Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #44297
From: Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] The Mac Pro is dead
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:21:46 -0500
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>, <stephen@sv2studios.com>
3rd parties are flashing nVidia cards with mac firmware and they work except during boot up. the effort for them to support 480 / 580 /680 is pretty minimal. they couldn't even go for a fews days of an engineer's time to tweak the firmware for boot up ?

entirely possible this was a FCP X release - show nothing you're damned, do a lame update you're damned but at least it looks like something... not saying what that something is though :/

S


On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote:

> I have to say, that "incremental upgrade" is a "do not buy" at the price.
> That's a substantial downgrade from current shipping tech and missing
> internal and external SATA 6gb and Thunderbolt not mention old CPU tech.
> They should have dropped the price 25-40% if that's what they are calling an
> upgrade. Clearly, they wanted to use all the same parts and not even upgrade
> the motherboard firmware. That's a really, really lame "upgrade".
>
>> This MacPro could also just be a stopgap system. They might (or might
> not) roll out something better when Mountain Lion is released. They've done
> that in the past.
>

 
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