never really liked apple, even as a kid it was mediocore experience compared to pc.

I dunno maybe if you got something to shoot at it, its worth buying.

imac?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac

The last pre-trashcan model would have been a "MacPro 5,1" refreshed in 2012. The high-end CPU option was dual Xeon E5645s, which are more-or-less equivalent to a power-limited Core i7-970/980. I don't remember this generation being known for efficiency, although that always depends on your workload and what you're comparing it to.

The 2012 model is the last tower MacPro. I still have 2 of them and no they are not very efficient by today's standards. They are also pretty much broken at this point for current macOS releases via OpenCORE Legacy Patcher and you'll also likely need to get a BIOS flashed GPU to support getting even a somewhat recent version of macOS installed without it being a slideshow.

IMO it surely is not worth the effort. As for playing games on them; don't bother there is hardly anything that plays well on them even with all of the ports from aspire.

G4 and G6 Mac Pro I believe they were called. They were nice cases though with exceptionally good airflow

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

G4 and G6 Mac Pro I believe they were called. They were nice cases though with exceptionally good airflow

G4 was the PowerPC MacPro and is way old. The "cheese grater" models were not G4s. The original ones were G5 power PC just before the transition to Intel. The last were the MacPro 5,1 in 2012

G5 yea that's the one. Yes that was still Power PC before Apple switched to Intel CPUs for a while

IIRC the G5 was as good as having dual Pentium 3 or dual Pentium 4 CPUs at the time of release

Yeah, "PowerPC" as a brand practically ceased to exist after "G5", although they kept using variations of older cores in embedded processors. IBM is arguably still carrying the torch of the original "AIM alliance", but I guess it's mostly propped up by government-sponsored supercomputer contracts these days.

I only remember the one that was ACTUALLY good. It was a dual socket 771 mac tower, which had a pair of 4 core xeons, in 2 sockets, it was cool. 8 ancient cores with 8 threads.
But still it was trash compared to other workstation/HEDT mobos. Its MSRP was trash compared to other dual socket 771 boards.
Literally 3,600$ for that, while asus/gigabyte/msi relatives were costing a ton lower, despite more pcie connectors/dimms/vrm phases.

I not even KNOW what either is (as I never cared for overpriced apple crap)
but google says the last pc with the cheece grater design is the 2019 mac pro but that was a trowback.

-> if you want the last one before the dustbin design (which started in 2013) you are thus looking at the macbook pro from 2013

引用自 Crowbot：

Got it in my head to pick up one of those old mac towers to goof around with and maybe try and play some period games on. What was the last (and presumably the one with the best processor) version put out.
Feel free to talk me out of this fool's errand in an amusing manner if you'd like. I think I heard they are very efficient so if that's true let me know.

It's the other way round and trashcan design was before cheese grater.
What was before trash can was a very cool looking more standard tower case.

https://www.macworld.com/article/670425/complete-history-of-pro-macs-apple-lisa-quadra.html

引用自 C1REX：

引用自 Crowbot：

Got it in my head to pick up one of those old mac towers to goof around with and maybe try and play some period games on. What was the last (and presumably the one with the best processor) version put out.
Feel free to talk me out of this fool's errand in an amusing manner if you'd like. I think I heard they are very efficient so if that's true let me know.

It's the other way round and trashcan design was before cheese grater.
What was before trash can was a very cool looking more standard tower case.

https://www.macworld.com/article/670425/complete-history-of-pro-macs-apple-lisa-quadra.html

It's not the other way around. The original G5 chassis that was carried over to the first Intel based MacPros were referred to as "cheese graters" way back in 2003 - 2006 and was continued through the last one in 2012 prior to the trashcan. The "newer" one was also referred to as a "cheese grater" as it went back to a more similar design to the original G5 tower.