How is this taking advantage of *them*? Clearly, the Mac part only differs in the ROM image, which probably costs ATI only a few thousand to develop. Moreover, most of the cost for coding of Mac drivers and ROM images is covered by OEM development for Apple. Oh, wait... there's package design. Those elaborately different Mac designs must cost a fortune--they probably do the work on Windows.

On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Brian Stewart wrote:

One interesting note about "hacking" pc parts to work on a MAC is;

If we take advantage of these companies they will discontinue manufacturing macintosh parts. I think it is BULL that they charge 2x or 3x as much for a Mac part over the identical PC part. They should charge a respectable amount for their R&D, but how much is a respectable amount?

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