shriek Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 It just crossed my mind... Th oSX installation on my laptop have these 2 main issues that annoys me: lack of wireless support (mini-PCI based) and lack of widescreen/QE/CI/etc (onBoard Radeon Xpress 200M). I was wondering if I could then ditch the wireless card to install a OSX supported miniPCI graphic card... I mean... a graphic card that is known for working... then I could use some USB or PCMCIA card for wifi... what do you think? do you know of any good miniPCI Graphic card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15355-minipci-graphic-card-for-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 are there ANY (mini)PCI graphic cards on the market? you graphic card is AGP/PCIe. If such card exist it will be MUCH slower that your current ATI in VESA mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15355-minipci-graphic-card-for-osx86/#findComment-98478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
overmonk Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 are there ANY (mini)PCI graphic cards on the market? you graphic card is AGP/PCIe. If such card exist it will be MUCH slower that your current ATI in VESA mode. I'm pretty sure that there is no such animal. Even with PCI video cards, the VGA/DVI out is ON the card, ie, the output is generated and delivered at the card itself, not routed back to an onboard VGA port. I've certainly never seen a VGA port on the base of a laptop. The only things I've seen on MiniPCI are wifi and modem cards. I had a very old Dell with a PCMCIA video accelerator, but that was eons ago, back in Pentium I days. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15355-minipci-graphic-card-for-osx86/#findComment-98484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriek Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 ya... you're right, I did a quick search and found a ATI miniPCI graphic card and got over-excited... it is a years-old card with 16mb ram... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15355-minipci-graphic-card-for-osx86/#findComment-98542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayland Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 ya... you're right, I did a quick search and found a ATI miniPCI graphic card and got over-excited... it is a years-old card with 16mb ram... If you think about it, where is the video out going to be? A little dingy hanging over the side. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15355-minipci-graphic-card-for-osx86/#findComment-98618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 but with the new PCI Express standard on the laptop, it would be possible to have minipci 9200 or GF4 MX or something similar. Of course low end, but better than a 855 for sure Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15355-minipci-graphic-card-for-osx86/#findComment-98663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shriek Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 ya, I thought about the video out... but in this case I would sacrifice the access to the video out plug since I never use it... well, it really seems I can: either sell my turion and buy a mac/centrino or I can wait for broader compatibility Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15355-minipci-graphic-card-for-osx86/#findComment-99174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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