MacMini uses 9200 : (

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Noozer

Well... Apple dropped the ball again.

How many folks in here would pay money for an ATI 9200 card? What kind of PC
games would you expect to be able run on a 9200?

The 9200 chip is what Apple put into their Mac Mini... *sigh*
 
Hawkeye said:
Better question is who would even play games on a Mac
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Is for gay people who wish to back-up there iPod music.
Also sounds great at the gay bar, when you mention you have a Mac.
Extra gayness brownie points!
 
Noozer said:
Well... Apple dropped the ball again.

How many folks in here would pay money for an ATI 9200 card? What kind of
PC games would you expect to be able run on a 9200?

The 9200 chip is what Apple put into their Mac Mini... *sigh*
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Hey, what do you expect for 500 bucks?

If your objective is to play games then a Mac is not the right machine for
you.

The amazing thing is that they somehow managed to come up with Unix drivers
for an ATI chip.
 
Minotaur said:
Is for gay people who wish to back-up there iPod music.
Also sounds great at the gay bar, when you mention you have a Mac.
Extra gayness brownie points!
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Sounds like you have several Mac's already? I bet you've got at least 2 Mac
Mini's on order as well!
 
Well... Apple dropped the ball again.
Hey, what do you expect for 500 bucks?
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Hrm... they could have use a 3.5" hard drive and saved $100 right there.
That would have more than covered the cost for a real video chipset.
If your objective is to play games then a Mac is not the right machine for
you.
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So you're saying that anyone who uses a computer professionally needs to
have at least one Windows box to play games? I don't want six different
computers in my house to do six different tasks. Even Grandma is going to
want a machine that can play Quake 3 reasonably well for when the kids come
over. (Been there, it's true).

Gaming isn't the only thing that benefits from good video hardware.
The amazing thing is that they somehow managed to come up with Unix drivers
for an ATI chip.
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I'm sure that Apple wouldn't have used that chip if ATI didn't play nice
with the drivers.

A computer that "does email, surfing and word processing" isn't a computer
any longer. It's an appliance. Guess Apple should open up a subsidiary
called "Appli" ? : )
 
Noozer said:
Sounds like you have several Mac's already? I bet you've got at least 2
Mac
Mini's on order as well!
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Woahhh... c'mon now. He was obviously just joking around and gay bashing.
It's funny for most of us old fashioned heteros. But with you it seems to
have struck a nerve. Why is that?
 
Noozer said:
Hrm... they could have use a 3.5" hard drive and saved $100 right there.
That would have more than covered the cost for a real video chipset.


So you're saying that anyone who uses a computer professionally needs to
have at least one Windows box to play games?
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No, anyone who is serious about playing games needs to have at least one
Windows box for playing games.
I don't want six different
computers in my house to do six different tasks.
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Then don't. Geez, nobody's making you play games.
Even Grandma is going to
want a machine that can play Quake 3 reasonably well for when the kids
come over. (Been there, it's true).
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I have no idea how much Mac horsepower you need to play Quake 3, but it
plays fine on my old Radeon 8500 on an Athlon machine.
Gaming isn't the only thing that benefits from good video hardware.
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So what else that is in common use benefits from 3d acceleration?
I'm sure that Apple wouldn't have used that chip if ATI didn't play nice
with the drivers.

A computer that "does email, surfing and word processing" isn't a computer
any longer. It's an appliance. Guess Apple should open up a subsidiary
called "Appli" ? : )
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Depends on your definitions. Lawrence Livermore or Sandia would have gladly
paid several million dollars for that "appliance" in 1980.

There are a lot of tasks that do _not_ benefit from having a fast video
board and in fact do not require one at all, that go far beyond "email,
surfing, and word processing".
 
Considering the laughably small game library available to the Mac, it's not
a big deal.

Besides, isn't the 9200 just a 9100 with AGP8x? The 9100 is in turn a
renamed 8500, a Geforce3-level card. It will handle games like Q3, UT2004
just fine... assuming the drivers are on par with its Windows counterpart.
 
Tony said:
Woahhh... c'mon now. He was obviously just joking around and gay bashing.
It's funny for most of us old fashioned heteros. But with you it seems to
have struck a nerve. Why is that?
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Yeah was just joking :) I love Mac bashing, comes from the ol Amiga days
 
Yeah was just joking :) I love Mac bashing, comes from the ol Amiga days
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Ahhhh, Amiga. I do remember those days. I long for my old Amiga 500. Too bad
the company was corrupt.
 
Refer to book: "How to Lie with Statistics" by Huff & Geis. By the way, 4.6%
was the percentage of Australians *estimated* to be gay, not openly gay,
back in 1986.

Remember, any curve can be approximated with a straight line of sufficient
thickness...
 
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