X800 XL Availability

by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/16/2004 11:54 PM EST
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  • anomymous - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link

    sex
  • Aquila76 - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

    How did you get to Marlborough without any traffic? Were you driving at 4:00am? I'm in Lowell and have to go there sometimes for my company. I don't sit stopped in traffic, but I'm usually in 'good company' on the way down 495.
  • Live - Sunday, December 19, 2004 - link

    9# This is a blog. Go to the forum with questions like that. Much bigger change of getting an answer there. http://forums.anandtech.com/
  • Anonymous - Sunday, December 19, 2004 - link

    From what #8 says, if they fixed up the drivers, then graphics would prolly kick butt on the mac.
  • The_Necromancer - Saturday, December 18, 2004 - link

    Hey, anyone whats the best gpu under $185
  • Jim - Saturday, December 18, 2004 - link

    Before you write your Mac GPU article, read this:
    http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&am...
    I did some testing on my G5 and PCs and others did as well for me. There is a major driver issue with OpenGL 'display list' performance. This is the technique used in most professional opengl applications and is the technique used in SPECViewPerf - which I also ran (Version 8). At high triangle counts, OS X on a G5 is 1/3 the speed or less then a high end PC with the same graphics card. Some of this shows up in the latest games and will really impact Doom 3. I 'Shark'ed the nvidia driver and it was full of stalls and even unknown assembly calls. When running OpenMark, 95% of the time was spend in Apple driver code and kernel. This is the one area where Apple is still WAY behind.
  • Jon - Saturday, December 18, 2004 - link

    It's about time you got around to another Mac article. An entire section, with just one article.
  • help_me_spock - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link

    There's an old saying, "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." That seems particularly true of video cards this year.

  • The_Necromancer - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link

    Naw, they where having an sales stunt 200 gig-hard dive for like $35 or something outrageous like that.

    The_Necromancer
  • Raven_Nights - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link

    WEll the best ati agp card my local best buy has is a 9800 pro :( but they do carry the pcie x700 pro so they should (meaning it be nice) carry the x800 xl if it is in volume. But best buy sucks anyways.
  • The_Necromancer - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link

    yes a x800xl would be nice but x800 xt platinum edition would be better, but i will have to settle for a 9800 pro... to bad :-(

    The_Necromancer
  • klah - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link

    An X800XL would be nice for Chrismas, but since we have to wait until January I will settle for a Programming Forum ;)

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid...
  • Vivan - Friday, December 17, 2004 - link

    Always a good idea to take someone with you on the highway, so you can sneak into the HOV lane :D

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