I already was using Macs Fan Control to set the fan to 100%, and still it was locking up. Worse it was locking up again at random times. So after setting up a desk, and the system, it performed like crap. I think I paid $200 HKD or so a year ago, but I like the feel of this style of mouse, and was happy to bring it with me. I picked up a View Sonic VX2770 for £45, I got this RED5 Gaming keyboard for £13, and I already had this Mad Catz 43714 mouse NIB with me. I didn’t take any big peripherals with me, as I figured I’d just get some new stuff, and didn’t worry about it at all. Obviously flying bumped things around, as I had kind of figured, but I’m getting ahead of myself. And it never fit exactly right, and I kind of screwed it in incorrectly, but it held in place. a NVMe M.2 module, it of course is too new for the 2013 machine, so I had to use a shim bridging the Mac’s NVMe SSD port to M.2 for my modern flash. Which sounds great, but this is where the fun begins.
As I’m on a business trip at the moment, I thought this would be a good time to test out what I had envisioned as the future of a personal server in a can.Ī long while ago, I’d bought a newer/faster/larger flash for the Mac Pro, and it was a simple matter of hitting the Windows key + R and the machine boots up into an internet recovery mode, and will install OS X Mavericks over the wire. Then years later, an artist id commish to do some stuff was selling their Mac Pro, as they’d gone all in on Hackintosh, and this was my chance to get one on the cheap. But things changed in my life, i was okay being tied down, and a regular Xeon desktop became my goto machine, a desktop would do just fine. And this little cylinder seemed to fir the bill. So at the time i had this idea that I wanted a Xeon workstation in a nice portable form factor. However instead, we got what everyone would know as the trash can.