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Slightly OT: Anyone order a fibre channel card from apple lately?
Just wondering since our new quad system is being held up because of a shortage of fiber channel cards right now… It’s being pushed back almost a whole month! Anyone else having similar experiences?
thanks
moody glasgow
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Yep, got one from B&H Photo three weeks ago and it was defective. Now I’m on a waiting list at four web sites waiting for the card to come in. Nobody has them and I’m hearing 3 – 8 weeks.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Ouch….
Well if B&H “mysteriously” has a card available I’ll know to pass on it… lol
moody glasgow
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Oops! Sorry, wrong forum.
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That doesn’t sound good. We just shipped back a 2.7 to apple as a lemon and they are replacing it with a quad. Problem is we had a kona 2 that now needs to be replaced with a kona 3 and aja doesn’t have a buy back program. Luckily the vendor we purchased the system from said they will buy it back. I won’t complain about the 300 more for the kona 3 card we need to spend as its probably a better card. We also need to replace the fibre card and if it takes another 3-8 weeks you can just add that time on to the 2 months we’ve arleady been without 1 station dealing with trying to get the computer fixed before apple would call it a lemon. That means the edit station is out a potential 4 months. The worst part about it is the guy who uses that edit station has a show shipping this quarter. So for the last 2 months he’s been using the station of who ever is on the road shooting! What a mess. In the end it will be a 900 dollar upgrade to go from a 2.7 kona 2 to a quad kona 3. Still not worth all the headaches though.
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have you tried ATTO? They make PCI-e fibre cards.
Jeremy
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Same thing here .. Heard that Apple is updating them, and that is the reason why they are out of stock. Thank God we don’t start editing our first movie after the summer.
Anders
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[moodyglasgow] “Well if B&H “mysteriously” has a card available I’ll know to pass on it… lol”
They’re already replacing the defective one when it shows up. I’m just trying to order a second one for our upcoming purchases too. I heard something about Apple is updating the card or something so that’s why they are out of stock at the moment.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[Jeremy Doyle] “We just shipped back a 2.7 to apple as a lemon and they are replacing it with a quad. Problem is we had a kona 2 that now needs to be replaced with a kona 3 and aja doesn’t have a buy back program.”
Did you talk to AJA directly about that? I know you said your vendor is going to purchase it back, but I know that AJA has been very helpful to folks who have to switch out cards shortly after purchase.
The one big thing you’re gaining with the K3 is the 720-1080i cross convert which is huge.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I didn’t talk directly to AJA, just taking the word of the guy who is having his station replaced. Plus we had the machine for almost a year so I wouldn’t exactly say were switching the card out shortly after purchase. Thank goodness for apple protection or we’d be paying for a whole new system.
The biggest hassle is we don’t have any extra edit stations so he needs to jump on to whatever machine is available because he’s show airs new third quarter. It’s not a good time for his edit station to be out for several months.
But what do you do? Technology is always changing and there will always be issues. Somehow or another the work always gets done. Sometimes its just smoother than others.
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*UPDATE*
After my boss put up a big stink, Apple is sending us a Demo system until our system arrives…moody glasgow
smoke artist / editor
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