Re: FN-FORUM: To Quark or not to Quark...

date posted 8th August 2004 23:10

Just observations, as I know nothing about Mac's (yet) really, but..

Luke Perman wrote:
> from what i understand, you need to have two graphics cards - so that
> a monitor runs off each one... but i know apple are doing some funky
> stuff with GFX chips to enable multiple monitors - so you better
> check on that one.

That surprises me somewhat - afterall, Apple had multi-monitor setups
long, long before they were commonplace in the PC arena - at least to my
knowledge.. I remember seeing my first in 1996 (nice big 22" screen the
graphic designer had for layout - only B&W in those days though, the
colour selection was done on his 14" colour CRT. Still, it impressed me)

I thought they used pretty standard graphics chipsets anyhow? It was
certainly ATi at one point - and both ATi and nVidia have had
dual-head-single-card cards for some time now.. Odd.

Dave Edwards wrote:
> Nah ... You need a water cooled Pentium V running at 27 Ghz, 37 PCI
[snip]
> compromise his professional integrity ...

I'm sure I could think up a similar bit of trolling regarding Mac's, but
I won't..

I was interested to see the PC outperform the Mac on C5's Gadget Show in
a real-world test though (photoshop image manipulation), by some
considerable margin (Well, ok, seconds, not hours), and was cheaper.. Oh
and I can buy spares for a PC, but not for a Mac..

I would still like a nice Powerbook to play with, though, when I can
spare a couple of grand :/

Aaron