lol what?
any more info on that? what components were blowing?
did they total the machines or was apple fixing them as they went along?
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any more info on that? what components were blowing?
did they total the machines or was apple fixing them as they went along?
Use that web thing and Bing for your questions. The Deadpool problems are widely reported - the trash can smoked under load.
But it was very efficient until the flames and smoke starting shooting out of the top....
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ok.. searched.
found one person saying the burned through 10 mac pros .. another saying they blew 10 D700s.
couldn't find anything about who/what/how was fixing them or if they were replacing the whole machines etc. (also didn't see anything about smoke and flames ; ) )
idk, just curious is all.
My understanding is that seeing it actually gave them some ideas for the final "Boss Battle" scenes, so not a complete loss.
Actually, it has been said before that Apple has people reading through forums like these.
Reading, but not listening.
I think a certain person on here is actually Tim Cook, and that he takes shots at people, lol.
Alas, there are no more Mac Pros. What we have now is the Mac Mini Pros. Apple wont rehash the real heroes (cMP) that allowed for the greatest flexibility and upgrades but you can keep adding more cables and items outside your Mac Mini Pro and gobble up even more desk real estate that the cMP. All kidding aside, I could tolerate the Mac Mini Pros if they were a bit more flexible. I don't need two vid cards but happy to have one powerful one and either another internal drive or ability to add some other type of card (audio perhaps).
Right with ya boss since 98. Don't have to get something this June but this year or I am gone to a Custom Windows Machine.
Go to creative cow they have the run down on both Deadpool(workflow on Adobe, and burned through 6 nMPs) As well as Whisky tango Foxtrot(which had a FCPX workflow) and had a significant amount of VFX and did not burn through any nMPs.
AFAIK, that is strictly speculation/wishful thinking. Apple claims( i.e. indirectly inferred from #5, #6 of its community support agreement ) it doesn't formally monitor its own discussion forums, so presumably non-Apple forums receive even less attention. It's possible Apple employees browse occasionally but I doubt it's part of their assigned duties. Also, my suspicion is both Apple Feedback and their rdar bug reporter provide more than enough work to keep Apple employees busy.
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The American Football Stadium of Michigan, Ann Arbor can hold roughly 120000 people. You take this amount of people multiplied by 8, - and you have the amount of members of this forum. About 65 Million visitors a year.
If Apple knows it or not, - MacRumors matters. Most people here dont have just one device.
As a business owner, - If I could know where 950.000 customers of my productline meet to discuss my products that I have designed, manufactured and sold to them - oh Baby - I Would be in high haven..
I wonder, how many MacRumors members are Apple shareholders or/developers. This Forum dude, this Forum IS Apple.
Right now we have 1 billion active Apple devices. Thats less than 0.1% of users on MacRumors.
so when a poll happens here and 200 people vote they don't like such&such computer, what percentage is that?
As I've seen it described by someone whose closeness to the issue I have no reason to doubt...
The D-series GPUs are effectively rebadged Radeons with extra VRAM. The problem is the Radeon design was never engineered to carry 6gb of VRAM, and as a result, when pushed hard enough for long enough they have an effective 100% fail rate due to overheating. This is inherent to the design - if your workflow kills your cards and you get warranty replacements, they will keep failing in exactly the same way.
What's most ironic about this is that the whole PR explanation of the 2013 design was a thermal chimney to make cooling more effective.
As an individual owner I initially didn't like the idea of having to buy extra everything, down to the keyboard and mouse. But now as we get close to 3 years I'm finding that I like it.
1. I use an ergonometric keyboard and mouse so I wouldn't use those components even if they supplied them.
2) Changing peripherals is as simple as plugging in the power cord and cable for the device. I have 2 Blu-Ray drives, 3 RAID disks, 6 USB3 disks for a total of 19 drives. I really don't want to spend the time installing things in a cabinet, e.g. changing disks for larger sizes, etc. I have infinite flexibility which a cabinet doesn't allow.
2) It pushed me to Promise Pegasus, which is a far better solution than internal drives both in capacity and speed. Expensive though.
3) What I really love is the form factor. I had graphics card failures both on my 2010 and late 2013 12 cpu systems. When the 2013 failed I just put it in a shopping bag and took it to the Apple store. My 2010 is a b$%$% to move. You can lift it, but if you are going any distance you have to wear gloves. It's still sitting here under my desk, needing to be sold, since I keep putting off selling due to the hassle of packaging. I have to find someone who will package and ship it. For the 2013 however since I could keep the box as it is small, when I sell all I have to do is pop it into it's original container, put it in a shopping bag, and go to UPS.
1. I use an ergonometric keyboard and mouse so I wouldn't use those components even if they supplied them.
2) Changing peripherals is as simple as plugging in the power cord and cable for the device. I have 2 Blu-Ray drives, 3 RAID disks, 6 USB3 disks for a total of 19 drives. I really don't want to spend the time installing things in a cabinet, e.g. changing disks for larger sizes, etc. I have infinite flexibility which a cabinet doesn't allow.
2) It pushed me to Promise Pegasus, which is a far better solution than internal drives both in capacity and speed. Expensive though.
3) What I really love is the form factor. I had graphics card failures both on my 2010 and late 2013 12 cpu systems. When the 2013 failed I just put it in a shopping bag and took it to the Apple store. My 2010 is a b$%$% to move. You can lift it, but if you are going any distance you have to wear gloves. It's still sitting here under my desk, needing to be sold, since I keep putting off selling due to the hassle of packaging. I have to find someone who will package and ship it. For the 2013 however since I could keep the box as it is small, when I sell all I have to do is pop it into it's original container, put it in a shopping bag, and go to UPS.
I can agree with you on everything else you said except for this. While, yes, the cMPs are 40+ lbs, I could order a new video card from Amazon and have it within two days and have it installed that day. Three day turnaround. Plus, I can upgrade the video card and it'll still be cheaper then for the nMP. On the nMP, I have to drive 25 miles to the Apple Store have it diagnosed and parts replaced. The turn around time is a minimum of 3-5 days, plus the wait time for said appointment. The parts? $300 per video card on the nMP plus the labor charge from Apple if you don't have AppleCare. cMP? $150 gets you a halfway decent video card.
I know all this because this has literally been my life this week. I've been having graphical tearing and displays going dark on my nMP with D300s. I took it in to Apple and both video cards (plus the logic board) need replacing and it comes to almost $1000 in parts. This is the machine's second GPU related repair in the 15 months I've owned it. The most intensive thing I have it doing it pushing FCPX to a 4K/60Hz monitor (which is what it was built to do) and editing 4K footage. Nothing outside of this computers job description, and it has failed twice already. At the same time, I've been looking to upgrade the video card in my 4,1. $150-$200 would get me a respectable (PC) card for it. To add insult to injury, the PSU in my 4,1 flatlined this week so I am left computer-less (except for my iPad) and have no way to get work done. It'll take at least a week to get my 4,1 back in service, wether I do the repair or pay an AASP $400 to do it (Apple's part pricing is ridiculous).
With the nMP it took 4 days to get an appointment with Apple, and an hour's worth of driving (there and back), 30 mins at the Genius Bar, not to mention the 3-5 day minimum turn around time, the one hour's worth driving again, and probably 15-30 mins for them to get a tech to get the machine, bring it to me and leave the store. Whereas with the cMP, I could have done the repair myself and gotten the parts within 2 days with Amazon Prime. No toting to the store required.
I love my nMP, but I don't see it lasting the 7-10 years like the last Mac Pro's. They might last as long as the liquid cooled G5s.
I feel for you. That seems painfully and would not want that to happen to anyone.