[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp

[Robert Ameeti]

At 6:54 PM -0700, 4/6/06, Kunga wrote:

>I IMed with Parallels this afternoon and they said that 3-D support 
>will be in their 3.0 version this summer. Said it's simply a matter 
>of getting driver info from the card manufacturers that are in the 
>Macs.

If they said this, then they haven't had much experience in this 
business. What makes them think that the video card manufacturers 
will tell them anything about the card? This is all proprietary 
stuff. The card mfgs couldn't care less about Parallels. If Parallels 
succeeds or fails, it won't affect the card manufacturers at all. 
Businesses don't give away information unless there is an upside for 
them.

Apple, on the other hand, buys the cards from the mfg. The mfg is 
interested in Apple being happy. And that is why the card mfg helped 
Apple create a driver for Apple to use in Boot Camp. But I'm not 
seeing any reason why the mfg would just say sure Parallels, go ahead 
and use the driver that we designed for Apple.
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Robert Ameeti

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