[geeks] MacOS X and video cards

[Andrew Weiss]

I'll sell you an OEM ATI Rage 128 with DVD encoder board.  The DVD 
board only works in Classic MacOS, but the card does well with Software 
DVD Player in OS X.

Andrew

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 04:41  PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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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