Ask the mac ati division on the price differential for cards with the same chipset.
I know it'll be higher, simply to pay for the cost of having a mac division... but still... at a certain point... eh...
also, Apple is definently going to go PCI-E. The question is when.. next year is most likely. Simply because the graphics cards are going PCI-E... and it could very well make the motherboards cheaper. I think apple uses lots of expensive 6 layer boards.. and those pcix slots aren't dirt-cheap to implement either...
the mac community is more than ready for a graphics benchmarking software package. when will one exist, I wonder... any insights into this?
The Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special edition is a Mac exclusive card. It looks to be based off of the same board design used with the OEM Radeon 9800 Pro that came with the G5s.
The Mac Radeon 9200 PCI card doesn't look to have an equivalent card in ATI's PCI 9200 section (DVI, SVideo, VGA).
ATI demoed a G5 running an X800 with an 23" ADC Cinema Display and a 30" DVI Cinema Display at the Digital Life expo back in October. That means they have created an X800 with an ADC and a dual link DVI connector. Of course, no news on a release date... but I doubt you'll see that same card available as a PC model.
OK, search on google for alexander central school, then email one of the teachers and ask about Will Taylor, secondly, yes i have a fucked up mind but fuck off, at least i am only 18 and not 45, and atleast i dont have have a gut and a wife that wont give me any, and a dell for a computer, (man did you get riped off)
SO you know what fuck off and get off this web site, wtf you've been here since 1999, holy shit you really have no LIFE, not that you know anything about that, damn english
Dude, why in the world do you have to create so many posts? Can't you just get your point across in one post?
Seriously though, I don't think you have 3.8 or 3.9 GPA considering your spelling errors and grammatical errors (I know mine are not perfect, so don't even bother editing out my post).
Regardless, you sound like a genius but then why is it that all your questions above and comments are pure illogical and doesn't not make any sense?
Seriously, you certainly don't sound the guy who have accomplished so much in your lifetime and I am having a hard believing anything you say. You would bet that a guy with 3.8GPA would have a bit more mind to do a serach on AMD 3000+ review on AnandTech, but it doesn't seem that way.
Your life must be really screwed since you are having so much fun arguing with me. It's alright man, I guess I understand you now. Your life sucks and you want someone to take care of you. What, no girlfriend either...parents abandoned you...
Whatever, stop lying about your achievements. Dumbass...
Ok Dee, first of all I would like to say that I got about $20,000 worth of scholarships and I was the solitarian but got cheated out of the valedictorian because I took calc 1 and the valedictorian did not and beat me by 2 hundredths of a point, Alexander central school look on google, secondly, that was for my roommates Pc, which is a piece of crap and lags in lan games, Thirdly I am the proud owner of a 3500-amd 64, 1 gig of ram, 9600 xt ultra, DVD burner, cd-rw, and a dell ultra sharp 17" which is a nice motherfucker, Finally my classes end next week and no I will not have a 4.0 that is almost impossible if you are going for a real degree, the only way you could get a 4.0 is in liberal arts (you know the one you had at a junior college) which is a useless and an easy degree, I will probably have a 3.8 or 3.9 something b/c I think I got a B+ in "the history of Ireland" and a B+ in ea235 which is a engineering coarse, and on a side note I am going for my aerospace engineering degree so put that in your pipe and smoke it, and get off your soap box, oh yeah that’s right You don’t bathe!
Oh my God! Do you really have to have four posts to get your point across. $150.00 GPUs are old news. What's the point of testing them? If 6800 vanilla gets 40FPS in certain games at 1600x1200 with AA and AF turned on, everyone should know that a card half of 6800 vanilla's cost would results in unplayable scenarios for latest games.
Why don't you invest in Dell since it seems like you don't have a job, aren't willing to work hard and giving unnecessary excuses for your software piracy addiction?
Secondly, don't recommend stupid article ideas to Anand and considering that you are nothing but a low-life, you should keep it to yourself.
If only you bothered to do a bit of searching on the site.
Seems like all your screws are a bit loose - might want to get them tightened.
You are a low-life, you fucking bastard. You are not the only one who goes to college, there are thousands of others. How can they afford stuff that you can't? Who are you to generalize that majority of college goes can't afford high-end GPUs and CPUs?
Just because you didn't get any scholorships, your GPA is 1.5 and nobody likes you doesn't mean all college goers have the same problems?
Listen kid, stop spamming this site. Get lost you low life excuse kiddie.
Sorry for my spelling error infested blog above-for an edited version read below>>>
Hey anand, How about we benchmark more $150 gpus, seeing as how a huge gaming audience is between 18-22 therefore going to college and unable to afford such luxuries as $500 gpus. Also lets test how 3000-939 pin amd, goes against the other cpus of higher and lower price range,
Hey anand, How about we benchmark more $150 gpus, seeing as how a huge gaming audiance is between 18-22 therefore going to college and unable to afford such luggerises as $500 gpus. Also lets test how 3000-939pin amd, goes against the other cpus of higher and lower price range,
Ok Dee, if you want to get technical you have a number of fragments, use of passive voice, use of first person and, multiple there grammar and spelling errors.
Ok Dee, if you want to get technical you have a number of fragments, use of passive voice, use of first person and, multiple there grammar and spelling errors.
#15: I guess the questions should be: are you 15 or 30? Are you smart or dumb? Are you ignorant or do you lack knowledge? Are you making any sense or not? Did you wife divorce you yet or not?
BTW, these are all rhetorical questions. Rhetorical questions are questions that don't require an answer (just saving you some time looking up the definition on dictionary.com).
I just made fun of you, did you liked that or not?
PCIe is definitely a "when, not if" thing. (just read about Core Image, you'll see what I mean: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/core.html) If you could find out when, that would be nice.
Oh, Anand, are you going to "re-review" your G5 when Tiger comes out? There's enough new stuff (Spotlight, Core Image, etc.) that it should make it interesting.
#10, maybe I'm misinterpreting #1 here, but I read "will ATI ever produce a Mac-specific card?" to mean "will there ever be an ATI card available for the Mac that is NOT available for the PC?". In this light, I think my questions make sense. I take "Mac-specific" to mean "Mac-exclusive", since *every* Mac video card has to be "Mac-specific" in some sense, because you can't just buy a PC Radeon or GeForce and put it in a Mac.
In the past (well, since Macs have had a PCI/AGP bus at least), all ATI/NVIDIA video cards for the Mac have simply been PC video cards with a different BIOS and other very slight changes. Many times it has been possible to flash update a Mac video card to a PC video card (not very smart since the Mac cards are always much more rare and expensive). I really wouldn't expect that situation to change since the Mac market is so much smaller compared to the PC market. ATI and NVIDIA will always make their cards for the PC first, and then adapt them to the Mac.
Of course Apple also buys GPU chips and integrates them into their iMacs/eMacs/Powerbooks/etc (i.e. non-discrete video solutions). I don't see this as anything different from how other integrated systems vendors operate, so I'm not really discussing this here. I'm talking about the discrete graphics card market.
I asked about the Xbox2 chip in particular since the Xbox will be using an IBM chip for its CPU, much like the PowerPC (Xbox2 dev kits are G5's with 9800's).
I'm a PC user (3ds max, not available on mac), but am definately a Mac fanatic. My workflow depends heavily on the graphics card. The harder working the card, the more it seems like I'm sculpting art, and less like "modeling polygons". If it's not art, it's not fun. Which is why I use 3ds Max and PC's with big ol' FireGL workstation cards. My questions for ATI
1) Is a honkin FireGL card in the pipeline for Macs? I'll switch to Cinema 4D and OS X, but I need a card that going to effortlessly refresh my 3D scenes.
2) Apple and PCIe. Not if, but when? I'm sure they can't answer that and not get in trouble by Apple, but push a little, eh?
3) FireGL with more than 256mb of RAM. Is it ever going to happen? Has it already happened?
One of the things I'd like to know more about is how exactly are 3D graphics rendered on the Mac platform compared to Windows PCs? Macs seem to get more out of video cards, at least based on minimum/recommended video setups for new games. Is there a significant difference in APIs? Does OS X have an equivelent to GL and Direct 3D? Are the graphics requirements for Macs less than the PC simply because Macs lack the API functionality for advanced graphic features for games?
I'm not a Mac user, more of a curious PC user. Hopefully I'm not alone in regard to my pondering.
hey, congrats on the mac office trip. It's good to see you getting more well-rounded.
how about some video card overclocking? I'd love to see how much head room these things have.... no rush though, I won't be able to afford one of these new fangled cards for a couple years
1) Will the Mac ever see an All-In-Wonder product?"
>>> #1 asked if ATI would ever produce a Mac-specific card - and an All-in-Wonder falls under that possible category. His question already covers your question.
You wrote: "2) Will the next-gen ATI chip that powers the Xbox2 be available for the Mac?"
>>> Again, redundant question.
You wrote: "As for #1's #4: Why would ATI ever produce a Mac-specific card? They certainly wouldn't produce a Mac-specific GPU at any rate."
>>> You seem to ask the very question that you try to answer - you indicate you think it's not something ATI would do but you ask if they will make very specific products.
I'm not sure I'm getting what you're trying to say here.
Ok heres the deal, I am a long time Readon user (powercolor all the way) but i neeed a new Gpu, now from what i have been reading Reodon slows a bit with Doom 3 ,however it does well in
halflife 2, will new video games run off of the doom 3 engine or will they run off of the half life engine,(i will be staying w/ the agp slot) also does anyone know anything about the advancement of the glaicer engine for hitman-blood money.
oh and on a side note, I am definetly not looking at any cutting edge. //////////
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The "GPU/memory bandwidth scaling on a card per card basis as well to find out where the limitations with the various GPUs lie" sounds migthy interesting.
For the Mac questions, here's a couple:
1. Will current-gen (ie. X800, i'm not even talking about X850) ATI GPUs ever be made for the Mac?
2. Do they have any insights into Apple's plans for PCIe?
3. Any details on the X1800 (or whatever it's gonna be called)?
4. Will ATI ever create Mac-specific cards?
5. What about FireGL cards?
6. Not really Mac-related, but important- any major changes in the Linux drivers? (ie up-to-date performance, actual installer)
I'm not sure if there are FireGL cards already (I don't think there are), so correct me if I'm wrong about anything.
Keep up the work on the HL2 article, I'm looking forward to it! Hopefully you'll test CPUs down to a P4 1.6Ghz (Willamette s468), since that's what I'm running. :(
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methodical - Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - link
Ask the mac ati division on the price differential for cards with the same chipset.I know it'll be higher, simply to pay for the cost of having a mac division... but still... at a certain point... eh...
also, Apple is definently going to go PCI-E. The question is when.. next year is most likely. Simply because the graphics cards are going PCI-E... and it could very well make the motherboards cheaper. I think apple uses lots of expensive 6 layer boards.. and those pcix slots aren't dirt-cheap to implement either...
the mac community is more than ready for a graphics benchmarking software package. when will one exist, I wonder... any insights into this?
a2daj - Monday, December 13, 2004 - link
The Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special edition is a Mac exclusive card. It looks to be based off of the same board design used with the OEM Radeon 9800 Pro that came with the G5s.The Mac Radeon 9200 PCI card doesn't look to have an equivalent card in ATI's PCI 9200 section (DVI, SVideo, VGA).
ATI demoed a G5 running an X800 with an 23" ADC Cinema Display and a 30" DVI Cinema Display at the Digital Life expo back in October. That means they have created an X800 with an ADC and a dual link DVI connector. Of course, no news on a release date... but I doubt you'll see that same card available as a PC model.
The_Necromacer - Monday, December 13, 2004 - link
OK, search on google for alexander central school, then email one of the teachers and ask about Will Taylor, secondly, yes i have a fucked up mind but fuck off, at least i am only 18 and not 45, and atleast i dont have have a gut and a wife that wont give me any, and a dell for a computer, (man did you get riped off)SO you know what fuck off and get off this web site, wtf you've been here since 1999, holy shit you really have no LIFE, not that you know anything about that, damn english
Dee - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Dude, why in the world do you have to create so many posts? Can't you just get your point across in one post?Seriously though, I don't think you have 3.8 or 3.9 GPA considering your spelling errors and grammatical errors (I know mine are not perfect, so don't even bother editing out my post).
Regardless, you sound like a genius but then why is it that all your questions above and comments are pure illogical and doesn't not make any sense?
Seriously, you certainly don't sound the guy who have accomplished so much in your lifetime and I am having a hard believing anything you say. You would bet that a guy with 3.8GPA would have a bit more mind to do a serach on AMD 3000+ review on AnandTech, but it doesn't seem that way.
Your life must be really screwed since you are having so much fun arguing with me. It's alright man, I guess I understand you now. Your life sucks and you want someone to take care of you. What, no girlfriend either...parents abandoned you...
Whatever, stop lying about your achievements. Dumbass...
The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Therefore no soap box for you to stand on.The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Ok Dee, first of all I would like to say that I got about $20,000 worth of scholarships and I was the solitarian but got cheated out of the valedictorian because I took calc 1 and the valedictorian did not and beat me by 2 hundredths of a point, Alexander central school look on google, secondly, that was for my roommates Pc, which is a piece of crap and lags in lan games, Thirdly I am the proud owner of a 3500-amd 64, 1 gig of ram, 9600 xt ultra, DVD burner, cd-rw, and a dell ultra sharp 17" which is a nice motherfucker, Finally my classes end next week and no I will not have a 4.0 that is almost impossible if you are going for a real degree, the only way you could get a 4.0 is in liberal arts (you know the one you had at a junior college) which is a useless and an easy degree, I will probably have a 3.8 or 3.9 something b/c I think I got a B+ in "the history of Ireland" and a B+ in ea235 which is a engineering coarse, and on a side note I am going for my aerospace engineering degree so put that in your pipe and smoke it, and get off your soap box, oh yeah that’s right You don’t bathe!Dee - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Oh my God! Do you really have to have four posts to get your point across. $150.00 GPUs are old news. What's the point of testing them? If 6800 vanilla gets 40FPS in certain games at 1600x1200 with AA and AF turned on, everyone should know that a card half of 6800 vanilla's cost would results in unplayable scenarios for latest games.Why don't you invest in Dell since it seems like you don't have a job, aren't willing to work hard and giving unnecessary excuses for your software piracy addiction?
Secondly, don't recommend stupid article ideas to Anand and considering that you are nothing but a low-life, you should keep it to yourself.
Also, you idiot, here's the article on AMD 3000+:
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=22...
If only you bothered to do a bit of searching on the site.
Seems like all your screws are a bit loose - might want to get them tightened.
You are a low-life, you fucking bastard. You are not the only one who goes to college, there are thousands of others. How can they afford stuff that you can't? Who are you to generalize that majority of college goes can't afford high-end GPUs and CPUs?
Just because you didn't get any scholorships, your GPA is 1.5 and nobody likes you doesn't mean all college goers have the same problems?
Listen kid, stop spamming this site. Get lost you low life excuse kiddie.
The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Dammnit I cant spell anying right.The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Sorry for my spelling error infested blog above-for an edited version read below>>>Hey anand, How about we benchmark more $150 gpus, seeing as how a huge gaming audience is between 18-22 therefore going to college and unable to afford such luxuries as $500 gpus. Also lets test how 3000-939 pin amd, goes against the other cpus of higher and lower price range,
The cheap bum-a.k.a__---The_Necromancer
The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
Hey anand, How about we benchmark more $150 gpus, seeing as how a huge gaming audiance is between 18-22 therefore going to college and unable to afford such luggerises as $500 gpus. Also lets test how 3000-939pin amd, goes against the other cpus of higher and lower price range,The cheap bum-aka__---The_Necromancer
The_Necromancer - Sunday, December 12, 2004 - link
ok, first just b/c i pirate software does not make me "low life" it is hard to but adobe software when you are attending collegeUB bulls, bitches
The_Necromancer
crtfanboy - Saturday, December 11, 2004 - link
wow, talk about service, thanks for that video card overclocking articlenow, about those stress-coping benchmarks... I think the exchange above is a pretty good place to start
personally, I had to take about 12 ounces of gin to get over it
Dee - Friday, December 10, 2004 - link
#25: Ohhhh, so you did you pass your high school, but still doesn't change the fact that you are a low life.Chao! Bas****
The_Necromancer - Friday, December 10, 2004 - link
Ok Dee, if you want to get technical you have a number of fragments, use of passive voice, use of first person and, multiple there grammar and spelling errors.The_Necromancer
The_Necromancer - Friday, December 10, 2004 - link
Ok Dee, if you want to get technical you have a number of fragments, use of passive voice, use of first person and, multiple there grammar and spelling errors.The_Necromancer
Dee - Friday, December 10, 2004 - link
#22: My previous comments were directed towards you. And no, I did not fail kindergarten, but it looks like you did.It's Kindergarten, not Kindergarden.
Are you plain stupid or retarded? Wait...don't answer that. I think we all know the answer to that.
Asshole...
The_Necromancer - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
Or maybe you should take a math class did you fail kindergarden or are you just bloody retarded.The_Necromancer - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
was that directed at me or #15b/c #15 is wbwither not me so before you go writing make sure you can read properly,
oh and by the way i use www.m-w.com
Dee - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
#15: I guess the questions should be: are you 15 or 30? Are you smart or dumb? Are you ignorant or do you lack knowledge? Are you making any sense or not? Did you wife divorce you yet or not?BTW, these are all rhetorical questions. Rhetorical questions are questions that don't require an answer (just saving you some time looking up the definition on dictionary.com).
I just made fun of you, did you liked that or not?
Haha, what a loser!
The_Necromancer - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
Hey, can you play demanding games like doom 3 or half-life 2 w/ a 25m/s response monitor time or will they be laggy?Ed - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
I know the feeling about friday. The last day of class was tuesday, and it feels like the weekend now.Caveman - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
Uhm... Where's the ASUS A8N Review??? I'd think this is the "hottest" story right now....The_Necromancer - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
Hey Dee, which do you prefer Intel or Amd, Radeon or nvidia, Mac or PcRamius - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
Questions, questions:I heard a rumor that ATI is going to completely rewrite their OS X OpenGL implementation, is that true?
ATI has shown off (http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/14/ati/index.... a Mac X800 card, although they haven't made any announcements. What's the timetable for this?
PCIe is definitely a "when, not if" thing. (just read about Core Image, you'll see what I mean: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/core.html) If you could find out when, that would be nice.
Oh, Anand, are you going to "re-review" your G5 when Tiger comes out? There's enough new stuff (Spotlight, Core Image, etc.) that it should make it interesting.
wbwither - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
#10, maybe I'm misinterpreting #1 here, but I read "will ATI ever produce a Mac-specific card?" to mean "will there ever be an ATI card available for the Mac that is NOT available for the PC?". In this light, I think my questions make sense. I take "Mac-specific" to mean "Mac-exclusive", since *every* Mac video card has to be "Mac-specific" in some sense, because you can't just buy a PC Radeon or GeForce and put it in a Mac.In the past (well, since Macs have had a PCI/AGP bus at least), all ATI/NVIDIA video cards for the Mac have simply been PC video cards with a different BIOS and other very slight changes. Many times it has been possible to flash update a Mac video card to a PC video card (not very smart since the Mac cards are always much more rare and expensive). I really wouldn't expect that situation to change since the Mac market is so much smaller compared to the PC market. ATI and NVIDIA will always make their cards for the PC first, and then adapt them to the Mac.
Of course Apple also buys GPU chips and integrates them into their iMacs/eMacs/Powerbooks/etc (i.e. non-discrete video solutions). I don't see this as anything different from how other integrated systems vendors operate, so I'm not really discussing this here. I'm talking about the discrete graphics card market.
I asked about the Xbox2 chip in particular since the Xbox will be using an IBM chip for its CPU, much like the PowerPC (Xbox2 dev kits are G5's with 9800's).
afcombatcrayola - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
I'm a PC user (3ds max, not available on mac), but am definately a Mac fanatic. My workflow depends heavily on the graphics card. The harder working the card, the more it seems like I'm sculpting art, and less like "modeling polygons". If it's not art, it's not fun. Which is why I use 3ds Max and PC's with big ol' FireGL workstation cards. My questions for ATI1) Is a honkin FireGL card in the pipeline for Macs? I'll switch to Cinema 4D and OS X, but I need a card that going to effortlessly refresh my 3D scenes.
2) Apple and PCIe. Not if, but when? I'm sure they can't answer that and not get in trouble by Apple, but push a little, eh?
3) FireGL with more than 256mb of RAM. Is it ever going to happen? Has it already happened?
-Scottie
Big_Ed_Mustafa - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
One of the things I'd like to know more about is how exactly are 3D graphics rendered on the Mac platform compared to Windows PCs? Macs seem to get more out of video cards, at least based on minimum/recommended video setups for new games. Is there a significant difference in APIs? Does OS X have an equivelent to GL and Direct 3D? Are the graphics requirements for Macs less than the PC simply because Macs lack the API functionality for advanced graphic features for games?I'm not a Mac user, more of a curious PC user. Hopefully I'm not alone in regard to my pondering.
Filibuster - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
The cpu scaling article sounds like it may make or break my decision on the video card for my new pc.I'm looking forward to it.
Have fun at Ati.
crtfanboy - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
hey, congrats on the mac office trip. It's good to see you getting more well-rounded.how about some video card overclocking? I'd love to see how much head room these things have.... no rush though, I won't be able to afford one of these new fangled cards for a couple years
GX - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
Um, wbwither:You wrote: "#1 missed a couple of ATI questions:
1) Will the Mac ever see an All-In-Wonder product?"
>>> #1 asked if ATI would ever produce a Mac-specific card - and an All-in-Wonder falls under that possible category. His question already covers your question.
You wrote: "2) Will the next-gen ATI chip that powers the Xbox2 be available for the Mac?"
>>> Again, redundant question.
You wrote: "As for #1's #4: Why would ATI ever produce a Mac-specific card? They certainly wouldn't produce a Mac-specific GPU at any rate."
>>> You seem to ask the very question that you try to answer - you indicate you think it's not something ATI would do but you ask if they will make very specific products.
I'm not sure I'm getting what you're trying to say here.
GX
wbwither - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
#1 missed a couple of ATI questions:1) Will the Mac ever see an All-In-Wonder product?
2) Will the next-gen ATI chip that powers the Xbox2 be available for the Mac?
As for #1's #4: Why would ATI ever produce a Mac-specific card? They certainly wouldn't produce a Mac-specific GPU at any rate.
David Smith - Thursday, December 9, 2004 - link
I'd be interested to hear if Apple dropping the ADC port will cut costs for ATI any.Dee - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
The_Necromancer strikes again! :-(Anand: The GPU/Memory bandwidth articles sound very interesting. It is one of the most anticipated articles. :)
The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
beautiful*The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
dang my beutiful art work has gotten mutilated.I am so sad :-(
The_Necromancer - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
Ok heres the deal, I am a long time Readon user (powercolor all the way) but i neeed a new Gpu, now from what i have been reading Reodon slows a bit with Doom 3 ,however it does well inhalflife 2, will new video games run off of the doom 3 engine or will they run off of the half life engine,(i will be staying w/ the agp slot) also does anyone know anything about the advancement of the glaicer engine for hitman-blood money.
oh and on a side note, I am definetly not looking at any cutting edge. //////////
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Live - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
The "GPU/memory bandwidth scaling on a card per card basis as well to find out where the limitations with the various GPUs lie" sounds migthy interesting.Michael - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
Man, you covered all of the possible ATI/Mac questions there didn't you?r4v3 - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - link
For the Mac questions, here's a couple:1. Will current-gen (ie. X800, i'm not even talking about X850) ATI GPUs ever be made for the Mac?
2. Do they have any insights into Apple's plans for PCIe?
3. Any details on the X1800 (or whatever it's gonna be called)?
4. Will ATI ever create Mac-specific cards?
5. What about FireGL cards?
6. Not really Mac-related, but important- any major changes in the Linux drivers? (ie up-to-date performance, actual installer)
I'm not sure if there are FireGL cards already (I don't think there are), so correct me if I'm wrong about anything.
Keep up the work on the HL2 article, I'm looking forward to it! Hopefully you'll test CPUs down to a P4 1.6Ghz (Willamette s468), since that's what I'm running. :(