NVIDIA in MACS!

[Noriaki]

Hhehehe I agree bluemax.

I live in Calgary now, and in the beginning of december it was nearly -50 with WindChill, but you just wear an extra pair of socks and some warm glvoes and you're fine. Life goes on. I really don't like the heat either, but they probably get used to it, and wouldn't like the weather in winnipeg or calgary anymore than we would in California. But it's not like it's that cold for 9 months of the year...I'm just getting tired of people that think Canada is a giant igloo.

 

[rickn]

I aint gonna argue Canada vs US. The point I was trying to make, based on econony, wages, taxes, and climate(and climate does have an impact on where people wish to live) more people would choose to live in California than Canada. Calfornia alone has a higher population then the entire country of Canada.



<< rickn: No offense but do you even have any idea what you are talking about? Canada is not &quot;a frozen Sh!thole 9 months out of the year&quot;. >>



Yes, I have family that lives in Ohio. Some years it starts turning cold as early as September, and doesnt start warming up til May. That is 8 months of crummy weather. Sorry, I will take my Florida weather anyday.

 

[hans007]

all this reallly doesnt matter. Apple isn't gonna make it till next xmas anyways.

 

[Bignate603]

Apple will do well just because for some reason video and photo editing seem to be slightly happier on them. My school's media lab is full of macs and I have to admitthey do a decent job at it. They may die out as home machines but i thinkthey have a niche for now.

 

[BFG10K]

I posted this in the other thread:

Apple's charging $3500 for a 733 MHz system which has the features of a year old PC. No thanks.

Also the 667 MHz and 733 MHz models aren't even available yet. The highest you can get is a 533 MHz system. The faster systems depend on Motorolla's chip yields, and we all know how good those have been in the past.

In addition Macs don't have DDR RAM/RDRAM/AGP x 8/Ultra ATA 100. Basically Macs have gone from being 18 months behind to 12 months behind.

Regarding Dave's comments about nVidia's drivers, I've heard that at the moment all they'll do is accelerate 3D stuff and 2D things will be unaccelerated.

qadesh:

I wonder if other NVidia cards will work with the Apple drivers, ala detonator's containing support for all card ?!

The answer is no (unless nVidia add in extra driver hacks). Only the GF2 MX supports the Mac's reverse endian data format. Plus the other GF cards will require BIOS flashes in a very similar manner to Voodoo3s. I am not aware of this currently being possible.