Architosh: Apple developing advanced dual-engine graphics card
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[quote] According to sources of ours who have actually seen the unit, Apple has been quietly developing a powerful new graphics card which will finally rectify one of the chief complaints of highend video and 3D pros who say it keeps them off the Macintosh platform, despite the fact that they want to be there.
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[quote] In a special invitation only event (no press allowed) Apple held a 'Studio Summit' back in the early part of this year. Inviting all of the major Hollywood studios and effects houses, Apple made its best business case for Mac OS X and asked for critical feedback.
At this special event Jobs candidly asked the question: what will it take for all of you to move over to Mac OS X? Apple was specifically looking for constructive information from which to make future plans. In a note from sources familiar with the private event, Jobs apparently said Apple was prepared to do whatever was necessary to satisfy the needs of this elite user-base.
Chief 'wants' among the studios is for more powerful hardware. Specifically, they want 'best of breed' graphics performance and options there. They also want a 1U or 2U industry standard, rack-mountable Power Mac for render farm building and servers. And they want only duals and quads -- single processor Macs are not desired except at the portable level.
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[quote] So what does Apple have planned? Well our news comes from a source who says even he could not get definitive information, though apparently this new graphics card was inside of a G5 test box (though our sources say it may have been a future G4) which has been in one location for several months. Details of the inside of this box, which we have only touched upon in general terms, were recently discussed in greater technical detail in an AppleInsider forum. The details match up very nicely with information which we have published previously.
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[quote] According to sources of ours who have actually seen the unit, Apple has been quietly developing a powerful new graphics card which will finally rectify one of the chief complaints of highend video and 3D pros who say it keeps them off the Macintosh platform, despite the fact that they want to be there.
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[quote] In a special invitation only event (no press allowed) Apple held a 'Studio Summit' back in the early part of this year. Inviting all of the major Hollywood studios and effects houses, Apple made its best business case for Mac OS X and asked for critical feedback.
At this special event Jobs candidly asked the question: what will it take for all of you to move over to Mac OS X? Apple was specifically looking for constructive information from which to make future plans. In a note from sources familiar with the private event, Jobs apparently said Apple was prepared to do whatever was necessary to satisfy the needs of this elite user-base.
Chief 'wants' among the studios is for more powerful hardware. Specifically, they want 'best of breed' graphics performance and options there. They also want a 1U or 2U industry standard, rack-mountable Power Mac for render farm building and servers. And they want only duals and quads -- single processor Macs are not desired except at the portable level.
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[quote] So what does Apple have planned? Well our news comes from a source who says even he could not get definitive information, though apparently this new graphics card was inside of a G5 test box (though our sources say it may have been a future G4) which has been in one location for several months. Details of the inside of this box, which we have only touched upon in general terms, were recently discussed in greater technical detail in an AppleInsider forum. The details match up very nicely with information which we have published previously.
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<strong>See Twin Engine GPU by Flounder</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oops. Don't know how I managed to miss that.
Thanks.