[rescue] Mmmmm SGI

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:31:10PM -0700, Eric Ozrelic wrote:
> > > If Apple would only stop fooling themselves with that GeForce stuff.
> > 
> > The GeForce cards are THE best in the world at what they do, and that is
> > excellent 2D, and excellent 3D for acceleration of games. I think a lot of
> > higher end 3D graphics manufactures should take a hint from Nvidia.
> 
> The Wildcat is better at 2D (I wish it were better still, but that is 
> something else).  In particular, it accelerates OpenGL imaging, including
> hardware convolutions (usefull for many of the operations that programs
> like photoshop do, from filters to the magic wand).  But, for $2k, you have
> to be doing something more than photoshop to make it worthwhile.

Not that photoshop uses OpenGL for anything.... so big deal.

> 
> Apple makes Final Cut Pro.  Apple recently purchased Nothing Real, which makes
> Shake and Tremor.  Apple is pushing for their platform to be used for Maya
> and Combustion.  All of these programs benefit to some extent from a card
> like the wildcat, especially at HD resolutions.  I'm not saying they should
> ship Wildcats to everyone.  Just that they should make it an option for this
> target market of theirs.  If they included the Wildcat 5000 in addition to 
> the newer line (3DLabs still sells the 5000s, BTW), it wouldn't be too much 
> of a stretch for professionals to  afford (5110s are about $1.5k).  Obviously not the right card for schools and home users, but App
> 

Yeah.. and then you have to redesign the whole motherboard only to fit
those wildcats, they need AGPpro! Which is not cost effective for the
amount of people that might be interested in seeing a wildcat under OSX

Apple has bought some Videocard maker recently. Supposedly they are
developing their own high end gfx board....

See:

http://www.architosh.com/news/2002-04/2002c1-0412-applegraph1.phtml