MP 6,1 Mac Pro's being auctioned off (Culver City, CA)

[th0masp]

Just a heads up that there is an upcoming auction on the 10th of April for the office gear of now defunct VFX studio Technicolor/The Mill in Culver City/California. I'm not even on the same continent but heard about it through my contacts and figure some of you lot might be interested and more suitably located.

There's a lot of gear including a bunch of 6,1 Trashcan style Mac Pro's.

Technicolor’s VFX, Editing, and Offices of The Mill

Live Webcast Auction By Order of the Assignment for

www.cagp.com

Just do yourself a favor and do not pick up one of the Herman Miller chairs no matter how cheap. These look like they have already been worn out during the dot-com crisis.

 

[splifingate]

*ponders* The wood furniture is really nice!

btw, that's a lot of Ultrium 5 Carts!

 

[avro707]

The Eizo screens look interesting- new in box. But the rest doesn’t interest me.

 

[mattspace]

The majority of the office chairs all through the shots are Humanscale Diffrient World chairs, for anyone interested.

 

[th0masp]

The majority of the office chairs all through the shots are Humanscale Diffrient World chairs, for anyone interested.

Cheers! Yeah I wanted to specifically warn about picking up one of the HM Aerons (the dark matte somewhat organic looking mesh-chairs): these are a revision that was phased out 20 years ago. You'd be buying a lot of mileage with one of these.

 

[splifingate]

It's almost embarrassing dissecting a carcass like this . . . partly why I don't go to estate sales any more.

 

[pip11]

The catalog shows 30+ MacPro6,1s, 8 iMac Pros, and 2 7,1s (one tower, one rack). It's 60 miles away from me, I'll keep an eye on the auction but probably won't bid unless there's some screaming deals.

 

[avro707]

Anywhere to see specs on the machines?

 

[penguinlust]

Anywhere to see specs on the machines?

The tower is a 16 core according to a sticker on it. Nothing on the rack machine other than it has the base MPX Radeon 580 module and appears to be otherwise bare bones in the interior shot. Not much to go by.

 

[avro707]

I think I will let them go. Only the Eizo screens are interesting but even those will probably be overpriced.

 

[Timpetus]

Seems like a lot of their computers are a bit older, though some of the PC towers are still fairly decent specs. If you can pick one up for $300-500 I'd consider that a steal for an i9 with plenty of ram and a decent video card.

 

[splifingate]

It's the shipping&handling to the opposite side of the Continent that causes me pause.

The NIB Cintiq, and the Canon kit, is particularly enticing ...

 

[pip11]

The 7,1s sold for $2500 and $2250, iMac Pros were all $600-700, and 6,1s were all $125-175 each (but in lots of 3 or 4). And of course that doesn't include the 18% fees, ~10% sales tax, and generally untested nature of everything.

 

[th0masp]

Seems like a lot of their computers are a bit older, though some of the PC towers are still fairly decent specs. If you can pick one up for $300-500 I'd consider that a steal for an i9 with plenty of ram and a decent video card.

Thought so too. So much for the whole argument you can read so often (not only in this forum) that the "pro's" are buying into all that highend stuff and don't even flinch at the eyewatering prices Apple & co are asking for - and swap the gear out quickly for the next hardware gen, too.

And here's a major VFX studio that was until very recently (apparently) running on pre-Covid-era desktops and HP's Mac Mini equivalent...

I guess it is possible though that they went all in on virtual machines on a server farm and Teradici or similar when the pandemic hit and abandoned buying workstations. And that those HP mini's were used as mere terminals.