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Gave the 2009 #MacPro cheesegrater a pre-summer service. Pulled every major component & blasted with the air-compressor. Re-greased the northbridge and processors (x-pattern).

Back together, temps are down about 5-8c, & ready for another year’s work.
Chassis & motherboards from 2009, processors & RAM from ~2011, Wifi from ~2014, spinning storage from 2009-2020, SSDs from 2018-2020, Graphics from 2019.

By a large margin, the most stable #Mac I’ve ever owned.

The sealed & non-upgradable = stability hypothesis is horseshit.
What makes these old #Cheesegrater #MacPro stable in a way the 2013 wasn’t & the 2019 isn’t (go look it up, the 2019 is a crapfest of wake from sleep issues), is that these machines are standard Intel reference designs - they’ve got the least #Apple, of any #Mac, in them.
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