Apple favoures nVidia above ATI

[paulcs]

Actually, Matrox has made Apple compatible cards before. A while back, there was a lot of talk about who might challenge ATI by producing a board for the Mac. Matrox was always mentioned, because they had experience.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[paulcs]

This could be a real blow to ATI. They virtually had a monopoly, and Apple was their biggest OEM customer.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Himself]

One bright spot:

http://www.ati.com/na/pages/corporat...2001/4355.html

ATi just made $65mil on a stock sale, no idea if that's really significant or not overall.

[Alec]

Hey, what about this (quoted from Matroxusers.com):

Back To Mac
Good news from Matrox in that their graphics chips are making a comeback on the Macintosh, albeit not directly from Matrox themselves. Good idea letting other vendors use Matrox chips on their boards maybe it'll catch on.


Matrox endorses the ProMax DH-MAX graphics card for the PowerMacintosh G4
Matrox DualHead® supported on Mac systems for the first time

Montreal, Canada, January 10, 2001-Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced endorsement for the DH-MAX, a dual display AGP graphics solution offered by leading Macintosh reseller, ProMax Systems, Inc., on the PowerMacintosh G4 and G4 Cube.

The DH-MAX is a 32 MB AGP-compatible graphics card based on the Matrox G400 chip-the same chip that powers the award-winning Matrox Millennium G400 graphics card-and is bundled with a Mac-based driver written by ProMax specifically for the DH-MAX. The desktop of choice for creative and scientific professionals, the Power Mac G4 leverages the DH-MAX's 300 MHz RAMDAC to output clear images and text in sharp colour.

"ProMax has now made it possible for Mac users to benefit from Matrox's award-winning DualHead technology and at an extremely competitive price for this market space," said Mitch Furman, senior product manager, display technologies, Matrox Graphics Inc. "Matrox is delighted to see the scope of DualHead broadening among the computer industry."

In addition to outstanding 2D graphics performance, the Matrox G400-based DH-MAX boasts Matrox DualHead display capability. The addition of a second monitor, analogue flat panel or TV lets users view their work in greater perspective for added efficiency. As well, DualHead facilitates presentations with its ability to clone the desktop to a second monitor or a larger display such as a big-screen TV. Professionals using the Power Mac G4 and G4 Cube will appreciate the ability of the DH-MAX to power two displays simultaneously using a single AGP card, saving precious PCI slots.

The ProMax DH-MAX driver currently supports DualHead display and will include support for 3D and DVI in future releases.

About ProMax
ProMax Systems, Inc., is a leading developer and value-added reseller (VAR) of digital video editing systems using computers and components from ProMax, Apple, Matrox, Adaptec, Seagate, IBM, Canon, JVC, Panasonic, Adobe and Boris. ProMax is a privately held company with headquarters in Southern California and engineering offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Indianapolis.


The ProMax P2H-AGP board based around the G400 retails for $299 and features a 300MHz RAMDAC with 32MB of SGRAM memory.


ProMax P2H-AGP Part No.: 5678 Price: $299.00

DVD Playback To Be Supported Spring of 2001

Single Card in AGP Slot - G4 Macintosh Only: *Saves a Slot When Connecting Two Monitors *Connect Two VGA Computer Monitors or *Connect One Analog VGA Monitor Plus One NTSC or PAL Studio Monitor

Double Your Desktop For Larger Viewing Area: *Extend One Application Across Two Monitors *Have Two or More Applications Open at Once *Use Control Panel to Select Which Monitor Boots *Set The Relative Position of Each Monitor *Set Resolution of Each Monitor *Set Number of Colors of Each Monitor

NTSC/PAL Connections Furnished: *S-Video and Composite Video Outputs

Resolutions Supported: *Up to 2048 x 1536 - Millions of Colors (32 bpp) at 85 Hz

Memory on Board: *32 MB of Fixed High-Bandwidth SGRAM

RAMDAC: *300 MHz RAMDAC

256-bit DualBus: *Unique 256-bit DualBus Combined With 128-bit Memory Bus Results in Fast Graphics And The Acceleration of QuickTime/QuickDraw 3D/Open GL


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I don´t understand why should those looney guys at Apple prefer NVidia cards over ATI in 2D, at least. Or has Nvidia learned how to make good 2D image already? And why don´t they choose Matrox for all products? I´m writing this post on my work computer, a G3 with an ATI 16Mb, which looks great at 1280x1024 in my Sony Multiscan G500. I doubt that any Nvidia card would keep up to this quality.


[This message has been edited by Alec (edited 31 January 2001).]

[dZeus]

Apple favoures nVidia above ATI

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/16492.html

if it's true, Apple loses the image of high quality video editing/photoshop machine in my eyes... you can't possibly be serious in using nVidia chips for a graphic workhorse like the Mac?

well... at least Mac users can upgrade to Matrox now that som of their cards are available for Mac owners. Sometimes I wonder why Matrox hasn't made apple compatible cards before.. Apple is what I normally associate with high quality graphics editing, and Matrox fits in that description perfectly.