mac version When?

[dfryer]

I\'d love to be able to upgrade my graphics card - PC graphics cards need to have their firmware \"flashed\" with Mac-specific information.. unfortunately it is an all-in-one mac, and not a tower, so I have no AGP slot - the agp controller & GPU is soldered on to the motherboard.

[vaxine0]

Sign still here getting on my computer everyday crossing my fingers and saying  to day ps mac version will come out\" but i look at the screen and  its not ready...  still waiting here yup..

[Parts]

Originally posted by dfryer
I\'d love to be able to upgrade my graphics card - PC graphics cards need to have their firmware \"flashed\" with Mac-specific information.. unfortunately it is an all-in-one mac, and not a tower, so I have no AGP slot - the agp controller & GPU is soldered on to the motherboard.

Despite your GPU being mounted to the mainboard, is it possible that you  could use a GeForce FX5200 in a PCI slot to boost performance?

Can this sort of card be flashed with the neccesary stuff?

[Seytra]

I like X86 because they are highly modular. Unfortunately, there seems to be a disturbing trend to reverse this, seeing that almost everything nowadays becomes integrated on the mainboard. This way, I have to pay for all the crap that I know I\'ll never use, and it just wastes energy as well. ATX was a huge step backwards IMO. It\'s almost like a present to the power companies, as your PC will waste energy even when it\'s supposedly switched off. I absolutely hate it, along with the stupid idea of having the PS/2 mouse take one interrupt for itself, and also having these fragile little PS/2 plugs everywhere. And I\'m not even talking about these AGP and memory plugs... *hates it all*

[dfryer]

\"Tower\" style Macs have AGP & PCI slots, but the poorer mac users among us are stuck with all-in-one units with no expansion slots whatsoever (except for RAM) so for this machine, upgrades are a no-go.

[JeroMiya]

Just for comparison, it takes at least a 1GHz PPC, 512MB ram, and at least a Radeon 9000 or better to run World of Warcraft, and that game is *highly* optimized and doesn\'t even push out as many polygons as Planeshift does in many places. I have a 1.5Ghz PowerBook with a Mobile Radeon 9700 w/128MB of VRAM and it stutters even for me in certain places.

Also, almost all recent games require 10.3.x to run, and 10.3.5 in particular (Warcraft will require 10.3.6 when that comes out) because of critical driver bug fixes and optimizations. I wouldn\'t even recommend supporting 10.2 let alone developing on it.



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[dfryer]

It\'s much, much easier to support 10.2 when you develop on it  Keeps you from becoming disinterested in the platform...