platypus-
There are a few knocking around. There’s definitely a 4.1 there and I think there might be another 5.1. I’m currently trying to get an OS on the one I took, but I’m having trouble doing the firmware update for high Sierra.
I’m not sure what the situation is but I’ll see if any others are up for grabs and let you know.
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By way of an update, at the moment it doesn't look like I can go and grab another one
BUT I have a sneaking suspicion that at some point they're just going to want to get rid of the lot of them to make room in their studio, at which point I will attempt to intercept as many of the ones not currently bricked as possible (one more 5.1 and a couple of 4.1s).I managed to get mine up and running yesterday - took me a while to get the firmware updated to run High Sierra, but it's all sorted now and running fine. In fact that reminds me I need to enable SIP again!
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AlexD
That’s a really useful link, thank you!
The tl:dr appears to be that 2010+ is better as it’s already 5.1, but the 2009 with 4.1 I currently have in my possession can be flashed to 5.1 easily and then it’s pretty much the same. I can then look in to any hardware upgrades in the new year. There’s already plenty of ram and something like a total of 4tb of storage in there, which is great for PS/AE scratch disk.
edit: there's one of these up for grabs so I'll go with that one. Faster and already has 5.1 firmware.