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[–] LiamSora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For a while I was using a 10 year old Mac Pro G5 as a home server. Conveniently it also doubled as a space heater in the winter.

[–] Phoephus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It also has 2 Ethernet ports so it can ~~double~~ triple as a cheese grater. :D

[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Old macs are particularly useful as build servers- it's not straightforward to get a fully featured OSX vm to build and test on.

[–] RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it’s really difficult to get Mac OS virtualized… I don’t know why, but my VMs always slow down after about 15 minutes and are unusable.