[CUBE] Video cards, again...

[Michael Blossom]

Here's my understanding:  All of the Nvidia cards are Apple OEM cards; 
in other words, they are supported by Apple, but only for computers in 
which they were available as an option.  In Sawtooth Macs (including 
the Cube), the Nvidia 4MX was never available as an option.  The 4MX 
worked with Quartz Extreme in those computers anyway, when they were 
running Jaguar, but with Panther it does not, and Apple has no 
responsibility to make it work, since they never offered that card in 
those Macs.

The 4MX still works with Quartz Extreme in all Macs with which the 4MX 
was available as an option.


On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 22:38:57 -0600, Michael W. Sumbera wrote:
> That's curious.  Quoting from 
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme/
> 
> "Quartz Extreme Requirements
> Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video 
> GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, or GeForce4 Ti or 
> any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required."
> 
> On Dec 6, 2003, at 10:24 PM, Michael Blossom wrote:
> 
>> I emailed OWC to ask that very question.  They wrote back and said it
>> wouldn't run Quartz Extreme.
>> 
>> - M
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:57:15 -0800, Leo Baghdassarian wrote:
>>>>  I think the GeForce 4MX would be good, except for one thing:
>>>>  It won't run Quartz Extreme if you're on Panther.  See:
>>>> 
>>>>  <http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=/hardwar
>>> eandnews/nvidia103/nvidia103.html>
>>> 
>>> Is that only for older Sawtooth PowerMacs?  (maybe the cube is not
>>> effected?)
>>> 
>>> LB