Post by aquamac on Sept 7, 2007 21:23:25 GMT
There is an interesting article here at Tom's Hardware regarding the current pitifull selection of available cards for the mac pro. The standard offer (7300 GT) on a professional machine is really lacking. I remember when I got my G5, the card to have in the PC world and Mac world was the 6800 GT/Ultra and it was available for the mac. Current top cards such as G80 nvidia's and ATI's 2900 series are not yet available for the mac. I wonder why? Has Apple lost interest in what was their core business. Let's face it the mac Pro is supposed to be a professional Graphics machine. No wonder there is currently so much interest in OSX 86 & flashing cards!
Excerpt from Tom's Hardware:
"Has Apple lived up to its standard as the computer graphics giant with this summer’s new lineup? Absolutely not, and it hasn’t even come close.
It’s hard to tell exactly what’s wrong at Apple. Maybe Steve Jobs and the rest of Apple’s business and technical leadership are so obsessed with the success of iPods, iPhones and iTunes that computers no longer are Apple’s flagship product. I’m disappointed enough in this summer’s releases to believe just that.
How much will this hurt Apple? It depends on how you look at it. In terms of losing current Mac customers, it may not hurt them at all. There are a certain amount of Mac fans that are going to buy the next Mac computer to be released, just as there are a certain amount of Windows fans that are going to wait in line outside of computer retailers at midnight to buy the latest version of Windows, regardless of how overpriced or underachieving the computer, or Windows Vista, may be. Nothing is going to change that.
Where will Apple be hurt? I mentioned in the first page of this article that I was considering investing in a high-end Apple desktop. That consideration is now history. I’ll be investing my money in either a retail or home-built Intel quad-core PC. That’s where Apple will be hurt, not in losses of current customers, but in future growth. People like me, who were considering making the switch, now consider that idea unthinkable.
There’s one image that sticks in my mind of just how far downhill Apple has slid when it comes to building graphics computers. It’s a Tom’s Hardware Guide chart showing the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM (the default graphics card from the Mac Pro) versus other cards in the most-intense 3DMark benchmarking test. As a disclaimer, I have to note that this is not the exact same card as the one in the Mac, since the Mac card would be made by a manufacturer that makes Apple cards, and this chart contains Windows cards. But either way, the card is the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM. It’s represented below by the blue bar graph"
Click here for the full article
Excerpt from Tom's Hardware:
"Has Apple lived up to its standard as the computer graphics giant with this summer’s new lineup? Absolutely not, and it hasn’t even come close.
It’s hard to tell exactly what’s wrong at Apple. Maybe Steve Jobs and the rest of Apple’s business and technical leadership are so obsessed with the success of iPods, iPhones and iTunes that computers no longer are Apple’s flagship product. I’m disappointed enough in this summer’s releases to believe just that.
How much will this hurt Apple? It depends on how you look at it. In terms of losing current Mac customers, it may not hurt them at all. There are a certain amount of Mac fans that are going to buy the next Mac computer to be released, just as there are a certain amount of Windows fans that are going to wait in line outside of computer retailers at midnight to buy the latest version of Windows, regardless of how overpriced or underachieving the computer, or Windows Vista, may be. Nothing is going to change that.
Where will Apple be hurt? I mentioned in the first page of this article that I was considering investing in a high-end Apple desktop. That consideration is now history. I’ll be investing my money in either a retail or home-built Intel quad-core PC. That’s where Apple will be hurt, not in losses of current customers, but in future growth. People like me, who were considering making the switch, now consider that idea unthinkable.
There’s one image that sticks in my mind of just how far downhill Apple has slid when it comes to building graphics computers. It’s a Tom’s Hardware Guide chart showing the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM (the default graphics card from the Mac Pro) versus other cards in the most-intense 3DMark benchmarking test. As a disclaimer, I have to note that this is not the exact same card as the one in the Mac, since the Mac card would be made by a manufacturer that makes Apple cards, and this chart contains Windows cards. But either way, the card is the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM. It’s represented below by the blue bar graph"
Click here for the full article
