On Feb 19, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Don Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is banned now in Europe because of some electrical problem. To clarify, a European electrical safety standards was updated and the Mac Pro does not comply with the new standard on a couple of minor points. One is that they must now fit finger-guards to the INTERNAL fans. I think the other issue relates to surge-resistance on a couple of the ports, eg lightning-induced spikes coming into a USB or Thunderbolt port from an external device shouldn't cause damage, up to a certain level. Doing surge testing is like watching paint dry, until the device fails. I used to work on power supply systems for cellphone towers and we tested to the highest level our equipment allowed. The mountains of China, India and South Africa are unforgiving. My guess is that Apple already had an update in the works and were going to have the new model out before the changes took effect, but the project must have fallen behind schedule. IIRC Tim Cook said a new model is coming this year. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
