ATI RADEON 9000 PRO Mac Edition

Advantages: Quick n' Quiet, Passive cooling
Disadvantages: Not as fast as XT equivilents

...The ATi Radeon 9600 is in my opinion one of the greatest advances in modern GFX technology. Yet it seems to have completly passed most people by. I used to be asked what the best Graphics card would be for a quiet system, and now I always say the Radeon 9600 non-pro. The reasons? It is completly passive, it will work in pretty much any case as long as there is some air flow. It's a Direct-X 9 core, so it will play most of the modern upcoming games, and has all the nice pixel shader effects, bump mapping etc. It's surprisingly fast. This is where I think most people don't really appreciate what a brilliant piece of engineering this was on ATis part. In a reasonably fast system say 2.8ghz P4 with 1024mb ram, you can expect scores of about 9000-11000 in 3DMark 2001SE. To give you an idea of comparison, a radeon 9700 will get... Read review

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Advantages: pure mac power with a good screen
Disadvantages: software is too hard to get at times

...Powered by a 2.0 dual-core Intel engine. Up to five times the speed of the PowerBook G4. MacBook Pro is built with intel Core Duo - which packs the power of two processors (up to 2.16GHz) inside a single chip. high performance graphics what i have come to expect from my Mac's. From the box It's the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive, and the ATI Mobility Radeon. Setup was easy my first mac that i could use without the problems of setting. Installing my printer was a breeze and the sound and clear visibility of the screen is much better then my previous mac. This is a ideal mac for people who generally want ease of use, and a great laptop from apple in general. Would suit a student who needs macs pure music or graphics capability Mac's rule in that category... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to install, Good price, Great image quality
Disadvantages: Much cheaper in USA

...warned! I had decided to upgrade my old graphics card from an ATI Radeon 7000 to the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro with 128 MB DDR SDRAM. I wasn't having many problems with my old graphics card but I wanted to expand the 3D capabilities of my gaming and edit graphics/photos. Seeing as I have a reasonably fast computer (3.2 Gig Hz Pentium 4) with 1 Gig of RAM, I realized that the card, with only 32 MB of DDR SDRAM was the only thing I would need to optimise. I'm not going to bore you too much like most reviews on graphics cards which tend to focus on frames per second, refresh rates etc. The type of mumbo jumbo info, while really important to die hard gamers, is useless to the majority of us. I am going to try and focus on image quality which is more important to you graphics designers and photographers out there. Installation was real easy I had... Read review

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