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PowerMac G5's are 3-5 days shipping now

· Hardware · 33 posts · Apr 22, 2005 View original thread ↗

#31 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 - 00:53

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Originally Posted by Al G

The same as Apple is at the mercy of IBM for their CPUs, they're at the mercy of the GPU makers for Mac versions of PCI-express video cards. If ATI and Nvidia don't have them ready for the Mac, they don't have them ready. No one is going to buy a Mac with PCI-express if there are no video cards to put in it.

PCI Express cards exist. They don't need to re-invent the wheel, they just need to manufacture drivers and perhaps some updated firmware for the freakin' things, although I'm pretty sure the firmware is platform independent. And if Apple wants PCI-Express video cards and drivers, they just have to order them, for crying out loud. I'm not talking about the lack of 3rd-party cards for mac (which there are, compared to the PC offerings), but OEM cards. You really think either company is going to say "No" to an order of some 200,000 video cards?

#32 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 - 00:53

how much is g5 right now?

#33 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 - 00:53

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Originally Posted by askunk

According to the link above, Lightscribe is already implemented in MacOS:

System Requirements :
Mac
Hardware: Power Mac G4 500 Mhz; 256MB RAM
Single Layer recording: Mac OS 9.1 and 10.1.2 or later
Double Layer recording: 10.2.3 or later
LightScribe Printing: 10.3.2 or later

Um, huh? that link is for the Lacie external Dual layer DVD burner with Lightscribe and the Lightsribe will only work in 10.3.2 or later. The burner is made to be used with the Macintosh. The lightcribe technology won't work inside the Mac using the Superdrive.