Gadgetory

so this is my Mac Pro and the reason it's here and not on my desk is because it's broken as you can tell I'm very pleased about that basically I started having some video issues as you guys know if you've seen my setup video or at least episode one you know that I push a lot of pixels out of this little beast it's been video editing since its birth since it got here I don't know if that has to do with it specifically or if it's just a defect but what I'm getting now is a lot of video artifacting it's basically a garbled mess somewhere within your video feed that exists on your display now generally that means there's something wrong with your graphics card well in this case possibly both graphics cards because it has dual D 700s this is a very expensive system so that brings me to the next part it is covered under Apple Care warranty this system is close to ten thousand dollars now before you write your comment about how crazy that is and obscene just remember that I use this for work on a daily basis it's produced hundreds of videos I'm looking at it right now like I'm proud of it or something but yes it's produced hundreds of videos and saving time is money in this business yes you could build a PC similar to this one similar in functionality if you wanted to nonetheless I need to get this thing fixed so it can go back to my desk and it can go back to editing videos which is essentially what it loves to do most I just kissed my computer anyways it's covered under Apple care as I said before and that's important because Apple care and this is like 250 or 300 bucks and the system is worth a lot more money than that if this wasn't covered under Apple care it would cost me quite a bit of money to be exact they've ordered in a new logic board which is four hundred and twenty three dollars two new graphics cards obviously since I said this has dual be 700 this is just to be sure they've got it covered those are three hundred and ten dollars each they ordered in a new dim of memory 16 gigabytes and lastly the labor charge is on this order sheet as well the total lump sum figure for this repairs about fourteen hundred dollars if it weren't covered under Apple Care ouch yes I've used it hard now the next point of this video since it is going in for repairs it got me a little bit concerned about privacy as you know I'm a fairly public figure well you know Who I am and I make videos about products sometimes I talk about Apple sometimes I make videos like this and of course this thing has a lot of personal information on it that I think should be protected so what I'm going to do before I bring this in for that physical repair is I'm going to remove SSD and all of my personal information that goes with it and it's actually not too difficult to do that's why I have this Torx t8 screwdriver right here there is some good documentation online as well from Apple themselves about how to remove the SSD but I'm going to show you here just for the sake of it start by lifting this up that's a beautiful sound and then over here you can see where it's located this is the SSD it's tiny as you can tell and it's a single Torx t8 screw to remove it remove this screw here and then simply lift it out on the place where it's secured and connected to the logic board now some of you might be thinking how will they fix your device if you've taken out the SSD and they can't test it to see if the repair work they can actually boot these things off of external drives and do all the testing necessary they don't need this this internal drive or my personal formation in order to check if the repair has worked and they're no longer seeing video artifacting but for me it's worthwhile for one screw and an easy removal why not take the drive out and not have to worry about them going through my stuff God knows what's on there so I felt like this was an important thing to share with you guys for various reasons obviously my main editing machine is going to be out of commission for a little while but also since you come to me for product information and whatnot I thought why not report on something that's happened to me as a regular product user over the extended life cycle of a very expensive computer product this is real reporting right here and if anyone else runs into this issue now they have a video at least talking about it because I found it kind of hard to track down videos like this one I think that's probably because there aren't that many Mac pros out there comparative to more consumer facing products anyway guys that wraps up this video it is time to put this top back on the Mac Pro bring it in to the Apple store and say goodbye for a little while I'll be thinking about you I hope you guys are thinking about the Mac Pro as well how many videos have come through this thing videos that you guys have enjoyed if you guys enjoyed this content make sure to leave a thumbs up down below thanks as always for watching and I will catch you on the next episode very soon later guys