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[Tom Sefton] “I Suppose when you put it like that it doesn’t make too much sense really.”
Some hardware makes sense to show at a developer conference. You could argue the nMP was to get everyone on board with GPU acceleration.
[Tom Sefton] “Is it September when hardware is announced usually then?”
IMHO, *the* place to announce a new pro computer would be NAB, but of course I am biased. I suspect that we’ll see future hardware announcements when they’re good and ready to announce, rather than on any kind of predictable schedule.
Computers hardware might just not be that special anymore.
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And rubbing some salt in the wound…
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I think it’s hilarious that he rebuilt the old MacPro.
I don’t think Apple needs any help in deciding what parts are available for a computer.
It would make ‘more sense’ for Apple to license an OS to a hardware partner, but that’s not going to happen either.
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I wish Apple would do that. I would rather build a custom desktop then wait for another expensive trash can model.
Tetris is my favorite video game unless tracks are involved.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I don’t think Apple needs any help in deciding what parts are available for a computer.”
Oh, I don’t know. It would be nice if there didn’t melt down.
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I don’t know what you mean, so I googled it.
Didn’t find anything except for old MacPros and old MBP batteries (of the expanding variety). Seems like if it was such a wide problem, people would be up in arms about it.
Did yours melt?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Didn’t find anything”
The Deadpool guys burnt through about 10 of them. The GPUs had heat problems. I asked AMD about that at NAB and they told me that had no control over how Apple integrated the chips into the Mac Pros.
A couple of references:
https://lfhd.net/2016/02/15/premiere-pro-weapon-of-choice-for-deadpool/
https://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/film-and-video-editing/editing-deadpool-and-hail-caesar-in-premiere-pro/
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Sounds like the problem has been identified and fixed?
“Deadpool” production burning out MacPros seems almost too serendipitous.
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“Apple has determined that graphics cards in some late 2013 Mac Pros, manufactured between February 8, 2015 and April 11, 2015, may cause distorted video, no video, system instability, freezing, restarts, shut downs, or may prevent system start up.”
Sounds like a relatively small run of bad cards.
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