Originally posted by: BDawg
What an ignorant opinion.
LOL! I think that 16 years on the Mac including doing regional marketing for them entitles me to consider my opinions to be a bit more than ignorant.
As I said, I do think that ADC was a brilliant idea. However, I said it with the necessary scorn for Apple making another foray into a proprietary connector instead of trying to get it certified as a standard like they did with FireWire. ADC is basically a variant of DVI, and one that probably
should have become a standard, but Apple under Steve Jobs has moved steadily back to proprietary hardware.
I'm going to go off on a little side rant here. When Amelio was at the helm of Apple, people only saw their hemorrhaging stock prices; however, that downward trend predated Amelio and he was hired to fix things. Under his watch, some of the things Apple did included switching to the G3 chip, switching to standard IDE devices, standard memory types, etc. While he was at the helm, Apple actually came out with Macs that were faster in clock speed than the Intel chips in PCs AND they were more efficient to boot. Amelio was the one that decided to kill the new OS that was going to be based on the old system, and instead bought NeXT. He basically is the one responsible for saving the company. However, in buying NeXT he also bought Steve Jobs who is a shark to put it mildly. Steve basically forced Amelio out and rode on Amelio's successes. And since then has proceeded to move Apple more and more into proprietary hardware again like the ADC and their funky non-standard speaker plugs and such. So now you can't buy an Apple monitor for a PC and you can't plug normal PC speakers into most new Macs. And as for the OS, while you may think that OS X is a work of wonder, it's little more than NeXT with some of the old OS style skinned on. The useability sucks major donkey balls in a lot of ways, in no small part because Steve fired all of the Human Interface department before OS X was released.
And that doesn't even scratch the surface of how I really feel.
Sorry to hijack your thread Jaylio. Here's the answer to your question:
Originally posted by: Jaylio
1. "Is there a unique use for this card?"
No. There's nothing magical about an Apple card that somehow makes it better than a PC equivalent. In fact, when Apple bundled the GeForce MX cards as their "high end" video for graphics professionals it was one of the last insults I put up with from them. My old Mac with ATI Rage128 had better 2D graphics than that.