11/15/2022 0 Comments Radeon 9600 for macTo sell it for $129 five or six years after its release is just. That card is so slow (between an original Radeon and a Rage 128) that even 32 MB was more than enough to keep it efficient. Especially ridiculous is the 128 MB Radeon 7000. It took them that many months to solder some larger RAM chips to their existing cards? What's wrong? Why isn't there an actual IMPROVED lineup, such as a 9800XT 256MB on the super high end, the current 9800 Pro for the middle to high end, a 9600 Pro 128 MB in the middle, and both PCI and AGP versions of a 128 MB 9200 for the low end? Keep the same prices as the PC versions or even hike them up a bit, just not the unreasonable amount that they have been. All they did was add more VRAM to their existing cards. Meanwhile, they don't release a single new GPU. ATI is MONTHS late with their so-called "new" cards. The latest releases are simply insulting. Recently they announced the 256 MB Radeon 9800, the 128 MB Radeon 9000, and the 128 MB Radeon 7000 PCI. The only company that sells retail cards is ATI, and they seem to enjoy screwing Mac users. But graphics cards are just sucking it up on the Mac platform. Processors are less available but there is plenty of competition from OWC, GigaDesigns, Sonnet, and PowerLogix, making super-fast G4 upgrades for Sawtooth and Quicksilver machines somewhat affordable. You can buy hard drives, RAM, optical drives, speakers, monitors, and input devices from generic PC outlets like NewEgg. Of all the Mac components available, graphics cards are by far the WORST.
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