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ATI PC video card on Mac
Name: computers-are-cool (by Luke) Date: October 30, 2000 at 02:27:14 Pacific
Comment:
An ATI rage II PC video card can work on Macintosh? (PowerPC 9600)
Not necessarily that a PC card won't have them, but if the manufacturer doesn't supply the driver, then the card won't work. One example to this is the Voodoo 5. There was not Mac driver for it a while ago, yet there was one for the PC since it came out (obviously). Now there is a Mac driver (beta, albeit), but the hardware is the same. So just because the card came out in the PC or the Mac first does not mean it won't work on the other platform. You just need to push the company to deliver the drivers. As for the Rage Pro II, I think it might be too late now, since they're concentrating on the Radeon for both PC and Mac.
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