Why doesn't Apple sell video cards at there store?
It seems like it's impossible to buy a better video card that's 100% for sure going to work out of the box. Apple should have a page at their online store for purchasing ATI and Nvidia cards. I have a GeForce 4 MX right now and would love to upgrade to a Ti card but don't no where to find one for Macs. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
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<strong>It seems like it's impossible to buy a better video card that's 100% for sure going to work out of the box. Apple should have a page at their online store for purchasing ATI and Nvidia cards. I have a GeForce 4 MX right now and would love to upgrade to a Ti card but don't no where to find one for Macs. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
That's because the GeForce4 Ti will be available only from Apple officially, just like ever nVidia product available to Apple before it. And the system requirements for ATI's card are at the ATI website.
I think I'm tired so I'll be off to bed now. Maybe I'll visit this topic again when I'm awake. Good night all.
They've already committed themselves to selling a standalone GeForce4 Ti 4600 in the near future.
For budget solutions, ATI is the way to go.
Was the GeForce 3 Titanium series ever available on a Mac? I only remember the original GeForce 3. And second, depending on how much it costs, the lower end GeForce 3s (Ti 200) is an excellent value on the PC side if you want a DirectX 8 part so it should also be a pretty nice value on the mac side.
A better question is why doesn't Apple build video cards. Come to think of it, do they actually build anything? They don't make the CPU, ram, optical drives, hard drives, bus technology... They make the mobo and that's nothing to brag about. For a hardware company, they don't seem to build too much hardware. They are completely dependant on third parties for their most important hardware technology. Hmmmmmmm...
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just like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, and HP!
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just like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, and HP! </strong><hr></blockquote>
Difference being that Compaq, Dell, Gateway, and HP have all the product and vendor support they need. Apple doesn't. That's why they should actually build the hardware that is crucial to their business.
Therefore, it'd be a great idea if Apple sold addon Geforce 3 cards for say..$150-175 (trying to be reasonable), then again, it would compete with Radeon 8500 sales, ATI would be pissed, etc.