Mr. Mister said:
Well firstly, i'm not stupid. The reason money isn't an issue for me is because I don't waste it when I don't have too.
Secondly, I know that there is no way in hell my computer is arriving at any time close to october.....
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Well firstly, i'm not stupid. The reason money isn't an issue for me is because I don't waste it when I don't have too.
Secondly, I know that there is no way in hell my computer is arriving at any time close to october.....
The Display Rotation feature is not enabled on the 1900 according to http://www.hardmac.com in case anyone here was expecting it to be.
That's unfortunately not too great of a surprise, Apple-provided GPUs have never seemed to work with the ATI software (or is this for a different reason? did they ever change that about the software? -the page won't load for me)
EDIT: Do you still have the page cached or remember roughly what it said?
EDIT: Do you still have the page cached or remember roughly what it said?
Rocksteady said:
I don't know. That's what i'm wondering.
I don't even understand what exactly directx is....
If the new video cards specs are alot better then i'll buy one, but if it's simply "direct x 10" I don't get it.......
Here's the link to the Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
Quite simply that's the main hurdle for porting games to the Mac. There's no DirectX on the Mac, only OpenGL. All the video cards work with either DirectX or OpenGL, though if you got a DirectX 10 card, it'd probably be more for running Vista.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
Quite simply that's the main hurdle for porting games to the Mac. There's no DirectX on the Mac, only OpenGL. All the video cards work with either DirectX or OpenGL, though if you got a DirectX 10 card, it'd probably be more for running Vista.
Is Display Rotation a good thing? I thought it's just turning your screen at 90 degree angles. Kind of pointless, unless you want to hang your moniter upside down, and see everything straight.
Well it's for if you want to run your monitor in Portrait mode, you turn a widescreen display on it's side. You get a REALLY long display vertically.macgeek2005 said:
kered22 said:
the computers i use at school have it and i use it all the time for photoshop.... they are pc though (ick) but ya it is useful
Well I finally decided to ask my uncle.
As some of you may remember, my uncle is a friend of Steve Jobs.
He said that when he asked steve about it, steve only smiled and said that the customers will be pleased.....
As some of you may remember, my uncle is a friend of Steve Jobs.
He said that when he asked steve about it, steve only smiled and said that the customers will be pleased.....
blast, right when I was about to put my order in for the Mac Pro with the 7300, I read macgeek's post and come full circle back to being torn whether or not to put the X1900 into my order.
arrghh! i was just about to order my macpro when i seen in my cart the diff was only 250 between the 1900 and the 7300! why O why!
Price drop on X1900XT
I just got off the phone with Apple and they gave me a $92 discount for the price drop in the vid-card from what was on my 21 August order - down to $230 on the government store! I'll take it.
EvilMonk said:With the price dropped i think you have your surprise
I just got off the phone with Apple and they gave me a $92 discount for the price drop in the vid-card from what was on my 21 August order - down to $230 on the government store! I'll take it.
mustard said:Just called them up to have my price adjusted - they gave me $100 off and upgraded my shipping for free.
I just called them and the person I spoke to knew nothing about a price drop (though my online order status showed the drop), knew nothing about the X1950, and knew nothing about upgraded shipping.
Hopefully, if Apple gave mustard free shipping, we'll all get it, or am I dreaming???
I thought they were giving free shipping no matter what. When I go to the mac pro config page it says 'Free Shipping'. Is that subject to change or is it the area im in?