

The process of installing High Sierra and completing the updates to get the latest patches was very smooth and I experienced no issues. Apple Bootable Installer – Apple Support. I downloaded a version of High Sierra and created a bootable USB stick using this tutorial. The HD was clean and ready for a fresh installation of Mac OS. The unit had a 3.2 Xeon with 16gb of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1024mb). It is a Mac Pro 5,1 or designation A1289. The image below shows the version of the Mac Pro I was given. There are a lot of tutorials on the internet to show how this is achieved but I wanted to share some thoughts on how the process went. After a long time looking at tutorials on the internet I decided to get a new ‘metal’ enabled graphics card to update the OS X to ‘Mojave’ from ‘High Sierra’. I have recently been gifted an old Mac Pro 5,1 from around 2010.
