Converting OS X AddressBook to KAddress?

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:39 pm, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
> As you've been told before, Apple's cards have Apple-specific
> features like ADC connectors and have a Mac Open Firmware / NDRV ROM
> instead of a PC VGA BIOS ROM.
>
>
> This implies nothing about the GPU on them.
>
>
> Which, as you may recall, is the part that you had originally claimed
> was castrated in Apple's cards.


If they are the same card, then why, based on these tests, does it perfor=
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poorly against the MX200? a card which is 3 years old - well, not to appl=
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but to the pc world it is.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/geforce4_ti/geforce4_titanium_Mac.htm=
l

Look at the speed comparisons, they are terrible, what do you do, go thro=
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life with a set of blinders on? do you think anyone in the PC world would=
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a card that performed that poorly against a GF 200 MX? the MX is always t=
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lowest and cheapest version of Nvidia's cards - those GF2's sell for like=
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35.00 now, and Apple foists a card off on Mac users for 399.00 that is le=
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then 1% faster then a 3 year old card, in most cases it isn't any faster =
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somewhat slower then a GF3 - which is really nothing more then a supped u=
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GF2 ti 200, as the GF3 was really an MX version.

I i know, its the drivers, except that 10.2 is out, the Mall of America (=
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minutes from my front door) has one of apple's flagship stores, the boxes=
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with 10.2 and the GF4s  are there to play with, and you know what? side b=
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side with the older model, no speed increase, nada, the GF3 is faster in =
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then the GF4 is in 10.2

Even if it's Apples MB that sucks, and not the card itself, does it reall=
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matter when your locked into a proprietary system? NO

Show me one INDEPENDANT benchmark test where the Apple box wins overall, =
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just with a few photoshop plugins, the rest of us dont spend our lives=20
tweaking images. The last time I know of was in 1995, the 604's were fast=
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then there PC counterparts.
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 Robert Brandtjen
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