“New” low end Mac Pro Quad now 3.2GHz… :-(

[Michael Sanders]

My apologies – bad week. Very sorry.

Surely though its up to Nvida and ATI to work with Apple on this and write the drivers for their high end cards?

Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor

[Steve Connor]

[Michael Sanders] “My apologies – bad week. Very sorry.

Surely though its up to Nvida and ATI to work with Apple on this and write the drivers for their high end cards?
“

Is there a power issue with the newer cards in the “New” MacPro’s old motherboard?

Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
Adrenalin Television

[Robert Brown]

[Phil Hoppes] “Done debating this one. The patient is dead…. it just doesn’t know it yet.”

He’s dead Jim. I guess more graceful than a full out EOL but they’ve now established clearly which way they are headed.

Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro

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[Dennis Radeke]

[Itamar Naamani] “Mac Pro officially pronounced dead”

Not as long as there are some Mac people holding out hope… The statute of limitations for hope for a MacPro tower apparently has no expiration date.

[Tim Wilson]

Apple has never been interested in supporting the highest-end graphics on Macs. Never.

This happened before some of you kids were born, but for the first 2 years, Mac didn’t even support color! They behind the industry in this respect, and even behind themselves, as the Apple IIgs introduced color a year earlier.

I’m a big fan of the Quadro 4000, but have you seen what the 6000 can do? Or what NVIDIA’s Maximus technology, which ties together 2 GPUs? Or SLI, which ties together up to 4? This has been around since, what? 2005? OpenGL? Bueller? Bueller?

There are many, many reasons to use Macs, and maybe even reasons to believe that a new Mac Pro is coming…uhm, someday…but no reason to believe that its graphics will even attempt to meet the state of the art in pro graphics. Apple swings for the fences in a lot of things, MOST things…but not with this.

A little sensitive about this because it’s what made Macs impossible for me to use as a primary platform anymore. I was not happy about it. Doing fine now, thanks. LOL

Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou

[Craig Seeman]

[Robert Brown] ” I guess more graceful than a full out EOL”

It’s like watching a decaying corpse.