Giovanni Azua wrote:
> hi,
>
> I was thinking of buying a new Mac Pro too but discarded the
> idea precisely for this very same reason i.e. their handful very
> limited sup****ted set of video cards. Opted to stay with my
> Dell Precision 670 and upgrade it.
>
> When I investigated it turned out that is not a hardware incompatibility
> e.g. the 8800 would fit the PCIe and even work from e.g. Windows XP
Yes, you must run one of the major operating systems like FreeBSD. ;-)
> booted from Boot Camp, the problem is that Mac OS would not
> recognize such card and not boot... it is a Mac OS drivers issue
> AFAIK.
I believe some people who tried it also fried their Mac Pro PSUs, which
simply aren't powerful enough to run modern graphics hardware.
> I even remember reading that someone was kept switching
> two video cards all the time. It is really a shame on such a big
> player and successful monster like Apple.
Yes, we are interested in creating software for Mac OS X users so we
recently got our first Mac. We studied the specs and decided that the Mac
Pro is a complete waste of money for exactly the same reason. So we just
got a Mac Mini instead: cheap machine that also has poor graphics.
This means the difference between us pioneering new software for Mac OS X
and just doing legacy ****ts. Shame.
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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u
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