GeForce 8800M GTX on the way?
Sure wouldn't mind an iMac, Mac Mini or MacBook Pro with one of these.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11...orce_8800_gtx/
Things are really looking up in the GPU market, if only Apple realized that.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11...orce_8800_gtx/
Things are really looking up in the GPU market, if only Apple realized that.
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Come'on Apple!!!
Unfortunatly, it seems that apple just won't listen to our pleas for better GPUs. Sure would like a more powerful GPU on my Mac Pro. (yes, yes, i have X1900, but Animation programs eat up an alarming amount of GRAM.
They listen to the ones who want paper thin notebooks instead. The two requirements are mutually exclusive.
You know, for a company that specializes in the video-graphics market, you'd think that they would offer top-of-the-line GPUs...
Apple as it is now is a boutique designer brand for better or worse. They give up power and some features for style and simplicity of use. This is one of the main reasons I've voiced my opinion for either a second brand or a partner.
I agree with some replies that said for a company that specialized in video-graphics market, the graphic card offering on some of their product line is disaapointing. I know that I can get a better equiped laptop/pc at the same price as Apple current offering. If only Apple would put good graphics card for their non-pro users, then I definately will own a Mac. So far the only thing that pushing me to buy a Mac is cause of the OS.
They listen to the ones who want paper thin notebooks instead.
And how many are those? I know at least one, his initials are S. J.; this guy likes paper- or book-thin desktops too.
Okay, refresh me back in my Mac history, before Apple made the switch to Intel, what GPU is the iBook using?
ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 is the last iBook GPU.
And how many are those? I know at least one, his initials are S. J.; this guy likes paper- or book-thin desktops too.
Yeah, and unfortunately his opinion is the only that seems to count.
iBooks in many ways had better GPUs than even last generation MacBooks...
I know mine could at least run the latest games at the time. That's more than can be said of the GMA Macbook.
http://www.uefi.org/about/
AMD is a standing member so I would expect ATi will get focused on making their cards UEFI aware.
ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 is the last iBook GPU.
And it runs rings around the GMA950 for just about anything. It even does HD video.
The last batch of iBooks offered incredible bang for the buck.
Seriously.
:O
It isn't funny.
I should be laughing. But it isn't funny.
Lemon Bon Bon.
It's going to be embarrassing more so soon. Alienware with a GTX in a laptop and the Mac Pro doesn't have the option?
Seriously.
:O
It isn't funny.
I should be laughing. But it isn't funny.
Lemon Bon Bon.
Alienware makes laptops with Dual 512MB Nvidia® GeForce™ Go 8700M GT's that are SLI Enabled. Don't even use them as a mark. It's too embarrassing.
It's going to be embarrassing more so soon. Alienware with a GTX in a laptop and the Mac Pro doesn't have the option?
Seriously.
:O
It isn't funny.
I should be laughing. But it isn't funny.
Lemon Bon Bon.
I had not noticed that the Mac Pro still offers only a GF 7300 and a Radeon X1900 XT. Well, apart the Quadro that it is not for everyone. Just amazing, as S. J. would say, but for other things.
I guess Apple has a hard time to get the graphics card makers to produce something for the Mac.
I had not noticed that the Mac Pro still offers only a GF 7300 and a Radeon X1900 XT. Well, apart the Quadro that it is not for everyone. Just amazing, as S. J. would say, but for other things.
I guess Apple has a hard time to get the graphics card makers to produce something for the Mac.
Alienware makes laptops with Dual 512MB Nvidia® GeForce? Go 8700M GT's that are SLI Enabled. Don't even use them as a mark. It's too embarrassing.
Eh? I'm crying in my urine as I speak.
Lemon Bon Bon
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)'s gaming unit is holding off on launching systems based on Intel (NSDQ:INTC)'s new Penryn processor, saying that while the 45 nm chip is reliable on Intel chipsets more work needed to be done for the CPU to work with Nvidia's SLI.
Rahul Sood, chief technology officer for HP's gaming unit, said on his web log Wednesday that his company received information last week - - which he declined to specify - - that kept it from launching gaming products with Penryn. Sood later clarified his remarks to say Intel's CPU itself was not unreliable, but that as a platform additional work needed to be done with third party chipsets.
"We haven't launched Intel's 45 nm processor as planned," Sood wrote. "We, like many, were hoping that it would work flawlessly on certain chipsets -- and well, unfortunately it doesn't -- not yet anyways." He said that "the bottom line is we're working on a solution for Nvidia SLI, but at the moment there isn't one."
Also I don't think Apple is going to offer any SLI capable mainboards anyway.