A year later I abandoned the Mac Pro entirely for a Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro. I lamented the chassisвЂ™ lack of support for 2.5вЂќ drives. Little had changed externally since the PowerMac G5 I bought years ago.

He used a BitFenix Prodigy case, a great choice. I was surprised when my gamer friend settled on building a new desktop that was seriously small. IвЂ™d been on a mini-ITX kick for a while, but motherboard and case vendors kept reiterating as exciting as mini-ITX was, the sales volumes just werenвЂ™t there. Without any coercion on my part, he opted for a mini-ITX build. More recently, in 2012, I was talking to my friend Lyle who was setting out to build a new gaming PC. I wanted to give the platform a fair shake so I bought the fastest thing Apple offered back then: a 2GHz PowerMac G5. I spent most of my life at that point staying away from Apple hardware. This was the computer engineering department right? It wasnвЂ™t much later that I started my month with a Mac experiment. I remember walking into the lecture hall and seeing far too many PowerBooks and white iBooks. I was enrolled in ECE 466 at NCSU, a compiler optimization/scheduling class.

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