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Who uses, recommends or left Mac Pro, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Game designer and programmer, co-creator of Doom and Quake; co-founder of Romero Games.
loved

I've been using the same Mac Pro since it was released three years ago and it's still incredible.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: his game-development machines and software.

2017-06-22·usesthis.com ↗

Cartoonist and theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics.
liked

For years, I've happily used a succession of mid-range Mac Pros stuffed with extra memory and storage.

His Uses This interview, on the digital setup he draws comics with.

2014-08-12·usesthis.com ↗

Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
uses

My main machine is a 2x2.8 GHz Mac Pro (Early 2008) with 8 GB of RAM, dual optical drives, an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card, and 3.5 TB of disk space spread over four internal drives

His written "Uses This" interview, describing his Mac Pro setup, backup regime and software.

2009-07-01·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.