Erik Mickelson
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Turn OFF open CL acceleration. It makes the Macbooks unstable. You are probably overheating too, but I was told by Apple techs that the MacBook Pros are designed to overheat and eventually just die on set while producers and directors are watching 🙂 “No, it’s operating as designed, it’s within spec”. Over 200^ F – ouch that’s hot!
At that temp the motherboard will probably fry 1 day after Apple care expires. Good luck!
CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.4, FCPStudio 3, Adobe CS6. QT 7
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Your safest bet is probably to stay with a MacPro then…
or find a computer nerd to build you Hack, just make sure they are using parts from a verified Vanilla build. A real PC…maybe not LOTS of stuff to go wrong if you don’t know how to administer your system.It is actually harder/takes longer to build/install Windows than it is to make a Hack.
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You forgot about a “hackintosh”.
Faster than anything currently available from Apple, fully supported hardware(same stuff Apple uses). Easy “Vanilla” installs. Ability to have 12 TB raid zero at 500MB sec plus any video card you choose. Fully upgradeable. Virtually no minus’.
Just make sure to buy confirmed build parts and you should be good to go in about an hour. Under $1000 would still be a really nice upgradeable system. = usually ugly.CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.4, FCPStudio 3, Adobe CS6. QT 7
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Also know that MacBook Pros overheat by design. When they do, and the do to a lot of After Effects users, the CPU goes into “thermal protection” mode. The CPU shuts down the hyper-threaded cores and throttles back the CPU speed to cool itself down, saving itself from melting. My current Macbook Pro 2011 17″ goes into thermal protection all the time and crashes AE and Premiere Pro.
Apple says that the machine is operating fine and as expected. My temps go above 200 F all the time and typically stay around 194 f when working in PPro and AE. Apple has tested and documented this themselves and they say it is operating how they designed it. Cuda is a joke on my machine (ATI, Open CL supported). I did demo FCPX on my machine and it flew. Go figure and YMMV. These machines will fry themselves out at about the three year and one day mark, just after Apple Care is done.
I do mostly mograph and docs and try to stay native effects.
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Nope, not happening on my mac.
I stopped the render after 15 minutes. Time remaining was over 7 hours. Obviously there is zero Open CL support(cannot select GPU option). Specs are in my sig.
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Looks like all my graphics are a bit soft in CS6. The supers that I use are PSD files that are the same for all projects. My CS6 renders look soft and also there is a gamma shift. My renders are darker for the same projects. Strange things happening in Premiere Pro land for sure. Let’s hope Adobe gets this mess fixed. Soon.
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Can you even install Lion on the Mac 1,1? I thought Apple crippled the EFI/bootloader for that one, only 32 bit?
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Magma and Sonnet have just what you need!
https://www.magma.com/thunderbolt.asp
https://store1.sonnettech.com/index.php?cPath=139_141Sure you can! It’s only $1000 for the box and $50 for each cable that you need. Oh, plus whatever graphics card you choose. Might be a good option for a mobile mac.
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I just got a script that has a bunch of supers on it. I’ll probably have it done by Thursday. I’ll do a test in CS6 and CS5.
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Nice portfolio Greg. Really nice.
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