Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4743374 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:13:07 +0200 Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so2937041wib.4 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:15:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=MRDXE+8X3Iq0j6cELMPJQWrP3MyUb2okCI5r9xIQ3A8=; b=aAOgfmM9l9VnW6i8z2M7cv97NVBrlcGi0vKcAMp5ItmQeh7MCUm1pAmGg39gEFsENu tTa3DQkcv3JTlMiqyi6K5j0fZDyPMPZ311xB4dPIIIJOA2zfJdPcXkFp1i3MmfAwMNl0 tlbbUUs4n5OusqVzRKSvhnBGwd9tEdtd3Tds99ZmGwkkxfYp6AZ5azNMz5yv8UbcsNcC JUuEDg+oodrlTB7VhLXgkf2E6UnltpqKIIVHPDHiqQa9lNk+ZXiK8YJMLmN8AI+JrCSc R2LOcTDVNiTuylZEIzdcBczFvj/XbNqICwf3Z6CbW0Az8QCdLKOcxOtZSagfNU791AJa E3Bg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.181.11.137 with SMTP id ei9mr24371302wid.21.1339456545768; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.33.68 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [76.94.181.188] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:15:45 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] The Mac Pro is dead From: Satya G Meka To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d043892d79a455c04c23a87c7 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQloUtth6YzU9/mcpkeRnW50vWLPbRAsg5c71oHHh7+21kP3ZXRYTyPbcFF0DRnde5LBJ1L8 --f46d043892d79a455c04c23a87c7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I've purchased a flashed GTX 470 a while ago from macvidcards. It worked fine with Lion for a while but the latest update 10.7.4 broke it and now the screen flickers and the OS frequently crashes. So, I've resorted to the stock graphics card for now. That's always the downside with unofficial parts/flashed components. OS updates are more likely to break them. Satya G Meka. On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Steve Oakley wrote: > 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. > > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to > --f46d043892d79a455c04c23a87c7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've purchased a flashed GTX 470 a while ago from macvidcards. It worke= d fine with Lion for a while but the latest update 10.7.4 broke it and now = the screen flickers and the OS frequently crashes. So, I've resorted to= the stock graphics card for now. That's always the downside with unoff= icial parts/flashed components. OS updates are more likely to break them.
Satya G Meka.

On Mo= n, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Steve Oakley <steveo@practicali.com>= ; wrote:
3rd parties are flashing nVidia cards with m= ac firmware and they work except during boot up. the effort for them to sup= port 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 miss= ing
> internal and external SATA 6gb and Thunderbolt not mention old CPU tec= h.
> 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 u= pgrade
> the motherboard firmware. That's a really, really lame "upgra= de".
>
>> This MacPro could also just be a stopgap system. They might (or mi= ght
> not) roll out something better when Mountain Lion is released. They= 9;ve done
> that in the past.
>


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