[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>Date: 2008/05/21 Wed PM 01:14:55 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

>On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:50:41AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> To be utterly honest I found the GeForce 7300 GT to be fairly adequate for 
>>> most stuff in OS X,
>> It was OK except for a few things.  I found it got bogged down with a lot 
>> of windows and a lot of system load, while the 8800 doesn't even notice.
>
>Am I weird that the onboard GMA950 graphics in the Mini are fine for
>everything *I* do?

I meant to add that I think Apple invested some time and really wrung good performance out of that chipset by developing a really good driver for it, to ensure that graphic adapter would be useful for a few years after teh system goes out the door...

Lionel