Could you post a Link? all I can see on ebay is a lot of money and the same in shipping (I'm in NZ)
Go directly to the ipowerresale website - they have been consistently cheaper directly from the company than eBay.Whoa! thanks for that, I'll just go and sell the wife...
MacBook Air 11" late 2010 1.4Ghz intel Core Duo, 2 Gb RAM, NVidia GeFORCE 320M 256MB, 60GB SSD.And my little old 11" MacBook Air, I've just got Monterey via OCLP on today, Sonoma next...
Go directly to the ipowerresale website - they have been consistently cheaper directly from the company than eBay.
same place has used machines same spec at US$1900.Yes, thanks for that, no bids on the wife yet...
I follow along with all this, but why does my 27" iMac 11,1 (Late 2009) run near-perfect with Sonoma + metal GPU, and its CPU has no AVX support?Monterey is the last macOS release that runs acceptably in a production environment with a MacPro5,1. Ventura and Sonoma are deeply dependent on AVX2 and MacPro5,1 Xeons do not support AVX or AVX2.
People will say that everything works with Ventura/Sonoma + OCLP + MacPro5,1, but when you really start to push it, you have KPs all over. I don't doubt that for some office/internet workflows sometimes everything is perfect, but the moment that you start to need hardware compression/decompression or heavy usage of shaders, things fail and hard.
Maybe sometime in the future all the issues related to the missing AVX/AVX2 support will be fully patched and solved, but today is not this day.
because you are not doing any of the things that trigger problems ?I follow along with all this, but why does my 27" iMac 11,1 (Late 2009) run near-perfect with Sonoma + metal GPU, and its CPU has no AVX support?
I'm using them in the same way. Not discounting your theory, but is there a technical reason?because you are not doing any of the things that trigger problems ?
As @macguru9999 said - you are not doing anything to trigger the AVX/AVX2 issues.I'm using them in the same way. Not discounting your theory, but is there a technical reason?
The conventional wisdom around here is:
A) "Don't upgrade a Mac Pro 5,1 to Ventura/Sonoma - no AVX/AVX2 means you're playing with fire"
B) "My 2009 iMac and/or 2008 MacBook Air runs like a dream on Sonoma"
What am I missing?
Helpful, thanks!As @macguru9999 said - you are not doing anything to trigger the AVX/AVX2 issues.
The technical reason is newer software, including Sonoma itself, is increasingly being compiled with AVX/AVX2 instructions and will not run without support for AVX/AVX2.
I was running my cMP5,1 fine with Sonoma but could not view copy protected videos with my Vega 56. They would work with my RX580. This was due to issues with the patched graphics drivers.
If Sonoma works for your work flow great. "Conventional" wisdom is driven by many who use their cMP5,1 for work flows that have software which has migrated to AVX/AVX2 being required so they need to stay on Monterey. There decision point for what to do next comes this fall when support for Monterey will be dropped by Apple.
I reckon this is right. Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to 5,1 Sonoma, 8 cores RX590 8gb - buttery smooth and -As @macguru9999 said - you are not doing anything to trigger the AVX/AVX2 issues.
Thank you, I'm now very happy.
same place has used machines same spec at US$1900.
They're still in the Canadian refurb store. CAD$2079 for that system, which is just over USD$1500, AND you'd be eligible for Apple Care. Checking the US refurb store, and they're available, and just $1609.i just bought an apple refurb 13" macbook pro, M2, 24G/1TB from these guys for about $1800...
...it's too bad because the refurb M2s had just disappeared from apple's refurb store.
They're still in the Canadian refurb store. CAD$2079 for that system, which is just over USD$1500, AND you'd be eligible for Apple Care. Checking the US refurb store, and they're available, and just $1609.
Maybe return the $1800 one, pick up one up from Apple, and use the savings to pay for Apple Care.