to get a thorough teardown at end of life, which should help with reclaiming and recycling all the other stuff.

So that's why macs are more expensive! Maybe there's a gold bar tucked away in your macbook pro right now.

Mine feels heavy enough to contain some bullion.

will linux run on these things? what's linux support for the new connectors they have?

What exactly in Linux you do that is not possible in OSX?

Dumbest comment I've read all week

No I'm really questioning this. I have both OSX and Ubuntu machines. For command line tools they are equal. Absolutely everything that works on Ubuntu (CLI app) works on OSX too. So what's the Linux advantage when you already paid for OSX?!

Package management is harder with OSX. With Linux, I can install everything from the commandline with an OS supported utility (e.g. yum).

With OSX, I'm left with 3rd party installers like brew which never really line up the dependencies completely.

Package management, kernel modifications, the ability to know whether or not your machine is back-doored, among other things. The ability to run an OS that will actually run on other hardware. The fact that it's open source also has a lot of indirect value to many of us as well.

I was with you until you implied Linux can't be back-doored. There's nothing about Linux that makes it immune to rootkits or backdoors despite what the hype would have you believe. Remember, Apple used to say the same thing about Macs, but you don't hear a lot of that rhetoric nowadays.

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