01-08-2008, 07:47 PM
This is dreaming...
But it sure would be nice to be able to buy a newer video card for a 1st gen Mac Pro without costing $400 or more.
I see Apple is using PCIe 2.0; this should be backwards compatible with the 1st gen Mac Pro.
If ATI or nVidia would price their cards more in line with PC cards; Mac users would buy. I don't buy the excuse that it costs them more. Write a driver. Or just flash the damn cards like people on eBay are doing (except I haven't seen many for the Mac Pro).
But it sure would be nice to be able to buy a newer video card for a 1st gen Mac Pro without costing $400 or more.
I see Apple is using PCIe 2.0; this should be backwards compatible with the 1st gen Mac Pro.
If ATI or nVidia would price their cards more in line with PC cards; Mac users would buy. I don't buy the excuse that it costs them more. Write a driver. Or just flash the damn cards like people on eBay are doing (except I haven't seen many for the Mac Pro).