[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> You're not going to get QE without OGL.

   Yeah I know that but my point was I don't strictly need OpenGL.  This 
is for a user-oriented (email, web browsing, DreamWeaver, etc) machine.

>   I was happy with my Radeon
> 7000, and they can be had for < $100 used.  It did one monitor of
> 1600x1200 at 72 and a second one of 1280x1024 at 72 without a complaint, and
> with QE "acceleration" (with the property-list hack).  However, with
> -that- much framebuffer in use, QE actually slowed things down because
> it was saturating the PCI bus.

   Hmm...overall responsiveness is important here.

> If that's too rich, maybe one of the second-generation Rage128 cards is
> more along the lines of what you'd like.  It's a damn shame that Matrox
> hasn't penetrated the Mac market yet.  There's a real lack of decent 2D
> cards for Macs.

   That's way too rich.  Unless, of course, I have no other alternative.

   Does anyone have a suitable card for sale?  The budget is about fifty 
bucks.  I'll happily sacrifice Quartz Extreme for decent resolution and 
2D performance.  No, this isn't for me, it's for my mom.

        -Dave

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