MacLochlainns Weblog

It was a forced upgrade to run TurboTax. The upgrade was simple because I work on a Mac Pro 2012 (with 64 GB of memory and 12 TB of storage. As you can tell from Apple’s support article, you must upgrade the video card.

I bought the SAPPHIRE Radeon PULSE RX 580 8 GB GDDR5 but when I went to install it after upgrading to macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), there was a catch. The original mother board supports a six socket power supply, which Apple failed to mention in their support article. That meant that I had to order a StarTech.com PCI Express 6 pin to 8 pin Power Adapter Cable.

While I still prefer Apple, I don’t appreciate policy of removing devices from their supported parts list. Does Tim really need to sell new Apple devices that badly that he wants to obsolete hardware when the audience can’t support it by disallowing 3rd party vendors from purchasing parts? I know it’s six years old machine but it also isn’t an entry level machine because it costs more than $6,000 with the memory.