Greetings: The excitement of replacing a geriatric pc with a new Powermac has been tempered by the discovery that my graphics card may have an identity issue. The Mac I ordered is supposed to contain an optional ATI Radeon graphics card, the 9650, which has 256mb. and is able to drive the 30" Apple display, which I don't own but hope to acquire in the future. The standard issue card, the 9600, has 128 mb and does not support the 30" display. In system profiler, the card is listed as ATI Radeon 9600 but the specs match the 9650. Identical reports abound on discussion boards. People who know more than I (i.e. most people) speculate that Apple just forgot to change the name of the card, which seems logical but behavior unbecoming a computer builder that is not operating out of a backyard shed. How would I know if they did the reverse, changing the specs but not the card? Since I don't have the 30" display and know next to nothing about computers or their innards, I am at a loss. Maybe imprecision is just an Apple thing or perhaps a California thing. It just seems odd that an object so meticulously designed and packaged is so ambiguous about what's inside.
Thanks for any suggestions. Randy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050518/d3a07661/attachment.html
