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Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] The Mac Pro is dead
From: Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:36:18 -0600
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On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Steve Oakley wrote:

> 3rd parties are flashing nVidia cards with mac firmware and they work =
except during boot up.

Following the conversations up here, I was getting the (probably =
mistaken) impression that after pre-installing the drivers that the =
Windows cards worked out of box, except you didn't get to see the boot =
screen; the eBay custom-flashed cards added the boot display hack.

> 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 ?

Given that third parties are flashing the cards, rather than offering an =
OS patch, I got the (again, perhaps mistaken) impression that =
"officially supporting" those cards required the third parties to update =
firmware to offer Mac versions, rather than rely completely on Apple.

But I'm speculating based on what I'm skimming over on this list. Can =
those who are running "Windows" cards on their Macs give us some =
explicit details of exactly what they had to do, and what they have to =
do without (like temp sensing in the power management - something else =
that comes up with the eBay flashed cards)?

Regardless, dismayed that Apple didn't at least add the Quadro 4000 to =
their Built To Order options.

 - Chris