Myrddin, I think all of your points are right on the mark. Clearly ATI's decision on the Radeon 7000 is a marketing decision, which is to be expected--and we certainly want them to make enough profit to stay in business. In terms of the hardware, the card cleary works with unsupported Macs in OS X, since people have gotten it going (and accelerated at that). So really it is a software question--ATI would have to write a modified driver for these machines and that, in itself, would probably be a relatively simple task. AND they would clearly make profit by selling cards to those people. So why haven't they? My guess would be that they have looked at it and feel that it would probably involve too much headache with customer support--Apple or software companies make changes down the road and then the card doesn't work again. However, I, like others, wish they would make a try at it.
There's no doubt there will be frustrations trying to make our machines work and I, for one, have had a lot of fun trying. As you said, "Excellent people, starting with Ryan, are donating their time to make it possible for people to run X to the maximum on unsupported machines." The people with Beige G3's are probably more legitimately upset about lack of support, but for us, running OS X really is all bonus. Ted -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
