[geeks] PCI-E video cards

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:26:49AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Dumb question, but couldn't the work of the "Hackintosh" folks to use
> their PC cards in PC machines be put to advantage in an actual Apple
> Mac? Seems to me if they can get Card X supported on a non-Apple box,
> it should be just as easy/hard to get it to work on an actual Apple
> Mac - shouldn't it? 
> 
> Just a thought - my Hackintosh will have the built-in graphics from
> the Intel 945 chipset, same as some early Intel MacBooks... 

One difference is that hackintosh's tend to use BIOSs from Phoenix or
AMI, while the real Macs use EFI.  I suspect that makes some difference
to what cards will work.