April 17, 2008, 2:54 PM
The reason I will never buy a Mac desktop
Posted by Julio Franco. Filed under: apple, blog, hardware, interesting links, thumbs down
While browsing around this morning I stumbled upon this bit of news: “Apple released a new graphics upgrade kit today.” For those Mac Pro users out there (that is, the tower desktop system, not the laptop) can now upgrade to a GeForce 8800GT for about x1.5 the actual price of the card, ain’t those wonderful news?
From Macrumors.com:
When Apple released the Early 2008 Mac Pro, they offered the NVIDIA 8800GT as an upgrade option, however due to firmware issues, the 8800GT was not compatible with previous generation Mac Pros — until today.
And here’s a reaction by a Mac Pro owner, taken from Apple’s website:
YES! We all know how good this card is and 1st Gen Mac Pro owners can now use it…
Hooray!
Perhaps you may want to grab an overpriced memory upgrade kit from the manufacturer as well?
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While browsing around this morning I stumbled upon this bit of news: “Apple released a new graphics upgrade kit today.” For those Mac Pro users out there (that is, the tower desktop system, not the laptop) can now upgrade to a GeForce 8800GT for about x1.5 the actual price of the card, ain’t those wonderful news?
From Macrumors.com:
When Apple released the Early 2008 Mac Pro, they offered the NVIDIA 8800GT as an upgrade option, however due to firmware issues, the 8800GT was not compatible with previous generation Mac Pros — until today.
And here’s a reaction by a Mac Pro owner, taken from Apple’s website:
YES! We all know how good this card is and 1st Gen Mac Pro owners can now use it…
Hooray!
Perhaps you may want to grab an overpriced memory upgrade kit from the manufacturer as well?
$280?! with the latest cuts prices are as low as $120, so that means a more than double premium!
GTS 512s are as low as $250 and there are some 9800GTXs selling for as low as $300!
Anyone that would pay such a premium just to use OS X is either out of his mind or too rich ;)
If it comes from Apple of course it will be overpriced. Are there cards available from 3rd party manufacturers?