2013 Mac Pro Replica Built Out of an Actual Trashcan

Updated: January 16, 2014

2013 Mac Pro Replica Built Out of an Actual Trashcan

Everyone has either heard or made a Mac Pro trashcan joke, but a man in Germany decided to take it one step further.

This gentleman decided to build a Hackintosh computer and used an actual trashcan as the case. No joke. The can even comes with a matching toilet brush!

The OS X-touting machine isn’t close to as powerful as the real Mac Pro, although it certainly looks like it! It is runs on an Intel Core i3 Haswell CPU, a Radeon 7750 video card for graphics, and has utilizes a Samsung SSD as well as an HDD in addition to the Gigabyte z87n Motherboard.

Source: TonyMac

Seth Hoke

Pretty cool…
calmdownbro

With enough money, he could build the same. Just add a TITAN, some extra cooling (either something capable of high RPM or multiple stacked on each other), and some i5. The new trashcan Apple goes up to 100C as well. So… it’s also easy to reconstruct.

But yeah, it takes money. (Much less than an original Mac Pro though.) And of course you can’t bring this to your local Starbucks. It’s not that hip.
- Gabriel Fonseca
  
  The titan is too long to fit unless they make a shorter profile titan.
  - calmdownbro
    
    Well, depends on the size of the trash can. With some clever tricks, you can make this work. Not like there is any point in all this. (See the image when the new Mac is compared to the old one. The old had everything inside in it. The new one needs a shitload of cables and stuff just to have the same range of things included. Sure as hell we are moving forward.)
    
    Edit: Don’t get me wrong here. I love OS X. It’s everything I love from Windows and unix. Got the unix tools, I can install any unix software I want. And it’s got stability, modern kernel. Really, it’s the best of both worlds.
    And I don’t hate MAC machines either.
    But currently, only the Mac Mini is something worth paying for. The MacBook Pro is just too small. (15″ at most). The Air is outpowered and outlasted by Sony’s laptop. The Mac Pro… is just way too overpriced. I’d rather build a hackintosh and use that for work, even at a company. (well, I know one that does this.)
    
    I have an iMac at work (too). The OS X is god-tier. But the machine is just pure crap. 50+% of the displays got some issues, and it’s pricy as hell to fix them. The machine is weak too. So yeah. It’s “meh” at best.
    - Tirus
      
      You more or less sum up my problems with Apple. They seem to think they make this golden Computers that shine like nothing else but they fail to make them competitively priced. Also the lack of real options for the their products. yea.. “Think different.” I can’t with MACs, your way or the highway.
      
      I have no problem with their software but they really need to have a better grasp of cutting edge hardware. Also, Aesthetics are nice but should be a secondary consideration to performance and usability. The lack of internal storage in the Mac Pro seems insanely silly for a workstation.
      - orbitly
        
        I know a bunch of people that are the real customers of workstations. They’ve all got a couple RAID arrays for their customers documents. Store nothing but the OS and applications on the internal hard drive. 250GB of insanely fast PCIe storage is better than a terabyte 7200RPM HDD for them.
    - orbitly
      
      Odd, I consider the Mac Mini the only Mac not worth buying at all. I just built a Hackintosh for my friend with a Haswell Core i3 3.5GHz, 8GB 1600MHz RAM, 1TB HDD, Intel HD 4600 graphics for $360. Runs perfectly, just like any real Mac on OS X 10.9.2. A Mac Mini with a Ivy Bridge mobile Core i7 2.3GHz (similar in benchmarks to current desktop i3), 8GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, and the Intel HD 4000 graphics runs $900. The only advantage is size and support. Whereas the iMac has a brilliant display in it. Even Apple’s own $999 monitor isn’t nearly as good. The MacBook Pro is the only laptop I would personally use at the moment due to the display (2560×1600 on 13″, 2880×1800 on 15″, basically everything I’ve found so far on OS X supports HIDPI, unlike Windows), trackpad, and build quality and thinness. A few Windows laptops come close in display and thinness, but Windows at the moment is useless with a HIDPI display. Not even Chrome supports it. The trackpad is the number two reason for sure. It’s not just the hardware, several ultra books now have multitouch glass trackpads like Apple, but the software is utter shit for it when comparing to a MacBook on OS X. The Mac Pro is a great option for it’s customer. It’s customers are not the kinds of organizations that can just build Hackintosh’s. They need workstation hardware and support. Sony doesn’t make computers anymore…
- Bender
  
  Uhh, the real Mac Pro uses Xeons not i5s and it has workstation GPUs in it, a gaming GPU cannot compete with the shear rendering power and accuracy of a workstation GPU, let alone two of them. Your solution would be far from “the same.”
  - Matt Culler
    
    The D300 GPU has approximately 10 – 15% less performance than the AMD 7870 GPU. And one titan performs on par with two 7870′s. So the titan can certainly hold its own.
    
    The only real upside to the D300′s would be the workstation capabilities, but the Titan is no slouch there either.
    - Bender
      
      The D300 performs worse than the 7870 in what? Games? This is to be expected it’s not for gaming.
      
      I never said the Titan is a bad GPU.. Workstation GPUs are made to render things as accurately as possible. Gaming GPUs are made to render things as quickly as possible while sacrificing accuracy since you wouldn’t notice it if a single frame was rendered incorrectly considering 30+ of those frames are displayed in a second.
      - Austin Nichols
        
        the titan is a workstation gpu tailored for gaming. it is still a very capable rendering card. i use a pair of titans in my home office desktop paired with a 3930k and they eat revit like nothing i’ve ever seen.
  - Benderson
    
    Titan is not a gaming GPU, it’s a taylored tesla.
  - dub dub
    
    your an idiot
    - lol faaigt
      
      you’re*
      - anagramyou
        
        anagram: your a faagit
  - calmdownbro
    
    The Xeon is a server processor. Implying you need one for desktop tasks. Heck, an Intel i7 Extreme edition would give you enough threads (with multi threading or even without that).
    
    Also: If you need a Xeon … for don’t know what reason… have you ever looked at Dell workstations for example? They featured two CPUs for years.
    
    GPU: TITAN is not a gaming GPU. Second: You can buy a Quadro, or the same workstation Radeon GPUs into a desktop as well.
    
    The new MAC Pro is a design/engineering masterpiece in regards of design and such. (Well, to those who love it.) It’s a powerful computer for in a small form factor. But it’s nothing unique either.
Dani Filth

80% cheaper than the real version.
- Tirus
  
  Also lower specs. The Mac Pro has a minimum 4 core Xenon proccessor,
  12gigs of ram and 2 powerful Firepro cards. This thing has an i3
  processor, only 2 ram slots instead of 4, and a radeon 7750 graphics.
  While it makes a nice lan gaming Rig, it hardly compares to the Mac Pro
  Workstation. This computer would be useless to someone with WS needs.
  - Jake
    
    But one could build it with similar or better specs for much cheaper than the Mac Pro.
    - Tirus
      
      but then it wouldn’t be 80% cheaper. You could upgrade to 16gb ram, i7 processor, but with his current setup I dunno if he could accommodate a bigger GPU. Now though there the Raven RVZ01 Case (coming soon!) that Can accommodate a nice sized GPU and still have a tiny foot print plus internal HD/SSDs to boot. However, it still not a Xeon Processor, dual workstation GPUs, and up to 32gbs of ram. We could go back and forth on this. The Mac pro meets some peoples needs and not others. You looking for a small powerful system for cheap, PC is definitely the way to go and lots of options. Others prefer something already assembled and ready to go.
      - BobbieDooley
        
        Good point; It seems that Apple as become real good at designing something… I guess that “something” is high-quality heat-sinks.
        
        Apple used to make computers.
    - Blake
      
      But not the same size, and it wouldn’t be all that much cheaper then a mac pro. for some people, the compact size and incredible performace is worth the price.
    - Bill
      
      It actually doesn’t seem like it. to get equivalent GPU’s (W7000s) cost ~$1500 by themselves. I specked one out at $2600 without a case, PSU, or OS. So it seems about the same.
      - Ozfer
        
        you seem to forget we could go with a more powerful non “workstation” 780 ti or faster and get better performance for only $600
      - Nick Carrière
        
        You seem to not know that some programs will only use workstation graphics and won’t run properly or at all on regular cards.
      - Ozfer
        
        Most cad software works with 780, most video editing programs work with 780, all games work with 780, photoshop works with 780. Still we could go with the 780s sister the titant that is a workstation gpu and while it would cost $400 more and be slightly less fast then a 780ti it would still be over $1000 cheaper. Much software would work on both and both are better then the firepro and at a cheaper price. There isn’t any main software that that wont run at all on high end graphics cards unless you are designing your own software.
      - Nick Carrière
        
        I cannot recall the software names because I am not in any of the industries that require a workstation GPU. I use AutoCAD and Civil3D and I know those work on any GPU. But I do know there is software that you must hack in order to use desktop GPUs. Either way, this replica can’t come close to the specs of the current Mac Pro. That is the whole point of the topic. Everyone knows you can make a Mac Pro “equivalent” for cheaper in terms of specs. Unless someone sets out to do what apple did and completely redesign a computer to match what they did. In that case, it would cost them more to make than to buy a Mac Pro. Even to get a small system with this much performance is tricky.
      - Ozfer
        
        I just priced out a system on pc part picker and it has 2 of the same cpu the mac pro has (24 cores) same 1TB pci-e ssd, 2 of my better video cards (expandable to 4 not just limited to 2) same ram and everything plus a gaming keyboard and mouse for over $1500 less then the mac. If you only went with 1 cpu like the mac it would be around $5,000 less for the same thing. Note the size wouldn’t be as small but other then that idc if my pc is a bit bigger if it has 2-4x more performance and is over $1,000 cheaper. I have used non workstation gpus with autocad, solidworks, keycreator, photoshop, sony vegas, and many other professional studios.
      - Nick Carrière
        
        First of all, this has to be done. ” less then the mac”.
        “less THAN the mac”, it is basic English.
        
        Okay anyway, what I said was EVERYONE KNOWS that you can make an equivalent for cheaper. Second it probably isn’t 24 cores, it is probably 12 cores hyper-threaded since a 12 core CPU doesn’t exist. Oh and “virtual cores” doesn’t actually change how many processes a core can take at once. For example, 1 core with 2 threads means 1 thread has a process ready while the other thread processes it. Once it is completed it will move onto the next thread to process what it has ready. ANYWAY, like i said, everyone knows this can happen, I am talking strictly about size and a good cooling solution. What you priced out I know will take up most of the room in a large tower like mine (HAF X). So read my comment and understand it before you reply. THANKS
  - BobbieDooley
    
    Sounds like last year’s model. I guess last year’s model is worthless too..?
chavok

nice, started with the perfect home for a mac. the trash can.
Frederik damgaard jensen

Couldnt you use one of the Asus or MSI short gtx 760′s they are both just as long as the sapphire HD 7750 that he is using?
Daryl Lee

wil a gtx 650 ti fit on this?
Natzzzy9119

Who agrees That apple ruined the classic mac pro turning it into a stupid proprietary trashcan