ATI introduces 5 new video cards

I think you'll continue to see Apple use ATI cards. First of all a driver progression exists. Second, ATI has been (to some degree) committed to having its cards in Macs for a long time. They've laid out at least some capital to help develop an EFI/BIOS compatible platform and it will take several generations of cards sold on a Mac for them to recoup this investment. Furthermore, at this point, until the next monster from ATI hits with its 64 pipelines (what a crazy number), there is little need for any tweaking from ATI to anything aside from adding a 128k EEPROM to the card and flashing is appropriately for a Mac.

I do think that, like the [H] guys said, ATI has somewhat shot itself in the foot as far as the PC user goes in that the X1300XT and the X1650 Pro have MSRP's which are only $10 apart. Retail prices will likely only differ from $0-$25 so for most customers it will be a no-brainer to step up to the X1650 Pro. For systems developers, builders, or integrators, there may be a more compelling price reason to choose the X1300XT but by and large I think that segment is mostly dead.

Nice. I have converted to ATI totally from Nvidia. I just wonder when the ATI drivers for OSX Intel are coming?

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I never had Nvidia and it was Linux users always telling me nvidia was the best.

I had a radeon 9250 pro , then when I was doing some upgrades in May for OSX

I was thinking either the 6600gt, x1600 or x800gto. So I went with the x1600pro

and you guys know the good results its been giving on osx. I'm not a hardcore gamer

so gaming with the x1600 previously was a pleasure (The GodFather) which i was playing

when i first got the card and haven't gamed lately but will start looking into it again.

I guess, apple will stick to ATi and don't kick them out and will only sell macs with nvidia graphics. You can order the new mac pro with an ATi x1900xt, so i dont see there any trouble for ati. But nvidia drivers for Mac OS X x86 will be good for our users, u dont run ati cards.

I would like to see nVidia cards in Macs as they have better OpenGL performance than ATI cards, and because ATI's drivers for Windows, Linux, and presumably OS X are half-assed, but ATI probably bought them out. NVidia cards consistently get better framerates than ATI on OpenGL-based games like Quake 4, and OS X only uses OpenGL for its graphics (Quartz Extreme is using OpenGL to do GUI drawing...that's why they can add more effects without slowing down the computer), so it should be a no-brainer. I'm guessing that OS X ATI drivers are probably not that optimized because Macs are still a portion of ATI's market.

i wouldnt mind more support for nVidia cards. Ati is nice too. I actually like them both.

There are no news about new mobile GPUs?