160 dollars and 6 weeks saved later I am quite happy with my iMac box. For some reason, even with my "slow" Nvidea chipset I can still max the graphics on every game I have thrown at it. There were largely two reasons I went this way. 1) Nvidea and Mac are bussom buddies, this equals good things when snow leopard comes out and the GPU becomes a massive tool 2) Apple foolish trusts ATi to build a driver set for their cards where as they right their own for the Nvidea product. 3) (ok so I can't count) I was traumatized with as a child with a Dell and an ATi quadra like thing, I say no more.
Let me say that ATi makes a good hardware product (from what I can tell when the things are actually working for me). Where things seem to fall apart is with the companies drivers. I know it must be incredibly challenging to make drivers for all the win-tard boxes out there but Nvidea has always been up to this challenge. Now with the field even easier (there are what, 2 model of mac that will be using this chipset?) ironing out the kinks seems to still be too difficult. I was hoping that AMD could slap some sense into them but so for it looks like no dice. Can't say I would have almost bankrupted my company to buy them personally...
It looks like my hunch was correct as my Mac "Genius" gaming instructor now gets to sit and watch a frozen screen while I am dishing out carnage on UT3. So sad I didn't go the ATi route...
So yes, there concludes blog 2. Sorry it is not as funny but I am tired, need to be doing work and just wanted to poke a jab at my friends at the apple store and ATi (yes, i do in fact enjoy kicking people while they are down, who could right a tech blog if they weren't soulless enough to do that?)
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